Senior Azure Cloud Engineer Position

 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 will work within a cross-functional team to improve systems and processes and ensure uptime and efficiency.

Key Responsibilities:

• 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.

Qualifications:

• 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
• Technical Skills:
  • 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: French (B1), Dutch (B1).

Working Conditions:

• Work Environment: Primarily office-based in Brussels.
• Office Presence: Flex-work - 2 days per week of office presence.
• On-call: Participation in on-call rotation for after-hours support.

Timing:

ASAP until 31/03/2026, renewable as a yearly contract.