Cuculus
Smart Grid · Energy Management
7open roles
1backers · Future Energy Ventures GmbH
$361kgrants · 2 grants · CORDIS
50+team · employees, estimated range
Overview
We provide cutting-edge software solutions that address energy management challenges of utilities worldwide.
Key facts
As of Nov 13, 2026, Alion lists 7 open roles at Cuculus. Cuculus is headquartered in Ilmenau, Germany.
- Open roles
- 7Job postings Alion tracks, as of Nov 13, 2026
- Headquarters
- Ilmenau, GermanyAlion company profile, updated Nov 12, 2026
- Employees
- 50+Alion company profile, an estimated range
- Technologies in its job postings
- 58Named in its job postings
How Cuculus hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Cuculus scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 4 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Funding and backers
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
7
open roles
Grants
$361k
2 grants · CORDIS
Backers
1
Future Energy Ventures GmbH
Momentum
15/100
in the news
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Funding rounds
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
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Jobs
≈ $71k – $125k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree · Erfurt
Java
Kotlin
PostgreSQL
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
AI Agents
DevOps
Rest API
OpenShift
CI/CD
Kubernetes
Cybersecurity
ISO 27001
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≈ $61k – $109k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Leipzig
Python
Bash
OpenSearch
DevOps
Terraform
Ansible
OpenShift
Helm
GitHub Actions
Kustomize
Prometheus
GitLab CI
Azure
CI/CD
GitOps
ArgoCD
Jenkins
AWS
Kubernetes
Grafana
Platform Engineering
Amazon EKS
Azure AKS
FinOps
IAM
Amazon CloudWatch
Linux
DNS
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≈ $60k – $108k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree · Leipzig
Python
PowerShell
Bash
Terraform
Ansible
Red Hat
Debian
Azure
CI/CD
Docker
Ubuntu
Bicep
GitLab
Linux
DNS
Cybersecurity
Keycloak
ISO 27001
GDPR
Least Privilege
Microsoft Entra ID
LDAP
SIEM
Management
Confluence
Jira
ITIL
Apply
≈ $9k – $23k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Bengaluru
Python
JavaScript
Groovy
PostgreSQL
Oracle
Apache Kafka
DevOps
Rest API
Prometheus
CI/CD
Kubernetes
Grafana
QA
JMeter
k6
Apply
≈ $9k – $24k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · Bengaluru
JavaScript
TypeScript
Rest API
GitLab CI
Azure
CI/CD
Jenkins
Git
AWS
Docker
Management
Agile
Scrum
QA
TestRail
Playwright
Apply
≈ $19k – $43k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree · Bengaluru
Python
Azure
AWS
Kubernetes
Linux
Apply
≈ $21k – $46k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bengaluru
Python
SQL
Bash
Cython
Bottleneck
Databases
PostgreSQL
Oracle
ClickHouse
DevOps
Terraform
Ansible
GitHub Actions
Prometheus
Azure
CI/CD
Jenkins
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Grafana
Incident Management
GitLab
Linux
Management
Jira
ITSM
Apply
Growth
Hiring Momentum
21/100
Hiring freeze
Open positions
7
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
160 days
faster than 7% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~10 hours
11/12/2026
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
DevOps
40% ▲
Backend
20% ▲
Support
20% ▲
Management
20% ▲
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Cuculus over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
58
Postings analysed
8
Stack modernity
69/100
Languages
Python
Bash
JavaScript
PowerShell
Frameworks & libraries
Playwright
Databases
PostgreSQL
Oracle
OpenSearch
Cloud & platforms
Linux
Kubernetes
Azure
AWS
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58 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Connections
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Shared investors
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Same company
Same group
Likely
Shared investors
News
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Powering the Utility Future: Insights from Cuculus Friends 2025
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Cuculus Friends Event 2025 Gathers Utility Leaders at Allianz Arena
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Cuculus CEO Featured in "Smart Talks": On Future-Proofing Utility Security
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Cuculus Celebrates 100th Session of Friday Lectures
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Cuculus participated at Middle East Energy Fair in Dubai
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Cuculus Contributes to High-Level ESMIG Discussions on Europe's Energy Future
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
4
Hiring now
3
Countries
2
Busiest office
Bengaluru
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Ilmenau
Germany
HQ
Bengaluru
India
Engineering / R&D
Office in India
4 open roles 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for QA, Data Science, DevOps
Bengaluru, Karnataka 560092
Leipzig
Germany
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for DevOps
Erfurt
Germany
1 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Backend
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