Lead Cloud Platform Architect (Azure) – Build Enterprise Cloud

Zühlke Engineering (Austria) Gmbh; Porto; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Remote work option

Work-life balance options

Supplementary health insurance

Employee Assistant Program

Job summary

Kuehne+Nagel is hiring for a Cloud Value Engineer in Porto. You will drive cloud cost optimization across AWS, GCP, and Azure, collaborating with finance, infra, and product teams to optimize cost and value. The role emphasizes data-driven decision making, policy-as-code, and DevFinOps practices.

You will join a distributed team across Europe and contribute to cost-aware product development, operation, and financial management, with flexible hours and remote work options.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable knowledge of AWS services including cost explorer, QuickSight, and budgets.
• Understanding of cloud concepts like compute, tagging, billing, and pricing models.
• Knowledge of cost showback, cost attribution, forecasting, and amortization.
• Ability to process and analyze large financial data with standard tools and query languages.
• MS Excel skills for integration and data handling.
• Strong communication and presentation skills for decision support.
• Experience in Policy-as-Code and integration into pipelines.
• Understanding software architecture patterns for cost-effective solutions.
• Experience in consulting and onboarding DevOps into CFM activities.

Responsibilities

• Analyze cloud spend across cross-application scopes using CFM methods and tooling.
• Collaborate with finance, infrastructure, and cloud account teams to refine methods.
• Identify cost optimization potentials and provide input for decision makers.
• Act as a trusted advisor to KN stakeholders with engineering mindset and data analysis.
• Monitor cloud spend and prepare weekly and monthly reports.
• Advise on cost optimization strategies and track progress of activities.
• Support operational teams in implementing guardrails and controls.
• Assist product development in FinOps/DevFinOps activities.
• Contribute to building the CVE team's big picture from a CFM perspective.

Skills

Cloud cost optimization

Data analysis

Communication

Presentation

Policy-as-Code

DevOps coaching

FinOps

Tools

AWS

Google Cloud

Microsoft Azure

Excel

Job description

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You will join as a member of our newly formed Cloud Value Engineering team (CVE) in our IT hub in Porto. The team is part of our global CCoE / Cloud Business Office function, KN Cloud Office. From Porto, you will contribute to our distributed team across European IT hubs in Hamburg (Germany) and Tallinn (Estonia), as well as digital product development, operational services, and stakeholder management. Please note: The details below refer to the aggregated responsibilities and skills of the CVE team in the CFM domain. These are distributed among individual team members according to personal profile and experience. As a common characteristic, CVE team members are driving towards embedding individual aspects of CFM, such as infrastructure-related cost, into product-level TCO optimization and business value drivers for leverage in product innovation, application modernization, and application operation. In this way, the CVE team design extends traditional IT Controlling functions in terms of holistic scope and proactive financial / cost optimization.

How you create impact

• Analyze cloud service spending at cross-application and individual application scopes leveraging common CFM methods and tooling (such as resource tagging, CFM dashboards, and automated cost advisors).
• Collaborate closely with Kuehne+Nagel's finance, infrastructure, and cloud account teams to refine methods and tooling and integrate data flow with KN financial management.
• Identifiy cost optimization potentials and create complementing input for decision makers at corresponding scope.
• Contribute in building the CFM team as a trusted advisor among KN stakeholders by demonstrating engineering principles and mindset (such as comprehensibility of outcomes, data analysis and feedback metrics, consistency in model building, effective problem solving / optimization, effective communication with product owners, with tech leads and with KN finance stakeholders).
• Monitor cloud spend day to day and prepare weekly & monthly reports for review of Cloud spend.
• Provide expert knowledge of cloud cost optimization strategies (e.g. rightsizing, waste management) and track the progress and success of Cost Optimization activities.
• Advise and support operational teams in implementation of CFM guardrails and controls.
• Advise and support product development teams in execution of FinOps / DevFinOps activities and in cost-optimization of solution designs in product development and operation (in close collaboration with cloud architecture team).
• Contribute in assembling the big picture of cloud value engineering from CFM perspective and in developing consistent model and advanced strategies from it.

What we would like you to bring

• Demonstrable technical knowledge of all AWS services including cost explorer, quicksight dashboard creation, operation and query, AWS budgets is must. Google Cloud or MS Azure is good to have.
• Good understanding of cloud concepts such as compute services, elasticity, tagging, billing, pricing models, discount options, and cost reporting tools.
• Knowledge of core financial concepts in cloud computing such as cost showback, cost attribution, forecasting, and amortization.
• Ability to process and analyze large amounts of financial data using standard tools and query languages.
• MS Excel skills for integration and pick-up of existing financial reporting data and processes.
• Communication and presentation skills for sharing of insights and relay into decision making.
• Experience in writing Policy-as-Code and integration into delivery pipelines and in operational monitoring / controls.
• Sound understanding of software architecture patterns and implementation techniques for cost-effective solutions.
• Experience in consulting and in onboarding / coaching of devops teams into CFM activities.

What's in it for you

Your work has a direct impact on the future of logistics and IT. Your team is made up of experts who are shaping the IT industry in Portugal and around the world. We want you to feel comfortable in our working environment, where you will be dealing with different cultures. That is why we offer flexible working hours and the opportunity to work remotely. We value teamwork, continuous learning and diversity. Kuehne+Nagel offers you a tailor-made career with individual planning and team leaders who will support you in every way. On a personal level, we support you with a wide range of work-life balance options, supplementary health insurance and our EAP - Employee Assistant Program.

Who we are

Logistics shapes everyday life - from the goods we consume to the healthcare we rely on. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work goes beyond logistics; it enables both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people around the world.

As a global leader with a strong heritage and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment where your career can make a real difference. Whether we help deliver life-saving medicines, develop sustainable transportation solutions or support our local communities, your career will contribute to more than you can imagine.

Kuehne + Nagel is an equal employment/affirmative action employer. If you require an accommodation for any part of the online application process due to a disability, please contact the Employee Services HR Help Desk at during the hours of 8:00am - 5:00pm EST; Monday through Friday or via e-mail at: with the nature of your request. We will answer your inquiry within 24 hours.