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# Lead Cloud Ops Platform Engineer

- **Company:** Sofico
- **Location:**  (Gent), Belgium
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Azure, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Ansible, Azure Machine Learning, Data Logging, Cloud Platform System, Kubernetes, Deployment Automation, Terraform, Docker
- **Published:** August 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.be/details/5846905004

## About the Role

* Senior-level, hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Ops, DevOps, or SRE - comfortable owning a platform end to end, with help from our Cloud Ops specialists.
 * Proven track record operating and scaling production SaaS or cloud-native platforms.
 * Strong background automating infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and operations at scale.
 * Confident setting technical direction and standards solo today, with the appetite to mentor and grow a team once one exists.

Knowledge & Skills

 * Infrastructure-as-Code: Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
 * Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, and cloud-native platforms.
 * CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-based deployment automation.
 * Solid Azure experience; exposure to Azure AI services is a strong plus.
 * Observability: monitoring, logging, alerting, incident response.
 * Operating multi-tenant / multi-customer platforms: tenant isolation, secrets management, fleet-wide upgrades.
 * Secure connectivity between cloud and on-premise or customer-hosted environments - needed from day one to integrate with the rest of Miles Enterprise.
 * Strong communication and stakeholder management; you'll work directly with product, AI engineering, and, eventually, the wider Miles Ops organisation.

## Description

* Design, build, and operate the AI Cloud platform: standardized, single-tenant customer environments run by SOFICO in Azure.
 * Build and maintain the automated "instance factory" for rapid, secure provisioning, upgrades, and lifecycle management of customer instances.
 * Own Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, and GitOps practices end to end, from design through daily operation.
 * Drive platform standardization: handle customer-specific requirements through configuration, not custom infrastructure.
 * Design secure, reliable connectivity between AI Cloud and the rest of Miles Enterprise, parts of which run on-premise or at customer sites.
 * Own platform reliability, security, and observability: monitoring, alerting, incident response, and continuous improvement.
 * Apply the technical standards and foundations for Cloud Ops for Miles Enterprise to the Data & AI team's artifacts.


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