About the job

Lead Azure Engineer – Azure | Terraform | Multi Region | Amsterdam / Rotterdam [€120K][Business Critical IT / Managed Services]

A team of engineers, one client environment, and no manager sitting between them and the decisions. The most senior engineer in that team sets the technical direction and is also the one in front of the client.

My client runs the infrastructure behind systems that large organisations cannot afford to lose. The work is organised into dedicated teams, one per client environment, and each team designs, builds and then runs its platform for years with a full technical mandate from the customer. There is very little management structure, so direction comes from the engineers who know the environment best. You join one of those teams as its most experienced engineer.

• What you’ll doYou take technical ownership of an Azure platform and the direction it moves in. Multi region design, global connectivity, identity and security boundaries, cost and resilience. You still write Terraform and you are still in the incidents, because the person setting direction here is the person doing the work. Alongside that you run the technical conversation with the client’s engineers and architects, and you bring the rest of the team with you. This is not a line management role. No headcount, no performance reviews, nobody reporting to you. The authority comes from being the engineer everyone checks with.