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Azure Platform Engineer Position

Start Date: ASAP

Duration: 3 months with the possibility of extension

Location: Brussel-hoofdstad (Full-time, hybrid role with 2 days on-site)

Language Proficiency: Fluent in Dutch and English (French is a plus)

Project / Context Situation:

The Azure Platform Engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing, managing, and optimizing Microsoft Azure platform services to ensure a secure, scalable, and resilient cloud foundation. The role focuses on platform reliability, security, governance, and operational excellence through automation, Infrastructure as Code, and standardized cloud services. The engineer will act as a key liaison between operations, architects, security teams, and application owners, translating business and technical requirements into enterprise-grade Azure platform capabilities. All Azure resources, configurations, and platform services must be deployed and managed exclusively through Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, operate, and continuously improve the Microsoft Azure platform.
• Deploy, manage, and maintain Azure infrastructure and platform services using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Develop and maintain Azure Landing Zones, governance frameworks, platform standards, and reusable cloud services.
• Monitor platform health, performance, availability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with cloud architects, security teams, DevOps teams, and application owners.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines, GitOps practices, and automation frameworks.
• Manage and optimize Azure networking, connectivity, private access patterns, DNS, and hybrid integration services.
• Ensure compliance with security, governance, backup, disaster recovery, regulatory, and operational standards.
• Manage Azure identity, authentication, authorization, RBAC, Privileged Identity Management (PIM), Managed Identities, and identity governance controls.
• Operate and maintain core Azure platform services including networking, storage, compute, container platforms, monitoring, security services, and platform management tooling.
• Drive continuous improvement through automation, standardization, documentation, self-service capabilities, and platform engineering best practices.
• Support incidents, problems, changes, service requests, and root cause investigations.
• Provide technical guidance and enablement to engineering teams.
• Enforce the principle that all Azure deployments, configurations, and modifications are performed exclusively through Terraform and approved CI/CD deployment pipelines.
• Promote cloud security best practices, Zero Trust principles, and operational resilience.

Technical Skills:

• Cloud (Azure & AWS)
• Infrastructure as Code (Primary focus on Terraform, YAML, and JSON)
• Cloud Networking (Azure VWAN, ExpressRoute)

Non-technical Skills:

• Good communication skills
• Experience with Agile/Scrum
• Team player
• Pro-active
• Responsible
• Problem-solving skills