Our client is looking for a Senior Azure cloud engineer – Consumer Centricity
Service Request:
We are seeking a Senior Azure cloud engineer (min 5 years of experience in the domain) to join our Engineering chapter team. You will play a critical role in deploying, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting cloud platforms and services in the Consumer Centricity product organization. The role involves hands-on infrastructure management, scripting, automation, incident management, and adherence to company policies and best practices. You are working within a cross-functional team to improve systems and processes and ensure uptime and efficiency.
Key Responsibilities:
- Cloud Deployment & Configuration: Provision and configure resources in public cloud platforms, following standardized deployment models.
- Automation & Scripting: Create and maintain templates and automation workflows for repeatable tasks and process optimization.
- Security & Compliance: Propose, implement and maintain cloud security measures, including firewalls, encryption, and identity management in line with company guidelines and market best practices.
- Operational Maintenance: Regularly monitor, patch, and update cloud services, and workloads to ensure reliability and security and reduce technical debt.
- Incident Management: Respond to and resolve operational incidents related to cloud infrastructure, performing root cause analysis and implementing preventive measures.
- Documentation: Maintain service and operational documentation, updating as environments and processes evolve.
- Collaboration & Support: Work closely with product owners, developers, and other IT profiles to manage infrastructure and support deployments. Mentor junior engineers and guide them through operational tasks and tooling.
- Continuous Improvement: Propose enhancements based on operational experience and new technical capabilities, focusing on reliability, efficiency, and cost management.
Qualifications:
- Experience: Minimum of 5 years in cloud engineering with extensive experience in Microsoft Azure.
Certifications:
- AZ-104 – Azure Administrator Associate or higher
- (Optional) AZ-700 – Azure Network engineer associate
- (Optional) AZ-500 – Azure Security engineer associate
- KCNA – Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate
- (Optional) CKA – Kubernetes Certified Administrator
Technical Skills:
- Cloud concepts: Landing zone, Cloud adoption framework, regulatory frameworks (ISO, NIS2, …)
- Azure: Advanced Azure networking knowledge (Vnets, NSG, Hub&spoke model, Azure firewall, Private endpoints, WAF, …)
- Strong experience in Azure governance (Management groups, EntraID, PIM, Azure policies), cost management.
- Knowledge of security principles and tools (Azure Defender)
- Databases: Azure SQL, MongoDB.
- IaC : Terraform HCL scripting for infrastructure deployment and maintenance.
- CI/CD : Azure DevOps toolset (repositories, pipelines, …), ArgoCD.
- Containers: Extensive experience with Kubernetes.
- Monitoring: Strong experience with Monitoring, logging and alerting tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Opentelemetry)
Soft Skills:
- Leadership mindset to foster collaboration, encourage initiative, and drive growth in cloud infrastructure maturity.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical abilities.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities.
- Agile way of working and at ease with cross-functional team structure.
- Languages: English (C1).
Advantageous, but not required:
- Experience with following technologies: Azure API Management, Kong.
- Experience with the following cloud technologies : Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Languages: French (B1), Dutch (B1).
