Senior Cloud Automation Engineer (Azure)

Decskill; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Decskill is seeking a Senior Cloud Automation Engineer (Azure) to evolve an enterprise cloud platform through automation, self-service capabilities and platform engineering products. The role focuses on Azure, IaC, DevOps, security and governance within an international enterprise environment.

You will design reusable IaC modules, automate cloud provisioning, and build production-ready automation products that simplify infrastructure consumption for multiple application teams.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of professional experience in cloud engineering within international environments.
• Experience delivering production-ready cloud solutions with infrastructure automation and full-stack development.
• Strong knowledge of Azure services and platform engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement IaC modules and workflows for provisioning, configuring and managing Azure resources.
• Automate the lifecycle management of cloud infrastructure and shared cloud services.
• Develop secure, reusable and production-ready cloud automation products that reduce manual effort and operational complexity.
• Provide operational support for data processing and analytics automation, improving reliability and security.
• Develop self-service applications and supporting APIs to simplify cloud consumption and recurring tasks.
• Design and implement dependable automation workflows across cloud and enterprise platforms.
• Design and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application changes.
• Apply security and governance requirements into cloud deployments and policy enforcement.

Skills

Azure Cloud

Platform Engineering

IaC

DevOps

Security Governance

Automation

APIs & Integration

PowerShell

Monitoring

Kubernetes

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

ServiceNow

Azure DevOps

AKS

Databricks

Azure Data Factory

Job description

We are growing. And we are looking for talented people.

At Decskill, we believe that technological excellence is driven by human talent.

We are an IT consulting company with more than 10 years of consolidated experience in the market, focused on building long‑term relationships with both our clients and our people. Today, we are a community of over 800 professionals, working from Lisbon, Porto, and Madrid, contributing to impactful technology initiatives.

As part of the Astek Group, we combine a strong local culture with a global presence, being active in around 23 countries across 4 continents. This allows us to offer an international context, diverse challenges, and long‑term career opportunities, while staying close to our teams.

Senior Cloud Automation Engineer (Azure)

Project Context:

The project focuses on evolving an enterprise cloud platform through a new generation of cloud automation, self‑service capabilities and platform engineering products. The goal is to provide application teams with secure, governed and streamlined access to cloud services, while reducing operational complexity and accelerating delivery.

The role involves designing and implementing services that automate the provisioning, configuration, governance and lifecycle management of Azure resources. By applying modern platform engineering practices, the team develops reusable cloud services, APIs, portals, automation workflows and deployment patterns that simplify infrastructure consumption across multiple application teams.

The position combines software development, cloud engineering and platform engineering, with a strong focus on Azure, Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, security and automation in an international enterprise environment.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement reusable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules, templates and workflows for provisioning, configuring and managing Azure resources.
• Automate the lifecycle management of cloud infrastructure and shared cloud services.
• Develop secure, reusable and production‑ready cloud automation products that reduce manual effort and operational complexity.
• Provide operational support for data processing and analytics service automations, continuously improving reliability, performance and security.

Full‑Stack Development & Platform Integration

• Develop self‑service applications and supporting APIs to simplify cloud consumption and recurring operational tasks.
• Integrate Azure services with GitHub, ServiceNow, identity services and other platform components.
• Design and implement dependable automation workflows across cloud and enterprise platforms.

CI/CD & Quality Engineering

• Design and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines to validate, package and deploy infrastructure and application changes across environments.
• Implement automated functional, regression and deployment tests for applications, APIs, infrastructure modules and cloud services.
• Apply software engineering best practices to ensure code quality, maintainability, testing and reliable delivery.

Cloud Security & Governance

• Integrate security and governance requirements into cloud solutions and deployment workflows.
• Implement identity and access management, policy enforcement, secrets management and auditability.
• Ensure cloud automation solutions comply with security, reliability and governance standards.

Monitoring & Production Operations

• Build monitoring, logging and alerting capabilities into delivered services.
• Support production operations and lifecycle management, ensuring reliability and operational readiness.
• Prepare technical documentation, implementation guidance and support or handover materials.
• Identify and implement improvements that accelerate cloud delivery and enhance operational efficiency.

Requirements:

Experience

• At least 5 years of relevant professional experience in an international company environment.
• Experience delivering production‑ready cloud solutions combining infrastructure automation and full‑stack development.

Technical Skills

• Microsoft Azure & Cloud Architecture: Experience designing and delivering secure, governed Azure solutions across cloud services and workloads.
• Data Processing & Analytics: Knowledge of Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse, Azure Data Explorer, Stream Analytics, Event Hubs, Event Grid and IoT Hub.
• Data Storage & Databases: Experience with Azure Storage, including Data Lake Storage Gen2, Files, Queues and Tables, as well as Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL Flexible Server and SQL Server.
• Azure Application Services: Familiarity with Azure Machine Learning, Cognitive Services, AI Foundry, AKS, API Management, App Service, Logic Apps, Application Insights and Log Analytics.
• Infrastructure as Code: Strong knowledge of Terraform and the development of reusable modules for cloud provisioning and lifecycle management.
• CI/CD & DevOps: Experience designing and implementing automated delivery pipelines using GitHub Actions or equivalent tools.
• Cloud Security & Governance: Knowledge of access controls, identity management, cloud policies, secrets management and audit requirements.
• API & Platform Integration: Experience integrating Azure, GitHub, ServiceNow and identity services.
• Automated Testing: Experience implementing functional, regression and deployment tests for applications, APIs, infrastructure and cloud services.
• Scripting & Automation: Proficiency in PowerShell or equivalent scripting languages for operational automation and service integration.
• Monitoring & Operations: Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, alerting and production support.
• Containers & Kubernetes: Understanding of containerized workloads and Kubernetes, particularly Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Ability to collaborate with platform, infrastructure and application development teams.
• Good communication skills and a proactive approach to technical challenges.
• Commitment to continuous improvement, security and engineering quality.

Are you looking for an environment that values curiosity and commitment? Here, your contribution has real impact and individual growth is taken seriously.

Find with us the right opportunity to grow!

What you can expect from us:

• Long‑term projects with national and international context (if applicable).
• Opportunities to grow technically and professionally.
• A people‑first culture, focused on transparency and trust.
• Teams that value ownership, collaboration and stability.

Decskill is committed to equality and non‑discrimination with all our talents. We recruit and promote talent based on diversity and inclusion, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, race, nationality or any other form of discrimination incompatible with the dignity of the human being.