Cloud Solution Architect - Infrastructure Automation (PowerShell/DSC)

Penta Consulting are a technology service provider and leading outsourced partner helping to deliver professional and managed solutions across EMEA.

We are supporting a well esteemed client of ours searching for a Cloud Solution Architect in Germany.

Role Overview:

• We are seeking a highly experienced automation engineer with deep hands on experience in PowerShell and Desired State Configuration (DSC) to design and deliver Infrasturcture-as-Code solutions.

• The role is engineering-heavy and focuses on building and operating production-grade automation frameworks, DSC resources/configurations, and CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps/GitHub for hybrid and cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Engineer and maintain production-grade PowerShell automation (functions, modules, packaging, versioning, release management) with an emphasis on reliability, maintainability, and re-use.

• Design, author, and troubleshoot DSC resources and configurations (idempotent behavior; correct Get/Test/Set; LCM troubleshooting; drift detection and remediation).

• Build and operate CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation using Azure DevOps and/or GitHub (PR workflows, gated builds, artifact publishing, environment promotion).

• Troubleshoot complex PowerShell/DSC issues end-to-end (VS Code debugging, logging/telemetry, remoting, authentication, runspaces, and execution policy constraints).

• Translate customer requirements into an automation architecture and implementation plan (scope, assumptions, constraints, and operational model) and deliver through workshops/advisory and hands-on implementation.

Required Technical Skills:

• Strong software-engineering background in infrastructure automation using PowerShell

• Deep Git + platform skills: proven hands-on experience with GitHub and/or Azure DevOps

• DSC engineering experience: authoring and operating DSC resources/configurations with correct idempotent behavior; troubleshooting LCM execution and configuration drift; experience with at least one of: class-based DSC resources, script-based resources, or DSC v3/DSC CLI concepts.

• Windows fundamentals: solid knowledge of Windows Server administration and core platform services (e.g., Active Directory, certificates/PKI, networking basics), sufficient to automate and troubleshoot them.

• Microsoft365DSC (preferred) or demonstrable ability to ramp up quickly with prior DSC module/resource development.

• Customer-facing delivery: ability to run technical workshops, capture requirements, propose an architecture, and deliver/hand over automation assets in a structured way.