Azure Cloud Engineer, Principal - Transformation Leader

Elevation Group; Den Haag; On-site; EUR 111,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Gross annual salary up to €123,000

Vitality Budget €50/month

NS travel card / bicycle lease option

On-call/standby compensation

Job summary

Elevation Group is seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer (Azure) to lead a major cloud transformation for a growing SaaS platform in the Delft region. You will build infrastructure yourself, coach engineers, and drive the multi-cloud strategy with a focus on 24/7 uptime.

You will own end-to-end infrastructure projects, work with architects and product owners, and guide teams in Terraform, Kubernetes/AKS, and on-call improvements in a fast-paced, agile environment.

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of experience as a Cloud Engineer in production environments.
• Depth in Kubernetes and Terraform with hands-on leadership during cloud transitions.
• Broad Azure experience (networking, compute, storage) and ability to start immediately.

Responsibilities

• Drive transition from legacy on-prem to modern multi-cloud on Azure.
• Guide engineers in Terraform modules, AKS clusters, and production issue resolution.
• Align architectural decisions across five engineering teams to avoid conflicts.
• Own end-to-end infrastructure transformation projects from design to go-live.
• Collaborate with architect and product owner to map cloud solutions to business goals.
• Contribute to smarter on-call processes and improve alerting and incident follow-up.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

Azure

Leadership

Tools

Influx

VictoriaMetrics

Nagios

Job description

Elevation Group is seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer (Azure) to lead a major cloud transformation for a growing SaaS platform in the Delft region. You will build infrastructure yourself, coach engineers, and drive the multi-cloud strategy with a focus on 24/7 uptime.

You will own end-to-end infrastructure projects, work with architects and product owners, and guide teams in Terraform, Kubernetes/AKS, and on-call improvements in a fast-paced, agile environment.