Cloud Engineer Azure

Schuberg Philis; Schiphol-Rijk; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in the Netherlands is seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer to join a multidisciplinary team focused on Azure solutions. The role involves designing cloud architectures, migrating workloads to Azure, and automating processes. Candidates should have expertise in Azure resources and tools, including Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) and Azure DevOps. The position requires a proactive mindset and the ability to work on traditional and cloud-based environments.

Qualifications

• Understanding of Cloud Landing Zones and the Cloud Adoption Framework.
• Experience with Azure resources (VMs, App Service, SQL Server, VNET, Firewall, Key Vault, Storage Account).
• Understanding of and experience with Azure RBAC, Policy and Monitor.
• Experience with scripting in PowerShell (bash with AC CLI is a bonus).
• Experience with Azure DevOps, especially YAML pipelines.
• Experience with Configuration Management (Chef, Ansible, PS DSC).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (ARM, Bicep, Terraform).
• Understanding of Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) and its inter-dependencies with Azure.
• Experience supporting and managing traditional on-premises environments.

Responsibilities

• Design cloud solution architectures for migrations and green-field deployments.
• Drive the migrations of on-premises workloads to Azure.
• Develop reusable artifacts, such as Infrastructure-as-Code templates, scripts, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Create solutions for operational excellence, such as monitoring, logging, and configuration management.
• Deploy commercial-off-the-shelf and custom-built applications through CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement technical improvements, cost optimization, code reviews, and lifecycle management.
• Troubleshoot operational issues such as service interruptions, performance degradation, etc.
• Automate every aspect of repetitive work.

Job description

Please note: We are not able to consider candidates who are not living and working in the Netherlands. At this moment we are not providing relocation sponsorships.

As an Azure Cloud Engineer, you will be part of a multidisciplinary team that works with and for a customer with a specific Azure focus. All of these teams have different focus areas and different team dynamics. The activities range from building Azure landing zones and enablement platforms for trading environments, to running traditional banking platforms and migrating critical applications to Azure. Based on your skillset and your experience, you will land in the customer team that best suits you!

In your role as Azure Cloud Engineer, you will be involved in:

• Designing cloud solution architectures for migrations and green-field deployments
• Driving the migrations of on-premises workloads to Azure
• Developing reusable artifacts, such as Infrastructure-as-Code templates, scripts and CI/CD pipelines
• Creating solutions for operational excellence, such as monitoring, logging and configuration management
• Deploying both commercial-off-the-shelf as well as custom-built applications through CI/CD pipelines
• Implementing technical improvements, cost optimization, code reviews and lifecycle management
• Troubleshooting operational issues such as service interruptions, performance degradation, etc.
• Automating every aspect of repetitive and mundane work.

What is your profile? You have..

• Understanding of Cloud Landing Zones and the Cloud Adoption Framework
• Experience with Azure resources (VMs, App Service, SQL Server, VNET, Firewall, Key Vault, Storage Account)
• Understanding of and experience with Azure RBAC, Policy and Monitor
• Experience with scripting in PowerShell (bash with AC CLI will be a nice bonus)
• Experience with Azure DevOps, especially YAML pipelines
• Experience with Configuration Management (Chef, Ansible, PS DSC)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (ARM, Bicep, Terraform)
• Understanding of Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) and the inter-dependencies with Azure
• Experience supporting and managing traditional on-premises environments

If you bring additional experience with Kubernetes (AKS or ArgoCD), this will broaden the type of customer teams you will potentially land in.