Municipal water, energy, and wastewater infrastructure operator across Germany
GELSENWASSER AG operates water, energy, and wastewater systems for German municipalities and industrial customers. The tech stack reveals a hybrid legacy-to-cloud posture: core infrastructure runs on Windows Server, SQL Server, and SAP (including SAP IS-U for utilities billing), while the engineering team is actively building on Azure with Terraform and modern CI/CD pipelines. Active adoption of Azure Landing Zones and projects around platform modernization and automated deployments suggest a deliberate shift toward infrastructure-as-code and standardization—critical for a public-sector utility managing thousands of networked assets.
Notable leadership hires: Automation Lead
Founded in 1887, GELSENWASSER AG is a public utility company headquartered in Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, with approximately 1,500 employees. The company provides end-to-end infrastructure management across three core services: drinking water supply, energy distribution, and wastewater treatment. Customers include municipalities, industrial operators, and commercial clients across Germany. Revenue streams span network operations, asset maintenance, energy trading optimization, and M&A activity in regional utility consolidation. The hiring profile—dominated by engineering and operations roles, with a notable number of intern and early-career placements—reflects ongoing workforce renewal in a capital-intensive, aging-infrastructure sector.
Core infrastructure: Windows Server, SQL Server, SAP (including SAP IS-U for utility billing), SCADA, and Siemens S7 PLCs. Cloud platform: Azure, Terraform, Power Platform, and Microsoft Fabric. Data/lab: Python, C#, LC-MS, GC-MS for water quality analysis. Active modernization toward Azure Landing Zones and CI/CD automation.
Core projects include Azure platform development, Azure Landing Zones modernization, CI/CD pipeline design, automated platform development, and infrastructure standardization. Operational focus areas: wastewater treatment plant management, network load-curve data transmission, and M&A due diligence tied to utility consolidation activity.
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