Senior Azure Cloud Engineer

Why Valtech? We’re advisors, visionaries, creative and techies. We embrace all things digital. We talk to each other. We have fun. We love our clients. We’re looking ahead • We are global

We are an experienced innovation company!

We exist to unlock a better way to experience the world. Valtech is one of the largest global business transformation agencies. We design, build, and deliver transformative digital solutions for the world’s best-known brands.

We engage with our clients worldwide to discover new opportunities, design & build digitally driven solutions, and run & continuously optimize outcomes. We build intuitive, frictionless, and connected experiences that improve human lives and make our client’s businesses grow.

The Ideal Candidate:

You are someone with at least 5 years of experience as a cloud engineer in Azure.

You communicate clearly, transparently and pro-actively. You have worked in an environment where you needed to work together with developers to get things done. You have experience with public facing online applications, high availability and high traffic. You have a cooperative attitude, a DevOps mindset and as such you’re interested in the work of others. You communicate easily and can explain technical concepts to non-technical people. You have a clear understanding of what information is needed at which time for a project manager or for the client. You have organizational sensitivity (and can explain what this means).

• You have experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform.
• You have solid knowledge of serverless services of Azure.
• You have knowledge and experience with monitoring systems, such as Application Insights, Azure Monitor Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Tempo.
• You have knowledge of and experience with various pipelining tools, such as GitHub, Azure DevOps.
• You have knowledge of and experience with microservices related technology: Docker, Kubernetes.
• You have a good conceptual understanding of cloud architecture and system thinking.
• You have worked as an engineer in a DevOps context.
• You are familiar with the following technologies:
• Container services
• AKS
• Azure functions
• SQL as a service
• Cosmos DB
• Azure Monitoring (including APM)
• AppGW, AFD, NSG, Azure Firewall
• Have worked within the context of publicly accessible, highly available eCommerce and or experience platforms.
• Have experience working in an international context with on- and off-shore teams.
• You are used to communicate with external clients.
• Upper-intermediate English level.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Accountability, collaboration, and time-management skills.
• Strong desire to learn more about business every day.

The Role

As a Senior Azure Cloud Engineer within our organization, you will:

• Build, change and maintain cloud infrastructures in Azure – compute, data and networking.
• Set up logging, monitoring and security.
• Support and teach teams to set-up and maintain their own pipelines.
• Coach intermediate and junior colleagues to improve their technical skills.
• Pro-actively advise teams, clients and projects on cloud related improvements in the areas of performance, availability, security, reliability and cost effectiveness.
• Help project and service managers to budget and plan cloud work, identify project or SLA risks.
• Participate as cloud engineer in our 24×7 On Call Duty rotation.
• Coordinate cloud work in a project with multiple cloud engineers.
• Be the single point of contact for client, project and service management on cloud topics for a specific project.
• Make sure that documentation is created and maintained.
• Govern automation at the right level and quality.
• Supervise compliance with security standards and client requirements.

What we offer in return:

• This is a full-time position that comes with an excellent salary and an opportunity to grow within the company based on demonstrated merit;
• Flexible working hours and 25 vacation days for healthy work-life balance;
• Premium health insurance for fast and easy access to top healthcare services;
• Training policy for technical and other skills-related events, courses and certifications;
• Personal career development roadmap guided by performance evaluations;
• Co-subsidized transportation & Multisport cards;
• Self-care program offering psychological consultations & discussions for you and the team;
• Cozy office space designed for comfort and productivity;
• Exciting team events and company gatherings.

Diversity and inclusion at Valtech

At Valtech, we’re here to engineer experiences that work and reach every single person. To do this, we are proactive about creating workplaces that work for every person at Valtech. Our goal is to create an equitable workplace that gives people from all backgrounds the support they need to thrive, grow, and meet their goals (whatever they may be). You can find out more about what we’re doing to create a Valtech for everyone here.

Our company values

We SHARE our knowledge with our clients and colleagues all over the world. We value different opinions and embrace open discussions. We DARE to go into unknown territories. We dare to speak up and be totally honest. We CARE about the end-user experience, about our client’s businesses, and about the quality of the things we make.

We want to make the world a better place through the work we do.

Say hello to your future. Apply!