Senior cloud engineer

Are you passionate about elevating software development maturity and professionalizing platforms? Do you want to create impactful software that contributes to a better world through innovative projects? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you!

What you will do as a Senior Cloud Engineer:

As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will help us further extend and professionalize our development platform. You will work with several Azure Cloud services, CI/CD pipelines on Azure DevOps and GitHub, and you will create templates, manuals and blueprints for our developers to make use of. You understand security and observability principles and challenges in a (cloud) environment.

As a member of the Software Development Support Team, you will also spend quite some time helping developers in other teams. You enjoy gathering requirements and collaborating with others.

Working together

Working in a Platform team, you embody the Dev(sec)Ops culture of automation, continuous improvement and feedback loops. Within the team, you actively participate in design sessions, refinements and planning. Your ideas and input help make the platform services a success within the organization.

Responsibilities

Overall, your responsibilities are related to:

• Platform development
• Platform operations
• On-boarding users to use platform services
• User support
• Incident management
• Support Architect/Technical Sales in user onboarding

Where you will work

Royal HaskoningDHV is a worldwide independent engineering, project management and consultancy firm which integrates 140 years of engineering expertise with digital technologies and software solutions. Our 5,000+ colleagues are working from offices in more than 25 countries across the world. Through our mission Enhancing Society Together, we take responsibility for having a positive impact on the world.

Located in Amersfoort, our dynamic team of 7 members consists of a Product Owner, Solution Architect, Software Developers and 1 DevOps engineer. We specialize in extending and professionalizing our development platform using Azure Cloud services, CI/CD pipelines on Azure DevOps and GitHub. Our team creates templates, manuals, and blueprints to streamline development processes.

We embody the DevOps culture of automation, continuous improvement, and feedback loops. Our team actively participates in design sessions, refinements, and planning, ensuring our platform services are successful within the organization. While Dutch is our primary language, we are equally comfortable working in English.

What you will bring:

As a Senior Cloud Engineer, effective communication skills are important, as you'll need to collaborate closely with different teams. Adaptability is key, as the IT landscape is constantly evolving. Problem-solving and critical thinking skills are crucial for identifying and resolving complex issues that may arise. We are looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer with a strong focus on operations (Ops) rather than development (Dev). If you have a passion for optimizing and maintaining robust cloud infrastructure, we would love to hear from you.

• You have extensive hands-on experience in the Azure Cloud (5+ years) and are happy to further optimize the usage and ways of working with Azure in the company.
• You bring experience in the whole Software Development Lifecycle and advocate for the usage of the right approaches and tools.
• You have a platform way of thinking where ideally all the work you do can be automated and offered in a self-service manner to the developers.
  You like to stay up to date on the latest technologies and principles regarding (platform) software development. You are pro-active in your work and like to think along on matters like the future roadmap of the team and architectural decisions.

Besides that, you recognize yourself in the following:

• Expert in Azure services, security and landing zones
• Expert in Azure DevOps, both in usage and management of a centralized account
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-code via Terraform
• Able to implement enterprise-grade security and compliance requirements
• Good communication skills to help onboard developers to our platform

What we offer you:

• A competitive primary salary (4104-6564) based on your experience.
• Annual profit sharing, where one-third of our profit is distributed among employees and the opportunity to purchase company shares.
• Pension accrual through our own pension fund with an employer contribution of 18.3%.
• 15% personal budget that you can tailor to your preference - cash it out monthly or turn it into extra vacation time for those well-deserved breaks.
• 28 vacation days per year based on a 40-hour workweek and the option to buy 16.5 additional days.
• Many opportunities to develop yourself, such as our learning weeks, various development programs and access to a range of online courses on LinkedIn Learning.
• A conveniently located workplace at our office in Amersfoort and travel expense reimbursement or an NS-Business Card including a 40% discount on private travel.

The full overview of our employee benefits in the Netherlands can be found here.

Are you our new colleague?

Then we would like to meet you! Apply now by sending in your CV and motivation letter using the button below. If you have any questions regarding this vacancy, please send them to recruiter Max Kapteijn via max.kapteijn@rhdhv.com.

Acquisition for this vacancy by agencies is not appreciated and offered candidates will not be taken into consideration.