Cloud Engineer

HeadFirst
Hoofddorp, Netherlands
yesterday

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English

Job location

Hoofddorp, Netherlands

Tech stack

Microsoft Windows
API
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Applications Architecture
Azure
Cloud Computing
Cloud Engineering
Continuous Integration
Data Architecture
Data Infrastructure
Data Integration
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Platform as a Service (PAAS)
Cloud Services
Data Logging
Cloud Platform System
Delivery Pipeline
Multi-Cloud
Event Driven Architecture
HR Software
Infrastructure Automation Frameworks
Deployment Automation
Azure
Api Design
Api Management
Databricks

Job description

You contribute directly to the architecture that underpins our digital ecosystem. By shaping how workloads are designed and operated, you enable teams to build secure, scalable and resilient applications across Azure and AWS.

You work within a platform environment where data and applications are deliberately decoupled. Our Headless Data Architecture, built on Azure and Databricks, exposes data through well-defined interfaces, events and APIs. Surrounding this, a growing landscape of custom applications and integrations connects HR systems, vendor platforms and internal products.

Your role sits at the centre of this ecosystem. You enable application teams to adopt cloud-native patterns, integrate with the data platform and operate reliably at scale. From observability and deployment strategies to cost optimisation and governance, your engineering decisions shape platform consistency, reliability and long-term scalability.

What you will do

  • Design and support cloud-native application runtimes across Azure and AWS with a strong PaaS-first approach
  • Enable development teams to build scalable, secure and well-integrated workloads using Azure platform services
  • Shape integration patterns between applications, external systems and the data platform using APIs and events
  • Improve performance, resilience and reliability of workloads running on both PaaS and selected IaaS components
  • Support event-driven and API-based architectures across the application landscape
  • Establish observability practices covering logging, metrics and monitoring
  • Work closely with platform and cloud engineers to align workloads with security, networking and governance standards
  • Contribute to CI/CD and deployment patterns including blue-green, canary and rollback strategies
  • Provide guidance on cost-aware design and consumption of cloud services
  • Help standardise how applications are deployed, integrated and operated across teams, You join an international platform team responsible for enabling modern engineering across HeadFirst x Impellam. The environment is transformation-driven, with a strong focus on platform engineering, cloud enablement and data integration. You work with Azure, AWS and Databricks in a setup where engineering decisions have direct business impact and long-term architectural significance.

Requirements

Do you have experience in Windows?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, You combine hands-on cloud engineering experience with a strong understanding of how applications behave in production environments. You are comfortable operating close to development teams while maintaining a platform-wide perspective.

  • Professional experience working with Microsoft Azure as a primary cloud platform
  • Familiarity with AWS in a multi-cloud context
  • Hands-on experience with Azure PaaS services such as App Service, Container Apps, Functions and API Management
  • Background in designing and operating distributed, cloud-native application architectures
  • Solid understanding of event-driven systems and messaging patterns
  • Experience with Windows-based workloads hosted on cloud infrastructure
  • Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
  • Working understanding of infrastructure-as-code practices
  • Ability to translate functional requirements into scalable and reliable cloud solutions

What you offer as a professional

  • A pragmatic engineering mindset that balances architectural quality with delivery speed
  • Ownership in how workloads perform, scale and evolve
  • Clear communication across platform and application teams
  • A collaborative approach in complex technical environments
  • Curiosity and drive to continuously improve platforms and engineering practices

Mobility budget or Lease car: No

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