Cloud Engineer

Doghouse Recruitment; Rotterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Doghouse Recruitment represents a leading SaaS company seeking engineers with 5+ years in Microsoft-heavy infrastructure. The role focuses on Windows server environments, SQL, and modern IaC practices across multi-cloud platforms. You will build automation, CI/CD pipelines, and maintain critical cloud infrastructure.

We value self-starters who can work independently in a fast-paced cloud-first setting, driving improvements and efficiency across operations and development teams in the Netherlands.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in traditional infrastructure and Microsoft-heavy environments.
• Experience with Windows OS, SQL, Terraform, PowerShell, Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, YAML.
• Experience with IaC: Terraform, ARM, Biceps or similar.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve cloud infrastructure and automation in a multi-cloud setup.
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines and IaC practices.
• Collaborate with cloud platform teams to optimize operations and reduce manual work.
• Proactive self-driven optimization and automation initiatives.

Skills

Microsoft Windows

SQL Server

CI/CD mindset

Self-starter

Independent engineer

Tools

Terraform

ARM templates

Biceps

Azure DevOps

PowerShell

CI/CD pipelines

YAML

Job description

Our client is one of the biggest SaaS organizations in the world within the accountancy

domain. The company provides accountancy software for small and mid-size companies and

are one of the market leaders in their niche. They have over 600,000 customers all over the

globe and in the Netherlands, they have the biggest market share.

In the last years the organization transitioned their legacy set-up to the cloud, moving the

legacy applications mainly to AWS and Azure platforms. They also acquired

some smaller companies and integrated these in their infrastructure. The cloud platform

team is responsible for the different cloud environments running the SaaS business

applications (no office IT). The migration has been mainly lift and shift and currently the

team is leveraging predominantly IaaS from the cloud providers. Currently the team spends 50% on operations and daily maintenance and can spend 50% on improvement and automation projects.

We are looking for engineers who bring:

• 5+ years experience working with traditional infrastructure, systems, storage, etc. in Microsoft-heavy environments (and experience working with core Microsoft components like OS, PowerShell, IIS, SQL)
• 5+ years experience working with Microsoft-heavy environments (Windows OS, SQL, Terraform, PowerShell, Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, YAML)
• Experience with IaC: Terraform, ARM, Biceps or other
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD
• Self-starter and independent engineer

Nice to have:

Kubernetes, Docker, Bash, Splunk, ELK.

So, are you really looking for an environment where you can work on improvement? This is it!

Cloud platforms, lot of complexity and load, multi cloud and an automation first approach.

Only candidates in the Netherlands with EU passports will be considered. No HSM visa sponsorship possible.