Cloud Engineer for AI Solutions (m/f/d)

About the role

BASF Digital Hub Madrid is looking for a Cloud Engineer for AI Solutions within its AI Solutions for Supply Chains team. You will support and evolve the strategic platforms SCIP (Supply Chain Intelligence Platform) and SCIPPY (Supply Chain Intelligent Planning Agent), ensuring secure, reliable and scalable cloud operations while enabling innovation in advanced analytics, GenAI, agentic AI and digital supply chain solutions. The position is based in Madrid with a hybrid work model.

Key responsibilities

• Own the architecture, operation and continuous improvement of the Azure cloud platform behind BASF's AI-driven supply chain solutions.
• Operate, maintain and improve the SCIP and SCIPPY platforms.
• Design and implement scalable Azure cloud infrastructure and automate deployment, configuration and monitoring.
• Ensure platform reliability, security, availability and performance.
• Support product teams in deploying analytics, AI and GenAI solutions and contribute to agentic AI and next-generation supply chain capabilities.
• Collaborate with global teams across business, data, AI and engineering domains.

Required profile

• Master's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science or a related field, or a Bachelor's degree with several years of relevant experience.
• 3+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure and operations in production environments, and 3+ years in cloud engineering, platform engineering and/or DevOps.
• At least 2 years of hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, IaC, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, and supporting business-critical platforms.
• Fluent English is essential.
• Nice to have: experience with Generative AI or machine learning platforms, and understanding of supply chain or logistics processes.

Required skills

• Microsoft Azure, Azure DevOps, Terraform or Bicep, GitHub Actions, Docker and Kubernetes
• CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, observability, incident management and FinOps principles
• Azure Databricks, Azure AI Services, LLMs and GenAI solutions

What we offer

• Flexible work schedule and home-office options
• Learning and development opportunities
• 25 holiday days per year plus 5 additional days
• Relocation assistance to Madrid
• International team and global projects