Cloud Engineer

Murata; Hoofddorp; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Murata in Hoofddorp, Netherlands, seeks a Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and maintain our cloud environment, ensuring availability, security, performance, and stability.

You will work with AWS and other public clouds, apply Infrastructure as Code, automate services, and collaborate with internal teams to optimize costs and reliability.

Join a team focused on scalable, secure cloud solutions in a hybrid environment and contribute to ongoing migration and cost-optimization initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field; or equivalent professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, administer, and maintain production and non-production cloud environments.
• Monitor availability, performance, capacity, security, and operational health.
• Investigate and resolve cloud infrastructure incidents and perform root-cause analysis.
• Manage cloud services, access rights, networking, OS, backups, and monitoring.
• Implement cloud infrastructure changes using automation and Infrastructure as Code.
• Maintain documentation, diagrams, runbooks, and procedures.
• Support cloud migration, disaster recovery, and cost optimization.
• Collaborate with internal teams and cloud providers.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Incident management

Automation/Scripting

Hybrid infrastructure

Public cloud experience

IaC

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in IT/CS or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

AWS

CloudFormation

Job description

The Cloud Engineer is responsible for the design, implementation, administration, operation, and maintenance of the company’s cloud environment. The role ensures the availability, security, performance, and stability of cloud services and develops reliable cloud infrastructure solutions using automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, administer, and maintain production and non-production cloud environments.
• Monitor availability, performance, capacity, security, and operational health.
• Investigate and resolve cloud infrastructure incidents and perform root-cause analysis.
• Manage cloud services, access rights, networking, operating systems, backups, and monitoring.
• Implement cloud infrastructure changes using automation and Infrastructure as Code.
• Maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, runbooks, and operational procedures.
• Support cloud migration, disaster recovery, cost optimization, and service-improvement activities.
• Collaborate with internal teams, external providers, and cloud service providers.

Qualifications

• Completed Bachelor or Master in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field; or equivalent professional experience.

Required Skills

• Minimum two years of experience in cloud engineering, cloud operations, system administration, or a comparable infrastructure role.
• Practical experience designing, implementing, and operating cloud compute, storage, networking, identity, monitoring, and backup services.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, automation, or scripting technologies.
• Working knowledge of traditional on-premises infrastructure, including server operating systems, networking, DNS, identity services, virtualization, storage, backup and monitoring, sufficient to support hybrid environments and cloud migrations.
• Experience with incident management, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
• Ability to work independently and communicate effectively with relevant stakeholders.
• Practical experience with AWS or another public cloud platform.