European internet and cloud services conglomerate with 28M+ customers
United Internet AG operates a sprawling portfolio of consumer and enterprise internet brands (1&1, GMX, WEB.DE, IONOS, STRATO) across Europe, serving 28 million customers plus 40 million ad-financed accounts. The tech stack is enterprise-heavy—SAP (R/3, FI, CO, MM, SD, BW), Azure, Kubernetes, Hyper-V—with active migration to SAP S/4HANA and cloud readiness transformation underway. Hiring is skewed toward finance and operations roles (9 of 18), not engineering (1), suggesting post-acquisition integration or cost-control consolidation rather than product velocity.
United Internet AG is a publicly traded German internet conglomerate founded in 1988, headquartered in Montabaur. The company operates multiple well-known consumer and business brands including 1&1 (broadband, hosting, registrar), GMX (email), WEB.DE (portal), IONOS (cloud and VPS), STRATO (hosting), and 1&1 Versatel (fiber and 5G infrastructure). Globally, 11,000 employees serve the customer base, with 3,800 dedicated to product, engineering, and data center operations. The business model spans domain registration, managed hosting, cloud services, fiber-optic networks, and emerging 5G mobile infrastructure. Current operational priorities include kubernetes infrastructure scaling, cloud service positioning (especially IONOS as a sovereign cloud provider), SAP financial system modernization, and SLA compliance across service delivery.
Linux, Kubernetes, Terraform, Python, Bash, SAP (R/3, FI, CO, MM, SD, BW), Azure, Microsoft Defender suite, Active Directory, Hyper-V, Checkmk monitoring, Jira. Currently migrating to SAP S/4HANA.
Around 11,000 globally; 3,800 work in product management, development, and data centers. 18 active job openings as of last update.
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