Senior Cloud Engineer (Azure)

TL;DR

Senior Cloud Engineer (Azure/Kubernetes): Evolving and modernizing a global SaaS infrastructure with an accent on Azure Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) migration and Kubernetes re-architecture. Focus on eliminating toil through self-healing automation, consolidating observability platforms, and provisioning cloud AI infrastructure.

Location: Minimum 3 days per week at the Delft head office (Netherlands)

Salary: € 6,000 - 7,000 per month

Company

hirify.global provides a global SaaS platform for service management used by thousands of organisations worldwide.

What you will do

• Migrate workloads into Azure CAF landing zones using reusable Terraform modules and FinOps tagging.
• Re-architect Kubernetes topology to improve scalability, resource efficiency, and operational flexibility.
• Identify and engineer out toil to build self-healing automation and a reliability roadmap.
• Standardize monitoring and observability deployments across global datacenters to reduce alert-to-incident ratios.
• Provision and maintain infrastructure across 7+ global datacenters using IaC pipelines.
• Build and operate the cloud AI infrastructure required for new product capabilities.

Requirements

• Proven hands-on experience as a Cloud or Infrastructure Engineer in a production environment.
• Deep Terraform expertise, including writing modules and managing state.
• Kubernetes expertise at the operator level (Helm, RBAC, Ingress, persistent volumes).
• Strong Linux system administration skills and experience with Puppet or Ansible.
• Experience with Azure Cloud Adoption Framework or enterprise landing zone structures.
• Must be based in or able to work from Delft, Netherlands (minimum 3 days per week).

Nice to have

• Familiarity with observability tooling at scale, such as Grafana, Prometheus, or VictoriaMetrics.

Culture & Benefits

• 10 to Grow: 10% of working time and a budget equivalent to 10% of gross annual salary for personal development.
• Generous paid parental leave (full salary for 9 weeks, 50% for 17 weeks).
• Paid volunteering opportunities during working hours.
• Modern equipment (laptop) and a salary that grows with professional development.

Hiring process

• Initial application followed by a phone screening for expectation alignment.
• First interview focusing on culture and the "hirify.global spirit".
• Second interview focusing on technical experience and specific job fit.
• Contract discussion and onboarding.