Valtech is looking for a Lead Cloud Engineer with Azure expertise. Have you earned your striped 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 that 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 co-operation with our clients. Experience and commerce platforms have drastically evolved over the last years in complex eco systems that tie together multiple services of multiple vendors – also known as MACH or composable architecture. As 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 eco systems. Site reliability engineering is at the core of our vision how this modern day distributed eco system should and can be managed.
The Ideal Candidate
You are someone with at least 5 years of experience as a cloud engineer in Azure. You communicate clearly, transparently and pro-actively. 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 for 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
- You are assertive with good communicative skills
- You have experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform
- You have solid knowledge of serverless services of Azure
- You have knowledge and experience with monitoring systems, such as Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Application Insights, Azure Monitor
- You have knowledge of and experience with various pipelining tools, such as GitHub, Azure DevOps, Gitlab, Jenkins
- You have knowledge of and experience with microservices related technology: Docker, 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
- CosmosDB
- Azure Monitoring (including APM)
- AppGW, AFD, NSG, Azure Firewall
- Azure CDN
- 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 have led a small team of engineers as first amongst equals, but not as an IT manager
- You are used to communicate with external clients
- You communicate easily
The Role
As Lead Cloud Engineer with Azure you are part of a multidisciplinary project team working with software engineers, QA engineers, frontend engineers on experience and commerce platforms. You will work with Infrastructure as Code (mostly Terraform), support teams in setting up their pipelines, helping 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 out with advice, estimates, risk analysis and pro-actively 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 to identify problems for what they are and help them to fiund 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 medior and senior 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 to budget and plan cloud work, identify project or SLA risks
- Participate as 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 compliancy with security standards and client requirements
What do we offer in return?
- Private health insurance
We hope you will never need it, but nevertheless, we offer private health insurance to all our employees.
- Education program
We never stop learning, that’s why we offer our employees an educational program with training and certification.
- Wellbeing program
We all deserve to live a healthy and well-balanced life. It's not an option, it's a necessity!
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Work from home
Our jobs wrap around our lives – not the other way around. Wherever you feel you can be most comfortable and productive as well, we make sure to respect your choice.
- Social events
- Company sponsored Multisport card
- Food vouchers
- Competitive conditions
We enjoy spending time together, not only at work. Ski trips, carting, laser-tag, wine tasting, picnics, cooking classes… you name it – we’ve done it! There are plenty of cool events to join and to get to know your colleagues
Besides a competitive salary and 25 days of vacation, you will join annual company events with the whole team.
- Challenging projects
Ready for a challenge? We guarantee you’ll find challenging projects at Valtech!
- Cool colleagues
What’s the most important thing in a job? Cool colleagues with whom you spent most of the time during the week. We have a lot of them!
- Honest feedback
Honesty, openness and respect are among our core values. We encourage an open feedback culture in order to build trust and grow together
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.
Our company values
We SHARE our knowledge with our clients and colleagues all over the world. We value different opinions and embrace open discussions. We DARE to go into unknown territories. We dare to speak up and be totally honest. We CARE about the end-user experience, about our client's businesses, and about the quality of the things we make.
We want to make the world a better place through the work we do.