Vacature

Azure cloud engineer

Brussel

Solliciteer

We are seeking a Azure cloud engineer (min 5 years of experience in the domain) to join our Engineering chapter team. You will play a critical role in deploying, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting cloud platforms and services in the Consumer Centricity product organization. The role involves hands-on infrastructure management, scripting, automation, incident management, and adherence to company policies and best practices. You are working within a cross-functional team to improve systems and processes and ensure uptime and efficiency.

Tasks

  • Cloud Deployment & Configuration: Provision and configure resources in public cloud platforms, following standardized deployment models.

  • Automation & Scripting: Create and maintain templates and automation workflows for repeatable tasks and process optimization.

  • Security & Compliance: Propose, implement and maintain cloud security measures, including firewalls, encryption, and identity management in line with company guidelines and market best practices.

  • Operational Maintenance: Regularly monitor, patch, and update cloud services, and workloads to ensure reliability and security and reduce technical debt.

  • Incident Management: Respond to and resolve operational incidents related to cloud infrastructure, performing root cause analysis and implementing preventive measures.

  • Documentation: Maintain service and operational documentation, updating as environments and processes evolve.

  • Collaboration & Support: Work closely with product owners, developers, and other IT profiles to manage infrastructure and support deployments. Mentor junior engineers and guide them through operational tasks and tooling.

  • Continuous Improvement: Propose enhancements based on operational experience and new technical capabilities, focusing on reliability, efficiency, and cost management.

Ideal Profile

Experience

  • Minimum of 5 years in cloud engineering with extensive experience in Microsoft Azure.

Certifications

  • AZ-104 – Azure Administrator Associate or higher

  • (Optional) AZ-700 - Azure Network engineer associate

  • (Optional) AZ-500 – Azure Security engineer associate

  • KCNA – Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate

  • (Optional) CKA – Kubernetes Certified Administrator

Cloud concepts

  • Landing zone, Cloud adoption framework, regulatory frameworks (ISO, NIS2, …)

Azure

  • Advanced Azure networking knowledge (Vnets, NSG, Hub&spoke model, Azure firewall, Private endpoints, WAF, …)

  • Strong experience in Azure governance (Management groups, EntraID, PIM, Azure policies), cost management.

  • Knowledge of security principles and tools (Azure Defender)

Databases

  • Azure SQL, MongoDB.

IaC

  • Terraform HCL scripting for infrastructure deployment and maintenance.

CI/CD

  • Azure DevOps toolset (repositories, pipelines, …), ArgoCD.

Containers

  • Extensive experience with Kubernetes.

Monitoring

  • Strong experience with Monitoring, logging and alerting tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Opentelemetry)

Soft Skills

  • Leadership mindset to foster collaboration, encourage initiative, and drive growth in cloud infrastructure maturity.

  • Excellent problem-solving and analytical abilities.

  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.

  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities.

  • Agile way of working and at ease with cross-functional team structure.

  • Languages: English (C1).

Advantageous, but not required

  • Experience with following technologies: Azure API Management, Kong.

  • Experience with the following cloud technologies : Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

  • Languages: French (B1), Dutch (B1).