Senior Azure Platform Engineer — Cloud Strategy & Automation

Zühlke Group; Porto; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Work from home

Profit sharing

Global and diverse community

Development investment

Job summary

Zühlke Group is seeking a Senior Azure Cloud Platform Engineer to design, implement, and support scalable, secure cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure. This hands-on role focuses on strengthening the enterprise Azure platform, including landing zones, governance, and paved roads for teams across the organisation.

You'll mentor engineers, shape cloud strategy, and collaborate with architecture, security, and development teams to deliver robust, compliant solutions while optimizing costs and

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an Azure cloud engineer at a senior level.
• Experience designing Azure landing zones and workloads.
• Strong knowledge of Azure networking, compute, storage and security.
• Proficient scripting and automation using IaC and scripting languages.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement Azure landing zones aligned with enterprise-scale architecture.
• Develop and maintain IaC using Terraform, Ansible, ARM/Bicep.
• Define governance using Azure Policy, management groups, and RBAC.
• Architect and implement multi-region network topologies with Azure Firewall, NSGs, Private Endpoints, ExpressRoute.
• Ensure cloud environments are secure, compliant, and cost-optimized.
• Collaborate with architecture, security, and application development teams.
• Monitor and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure with Azure Monitor and Application Insights.
• Lead technical discussions, provide best-practice guidance, mentor engineers.
• Document solutions and share knowledge across the team.

Skills

Azure expertise

Senior Azure

Stakeholder communication

Independent work

Azure architecture

Networking concepts

Education

Bachelor's in CS/IT

Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

ARM/Bicep

PowerShell

Python

Azure Monitor

Job description

Zühlke Group is seeking a Senior Azure Cloud Platform Engineer to design, implement, and support scalable, secure cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure. This hands-on role focuses on strengthening the enterprise Azure platform, including landing zones, governance, and paved roads for teams across the organisation.

You'll mentor engineers, shape cloud strategy, and collaborate with architecture, security, and development teams to deliver robust, compliant solutions while optimizing costs and