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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Cloud Engineer - **Company:** TOPdesk - **Location:** Delft, Netherlands - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** €6,000.0 - €7,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Software Debugging, Linux System Administration, Role-Based Access Control, Topdesk, Ansible, Prometheus, Runbook, Service Layer, Datadog, Grafana, Kubernetes, Puppet, Terraform - **Published:** July 10, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.nationalevacaturebank.nl/vacature/671713fd-7f59-45c8-a4f8-bcc9e1a5eb62/senior-cloud-engineer ## About the Role + Proven hands-on experience as a Cloud or Infrastructure Engineer in a production cloud environment. + Deep Terraform expertise - you write modules, manage state, and debug provider quirks, not just apply existing code. + Kubernetes at operator level: Helm, namespace management, ingress controllers, RBAC, persistent volumes. + Linux system administration - you understand what Puppet or Ansible is doing, not just whether it ran green. + Experience working within or migrating toward an Azure Cloud Adoption Framework or enterprise landing zone structure is a strong advantage. + Familiarity with observability tooling at scale - Grafana, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, or equivalent. + Comfortable in an on-call rotation with real SLA obligations and the maturity to know when to escalate. + Strong written communication - your documentation, runbooks, and architecture notes are unambiguous. ## Description This is a structural ownership role. We are looking for someone who thinks in patterns and policy, not just individual incidents - someone who finds "this has always been done this way" more motivating than deterring. You are genuinely curious about the systems you run: not just the happy path but understand the failure modes and mitigation. You document what you learn. You automate what you repeat. You can hold a strategic conversation with a FinOps stakeholder in the morning and review a Terraform module in the afternoon and enjoy both. This is what you do it for The nicest colleagues, a laptop, and a salary that grows with you. That is a no-brainer, of course. But there's more. In the Employee Handbook, you'll discover all of our employment conditions. The job interview process. This is how we do it! 3 First interview: culture You'll get to know TOPdesk, and we'll get to know you! If you have the true TOPdesk spirit, we'll meet again for a second interview. 6 Welcome to TOPdesk! Once you've signed the contract, we'll arrange everything for your first day. Let the adventure begin! As a Senior Cloud Engineer, what does success look like after 12 months? + You have shipped changes into production across at least two active initiatives - CAF migration, k8s re-architecture, or observability consolidation. + A domain of the platform - datacenters, a service layer, an observability stack - is visibly better because of your work. + Alert-to-incident ratio is measurably down. Runbooks you wrote are being used by the on-call shift without escalation. + Toil you identified is either automated or has a credible roadmap to be automated, with the impact documented. + A new workload migration or datacenter region has gone live with no SLA breach. + Engineering squads are consulting you during design, not only after incidents. Wondering what they're saying about working at TOPdesk? ## Related Videos - [Dev & Test in the Cloud? 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