Cloud Engineer (Azure)

TL;DR

Cloud Engineer (Azure): Building and improving cloud platform capabilities, governance, security, automation, and FinOps with an accent on cloud agnostic engineering and best practices. Focus on evolving Azure landing zones, implementing security guardrails, and managing containerized workloads.

Location: Hybrid in Nootdorp, Netherlands

Salary: €5,000–€5,750 per month

What you will do

• Own and evolve Azure landing zones and core platform services with a cloud agnostic approach.
• Contribute to governance and security guardrails using Azure Policy, RBAC/PIM, management groups, and enterprise scale landing zones.
• Apply security tooling such as Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, Key Vault, Private Endpoints, and Conditional Access.
• Build automated, reusable platform components using IaC (Bicep/Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Help manage and improve containerized workloads, GitOps governance, and Kubernetes platform standards.
• Drive FinOps practices including tagging, budgets, rightsizing, dashboards, and monthly optimization cycles.
• Enable teams through design reviews, best practice guidance, reference architectures, and L3 platform expertise.

Requirements

• 3+ years of cloud/platform engineering experience, including hands-on with Azure in enterprise environments.
• Expertise in Azure landing zones, networking, identity, security controls, and IaC tooling.
• Implemented enterprise grade security guardrails and integrated with SIEM/SOC platforms such as Sentinel.
• Proven FinOps experience across tagging strategies, anomaly detection, reservations, and cost reporting.
• Confident scripting in PowerShell, Python, or Bash.
• Understanding of modern cloud foundations: networking, identity, secrets management, CI/CD, and reusable modules.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary with opportunities for growth.
• 29 holidays per year with possibility to purchase 12 additional days.
• Extensive career & training opportunities both nationally and internationally.
• Flexible working hours and the ability to work from home in accordance with your manager and corporate policies.
• Commuting allowance, modern pension scheme, and collective health insurance.
• Possibility to register with corporate fitness plan and coaching options through EAP.

Hiring process

• You will receive an automated confirmation-email of the receipt of your application.
• When we see a match, we will invite you for the first interview within a couple of days.
• After a successful first round, you will be invited for the second round.
• If we are both still positive after the second interview, we will make you an offer.