Azure Stack & AI Infra Consultant - Client-Facing, Flexible

Sia; Netherlands; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NS Business Card

Training opportunities

Flexible work model

International projects

Job summary

Sia invites a Microsoft/Azure Stack Engineer to join the Data Science & AI team as a consultant. You will design and build Azure infrastructure, advise on cloud strategy, and showcase AI demos on Azure Foundry for client opportunities.

This role emphasizes client exposure and hands-on infrastructure leadership. Ideal candidates have 3+ years of Azure production experience, strong IaC and CI/CD skills, and fluency in Dutch and English.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure in a production environment.
• Ability to travel for client work within the Benelux.
• Fluent in Dutch and English; strong communication for client-facing engagements.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with client teams and stakeholders as a consultant, explaining technical trade-offs and architecture decisions in plain language.
• Design and implement Azure infrastructure, including networking, compute, storage, and identity components (Azure AD/Entra ID, VNets, App Services, AKS).
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions to support infrastructure-as-code deployments (Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates).
• Manage and optimize Microsoft 365 and Azure governance, including security baselines, cost management, and compliance controls.
• Build demos and proofs of concept on Azure AI Foundry to support business development and potential client work.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure issues across hybrid and cloud-native environments.
• Advise clients on cloud migration strategy, landing zone design, and the Azure Well-Architected Framework.
• Collaborate with client IT teams, architects, and Sia consultants to deliver technical roadmaps and implementation plans.
• Document architecture decisions, runbooks, and operational procedures.
• Depending on seniority, mentor junior engineers and contribute to internal capability building within the Azure and AI practice.

Skills

Azure expertise

Client-facing consultant

CI/CD tooling

Scripting: PowerShell/Python

IaC: Terraform/Bicep/ARM

Entra ID/Azure AD

Dutch language

English language

Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions

Architecture decision leadership

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

PowerShell

Python

Job description

Sia invites a Microsoft/Azure Stack Engineer to join the Data Science & AI team as a consultant. You will design and build Azure infrastructure, advise on cloud strategy, and showcase AI demos on Azure Foundry for client opportunities.

This role emphasizes client exposure and hands-on infrastructure leadership. Ideal candidates have 3+ years of Azure production experience, strong IaC and CI/CD skills, and fluency in Dutch and English.