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Valtech is looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer (Azure). Have you earned your stripes in cloud engineering, do you have a DevOps mindset and understand the meaning of your work for other specialists? Do you know how to organize your work and that of others? Are you a team player who cares about the team and is willing to take point if things get rough while sharing successes together? Can you convince a client to make the right decision? This may just be the job for you.
Valtech and Cloud Engineering
Valtech is a leading global agency in the business of digital transformation. We help our client to transform their business into a true digital experience. In this mission, we design, build, and run large-scale global experience and commerce platforms in co-creation and cooperation with our clients. Experience and commerce platforms have drastically evolved over the last years in complex ecosystems that tie together multiple services of multiple vendors – also known as MACH or composable architecture. As a founding member of MACH Alliance, a group that educates enterprises on best-of-breed Microservices, APIs, Cloud, and Headless (MACH) technology, Valtech pioneers in how to properly build and manage those complex ecosystems. Site reliability engineering is at the core of our vision of how this modern-day distributed ecosystem should and can be managed.
A Day in the Life of a Senior Cloud Engineer (Azure)
As Senior Cloud Engineer (Azure) you are part of a multidisciplinary project team working with software engineers, QA engineers, and frontend engineers on experience and commerce platforms. You will work with Infrastructure as Code (mostly Terraform), support teams in setting up their pipelines, help them to deploy and scale their applications, design and ensure security on the cloud infrastructure of our client, set up recovery procedures, etc. You’ll work with containerized environments hosted either in Azure PaaS (Container Services, App Service, Azure functions) or on Kubernetes (AKS), although at times you will also work in an IaaS context with VMs.
On top of that, you help teams to grow and incorporate cloud techniques – these teams may contain cloud engineers but could also consist of DevOps-minded software engineers. You participate in the European cloud team and actively contribute to growing the cloud engineers in that team. You help with advice, estimates, risk analysis, and proactively alert project management around cloud workstreams. You’re supporting cloud and solutions architects by assessing their solutions for feasibility and against the competencies and skills of the teams that need to execute them. You sometimes jump into projects to help them overcome a bump in the road and help colleagues identify problems for what they are and help them find the appropriate solution and to get the time they need to implement that solution.
Your responsibilities will be:
- Building, changing, and maintaining cloud infrastructures in Azure – compute, data, and networking.
- Setting up logging, monitoring, and security.
- Support and teach teams to set up and maintain their own pipelines.
- Coach middle and junior colleagues to improve their technical skills.
- Pro-actively advise teams, clients, and projects on cloud-related improvements in the areas of performance, availability, security, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
- Help project and service managers budget and plan cloud work, and identify project or SLA risks.
- Participate as a cloud engineer in our 24x7 on-call duty rotation.
- Coordinate cloud work in a project with multiple cloud engineers.
- The single point of contact for client, project, and service management on cloud topics for a specific project.
- Make sure that documentation is created and maintained.
- Govern automation at the right level and quality.
- Supervise compliance with security standards and client requirements.
You and the role
You are someone with at least 5 years of experience as a cloud engineer in Azure. You communicate clearly, transparently, and proactively. You have worked in an environment where you needed to work together with developers to get things done. You have experience with public-facing online applications, high availability, and high traffic. You have a cooperative attitude, a DevOps mindset, and as such you're interested in the work of others. You communicate easily and can explain technical concepts to non-technical people. You have a clear understanding of what information is needed at which time for a project manager or the client. You have organizational sensitivity (and can explain what this means 😉). You have respect for your colleagues and embrace diversity in all its aspects.
We would love to talk to you if
- You are assertive with good communicative skills.
- You have experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform.
- You have a solid knowledge of the serverless services of Azure.
- You have knowledge and experience with monitoring systems, such as Application Insights, Azure Monitor Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, and Tempo.
- You have knowledge of and experience with various pipelining tools, such as GitHub, and Azure DevOps.
- You have knowledge of and experience with microservices-related technology: Docker, and Kubernetes.
- You have a good conceptual understanding of cloud architecture and system thinking.
- You have worked as an engineer in a DevOps context.
- You have an excellent command of English (C2).
- Are familiar with the following technologies:
- Container services
- AKS
- Azure functions
- SQL as a service
- Cosmos DB
- Azure Monitoring (including APM)
- AppGW, AFD, NSG, Azure Firewall
- Have worked within the context of publicly accessible, highly available eCommerce and/or experience platforms.
- Have experience working in an international context with on- and off-shore teams.
- You are used to communicating with external clients.
What do we offer in return?
A sunny terrace to enjoy a few drinks 🥂 with your colleagues and our BBQs
Regular online and onsite events 🤙
Remote work-friendly 👩💻
Mingling with your colleagues at Café Valtech ☕
A team that is serious about getting things done while not taking itself too seriously 😁 Personal study budget and time – we take learning very seriously 👨🏫 and want you to be able to improve your skills
Health insurance 👩⚕️ with the option to add family members
Partnerships with Pulso and Urban Sports Club – we care deeply about your health, safety, and mental well-being 🍀
Home office budget to improve your workstation and get you ready to shine 🤩
A Coverflex budget to allocate in whatever suits your preferences 💸
Our recruitment process:
- Introduction video call with Talent Acquisition.
- Technical video interview with the Hiring Manager and other team members.
- Final interview with Delivery Manager and People Partner.
Diversity and Inclusion at Valtech
At Valtech, we’re here to engineer experiences that work and reach every single person. To do this, we are proactive about creating workplaces that work for every person at Valtech. Our goal is to create an equitable workplace that gives people from all backgrounds the support they need to thrive, grow, and meet their goals (whatever they may be). You can find out more about what we’re doing to create a Valtech for everyone here.