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Valtech is looking for a Lead Cloud Engineer (Azure). Have you earned your striped in cloud engineering, do you have a DevOps mindset and understand the meaning of your work for other specialists? Do you know how to organize your work and that of others? Are you a team player that cares about the team and is willing to take point if things get rough, while sharing successes together? Can you convince a client to make the right decision? This may just be the job for you.

Valtech and Cloud Engineering

Valtech is a leading global agency in the business of digital transformation. We help our client to transform their business into a true digital experience. In this mission we design, build and run large scale global experience and commerce platforms in co-creation and co-operation with our clients. Experience and commerce platforms have drastically evolved over the last years in complex eco systems that tie together multiple services of multiple vendors – also known as MACH or composable architecture. As founding member of MACH Alliance, a group that educates enterprises on best-of-breed Microservices, APIs, Cloud, and Headless (MACH) technology, Valtech pioneers in how to properly build and manage those complex eco systems. Site reliability engineering is at the core of our vision how this modern day distributed eco system should and can be managed.

What will you be doing?

As Lead Cloud Engineer (Azure) you are part of a multidisciplinary project team working with software engineers, QA engineers, frontend engineers on experience and commerce platforms. You will work with Infrastructure as Code (mostly Terraform), support teams in setting up their pipelines, helping them to deploy and scale their applications, design and ensure security on the cloud infrastructure of our client, set-up recovery procedures etc. You’ll work with containerized environments hosted either in Azure PaaS (Container Services, App Service, Azure functions) or on Kubernetes (AKS), although at times you will also work in an IaaS context with VMs.

On top of that, you help teams to grow and incorporate cloud techniques – these teams may contain cloud engineers, but could also consist of devops minded software engineers. You participate in the European cloud team and actively contribute to growing the cloud engineers in that team. You help out with advice, estimates, risk analysis and pro-actively alert project management around cloud workstreams. You’re supporting cloud and solutions architects by assessing their solutions for feasibility and against the competencies and skills of the teams that need to execute them. You sometimes jump into projects to help them overcome a bump in the road and help colleagues to identify problems for what they are and help them to fiund the appropriate solution and to get the time they need to implement that solution.

As a Lead Cloud Engineer, you’ll be expected to:

• Building, changing, and maintaining cloud infrastructures in Azure – compute, data, and networking.
• Setting up logging, monitoring, and security.
• Support and teach teams to set up and maintain their own pipelines.
• Coach medior and senior colleagues to improve their technical skills.
• Proactively 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, and identify project or SLA risks.
• Participate as a cloud engineer in our 24x7 on-call duty rotation.
• Coordinate cloud work in a project with multiple cloud engineers.
• 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 do we expect from you?

• 5+ years of experience as a cloud engineer in Azure.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform.
• Knowledge of serverless services of Azure.
• Experience with monitoring systems, such as Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Application Insights, Azure Monitor.
• Experience with various pipelining tools, such as GitHub, Azure DevOps, Gitlab, Jenkins.
• Experience with microservices-related technology: Docker and Kubernetes.
• Understanding of cloud architecture and system thinking.
• Experience as an Engineer in a DevOps context.
• Excellent command of English (C2).
• Hands-on experience within the context of public-facing online applications, high availability, and high traffic eCommerce and/or experience platforms.
• Experience in leading a small team of engineers as first amongst equals, but not as an IT manager.
• Experience working in an international context with on- and off-shore teams.

Would be a plus knowledge of the following technologies:

• Container services.
• AKS.
• Azure functions.
• SQL as a service.
• CosmosDB.
• Azure Monitoring(including APM).
• AppGW, AFD, NSG, Azure Firewall.
• Azure CDN.

While we don't expect candidates to be proficient in every listed skill, a realistic blend of these skills is essential. We value individuals who not only bring existing expertise but also contribute innovative ideas and have a keen interest in learning and adopting new skills.

What do we offer in return?

A sunny terrace to enjoy a few drinks 🥂 with your colleagues and our BBQs
Regular online and onsite events 🤙
Remote work-friendly 👩‍💻
Mingling with your colleagues at Café Valtech ☕
A team who serious about getting things done while not taking itself too seriously 😁 Personal study budget and time – we take learning very seriously 👨‍🏫 and want you to be able to improve your skills
Weekly Tech Along where you can talk about different topics – some of them might not even be related to tech at all 🎾
Health insurance 👩‍⚕️ with the option to add family members
Partnerships with OpenUp and Urban Sports Club – we care deeply about your health, safety, and mental well-being 🍀
Home office budget to improve your workstation and get you ready to shine 🤩
A Coverflex budget to allocate in whatever suits your preferences 💸

Our recruitment process:

• Introduction video call with Talent Acquisition.
• Technical video interview with a Hiring Manager and team member.
• Final video cultural and business interview with Leadership.

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.