Principal Cloud Engineer at Elevation Recruitment Group
Amsterdam, Zeeland, Netherlands -
Full Time


Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

24 Dec, 26

Salary

95000.0

Posted On

25 Sep, 26

Experience

11 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

No

Skills

Industry

Information Services

Description

About the roleFor an established, internationally growing SaaS organisation in the Delft region, we're looking for a Principal Cloud Engineer (Azure). The organisation is in the middle of a major infrastructure transition: moving from a legacy on-premise datacenter to a modern multi-cloud environment that will support the company's growth in the years ahead. You'll play a key role in that transition.You'll join one of five closely collaborating engineering teams and work closely with an architect and the responsible manager to determine technical direction. This is explicitly not a role from the sidelines: you'll build infrastructure yourself, coach engineers on tricky architecture questions, and make sure teams stay well aligned with each other. For the right candidate, this is a unique opportunity to be truly decisive in how a platform with 24/7 uptime requirements evolves toward a mature multi-cloud strategy.

  • What you'll doDrive the transition from a legacy on-premise datacenter in the Netherlands to a modern multi-cloud environment built on Azure, and help determine which steps take priority
  • Guide engineers hands-on in writing and restructuring Terraform modules, expanding Kubernetes/AKS clusters, and resolving complex production issues, while improving the observability setup together with them (e.g. Influx, VictoriaMetrics, Nagios)
  • Align technical choices across the five engineering teams (Hosting, SRE Engineering, Artification, Virtual Appliance, and Front Office) so architectural decisions don't conflict with one another
  • Take end-to-end ownership of concrete infrastructure transformation projects, from initial design through go-live, and initiate technical discussions when teams get stuck on a decision
  • Sit down with the architect and product owner to determine which cloud solution best fits business goals, and translate those choices into a concrete plan for the teams
  • Take part in the on-call rotation and actively help think through how this process can become smarter and less demanding, for example by automating more around alerting and incident follow-up


  • Who you areYou have at least 7 years of experience as a Cloud Engineer, with demonstrable depth in Kubernetes and Terraform in production environments
  • You have broad Azure experience (networking, compute, storage) and can hit the ground running from day one
  • You're a hands-on technical leader who drives major cloud transformations while also coaching and developing engineers

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Responsibilities

About the roleFor an established, internationally growing SaaS organisation in the Delft region, we're looking for a Principal Cloud Engineer (Azure). The organisation is in the middle of a major infrastructure transition: moving from a legacy on-premise datacenter to a modern multi-cloud environment that will support the company's growth in the years ahead. You'll play a key role in that transition.You'll join one of five closely collaborating engineering teams and work closely with an architect and the responsible manager to determine technical direction. This is explicitly not a role from the sidelines: you'll build infrastructure yourself, coach engineers on tricky architecture questions, and make sure teams stay well aligned with each other. For the right candidate, this is a unique opportunity to be truly decisive in how a platform with 24/7 uptime requirements evolves toward a mature multi-cloud strategy.

  • What you'll doDrive the transition from a legacy on-premise datacenter in the Netherlands to a modern multi-cloud environment built on Azure, and help determine which steps take priority
  • Guide engineers hands-on in writing and restructuring Terraform modules, expanding Kubernetes/AKS clusters, and resolving complex production issues, while improving the observability setup together with them (e.g. Influx, VictoriaMetrics, Nagios)
  • Align technical choices across the five engineering teams (Hosting, SRE Engineering, Artification, Virtual Appliance, and Front Office) so architectural decisions don't conflict with one another
  • Take end-to-end ownership of concrete infrastructure transformation projects, from initial design through go-live, and initiate technical discussions when teams get stuck on a decision
  • Sit down with the architect and product owner to determine which cloud solution best fits business goals, and translate those choices into a concrete plan for the teams
  • Take part in the on-call rotation and actively help think through how this process can become smarter and less demanding, for example by automating more around alerting and incident follow-up


  • Who you areYou have at least 7 years of experience as a Cloud Engineer, with demonstrable depth in Kubernetes and Terraform in production environments
  • You have broad Azure experience (networking, compute, storage) and can hit the ground running from day one
  • You're a hands-on technical leader who drives major cloud transformations while also coaching and developing engineers

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