Cloud Engineer

As a Cloud Engineer, you’ll manage and develop Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365, with a strong focus on Azure infrastructure, automation, security, and hybrid-cloud modernization. You’ll have real responsibility and room to turn your ideas into practical improvements.

You’ll join our multidisciplinary Digital & Innovation team as a cloud specialist, working with colleagues across different IT disciplines and with external technology partners.

Your responsibilities

• Manage, secure, optimize, and expand our Microsoft Azure environment.
• Maintain and develop Microsoft 365, with a focus on Exchange Online, Teams, identity, and security.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code, automation, and CI/CD standards using technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, and Azure DevOps.
• Modernize and migrate on-premises workloads in collaboration with internal specialists and technology partners.
• Improve the security, availability, performance, and cost-effectiveness of our cloud platforms.
• Contribute to architectural decisions, platform standards, and security by design.
• Collaborate with our software partner on the integration, security, governance, and monitoring of workloads running on Azure Kubernetes Service.
• Work primarily with Windows-based systems while supporting the growing use of Linux.

Our technical environment

Our infrastructure is broad, complex, and enterprise-grade. Our challenge is not only to operate this environment, but also to simplify, standardize, secure, and automate it.

You’ll work with:

• Self-managed datacenter infrastructure based on physical hardware and Hyper-V.
• A growing Azure environment covering compute, storage, networking, identity, monitoring, and security.
• A Microsoft 365 environment supporting approximately 500 users.
• A hybrid landscape of more than 300 servers supporting business-critical applications and segmented environments.
• Azure Kubernetes Service, managed in collaboration with our software partner.
• Terraform, Ansible, Azure DevOps, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Primarily Windows-based workloads, with increasing use of Linux.

• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
• At least five years of relevant experience in cloud, platform, infrastructure, or systems engineering.
• Strong practical knowledge of Microsoft Azure and experience managing and modernizing hybrid-cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience managing Microsoft 365, particularly Exchange Online and Teams, combined with knowledge of identity, Conditional Access, security, and compliance.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, automation, and CI/CD.
• Strong knowledge of Windows Server. Linux knowledge is a strong advantage.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and Azure Kubernetes Service is an advantage.
• You take ownership and collaborate effectively with colleagues and external partners.

Ready to apply?

Do you want to help shape and modernize our cloud environment? Apply now and join our Digital & Innovation team.

• A good salary in line with your experience, plus an annual fixed Christmas bonus and a performance-related bonus.
• A one-year contract with the option of a permanent contract afterwards.
• 25 vacation days and the possibility to buy and earn additional days.
• The possibility to work from home a number of days per week in consultation.
• Flexible working hours.
• A pension scheme in which 2/3 of the pension premium is paid by us.
• The possibility to follow training and education courses suited to your position and growth ambitions.
• The possibility to participate in coaching programs for your mental health.
• Participation in collective insurances such as disability insurance and survivor’s insurance.
• Free use of our own gym in Dordrecht.