Job Description
Description
We are looking for a Lead Cloud Engineer, with strong Azure experience, to join our DevOps team ⭐ You’ll take ownership of our DevOps and infrastructure landscape, working closely with our Technology Director, to shape how we build, run, and optimise our platform. From improving our Azure and Kubernetes setup to driving decisions around architecture, cost optimisation, and best practices, you’ll play a key role in bringing structure and direction to a fast-evolving environment.
What will you do as our Lead Cloud Engineer?
You’ll be guiding the team in setting priorities, assigning work, and ensuring smooth delivery across the DevOps function 🎯 A key part of your role will be leading ongoing improvements following our recent migration to Azure, including optimising architecture, performance, and cost, for example around storage strategies and usage patterns. You’ll also be responsible for managing and evolving our Kubernetes-based infrastructure and messaging systems (RabbitMQ), making sure the platform remains stable and scalable 📈
In addition to this, you’ll use observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana to understand system behaviour, identify issues, and drive longer-term improvements. You’ll take a hands-on approach to troubleshooting and resolving infrastructure and deployment challenges, while also designing and refining CI/CD pipelines and DevOps processes where needed to support reliable delivery. Working closely with Microsoft, you’ll help align on best practices and resolve technical issues, and you’ll be expected to bring ideas forward and make clear technical decisions to continuously improve and evolve the infrastructure without waiting for direction 🌟
Requirements
What makes you the ideal Lead Cloud Engineer?
A bachelor’s (HBO) degree in IT, Computer Science, or a related field,
Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, ideally in a DevOps or cloud infrastructure-focused role, touching on:
Working with Kubernetes in a production environment,
Monitoring and alerting with observability tools (Grafana, ElasticSearch),
Managing application deployments using Azure Pipelines and GitHub actions,
Managing Azure resources using terraform (IaC),
Troubleshooting performance issues across the full infrastructure
Experience in DevOps practices and tooling, with the ability to own and improve how things are run rather than just maintain them,
Confidence to make decisions, challenge ideas, and bring structure to an evolving environment,
Strong communication skills in English and the ability to work closely with a range of stakeholders (including external partners like Microsoft),
Currently living within commuting distance of Leiden, Netherlands.
Why you’ll love working here
You’ll be working in an open and collaborative company with +/-200 colleagues of over 40 different nationalities 🌎
We offer a professional, yet informal work environment, where it’s easy for you to try new things, share your ideas, and make an impact
Work-life balance: we enable people to work in ways that suit their working style, which is why we offer flexible hours and hybrid-working
Our Happy & Healthy Team organises numerous wellbeing initiatives to keep us all… happy & healthy, including various social activities such as bouldering, ice-skating ⛸️, game nights 🎲, and picnics 🍽️
We make sure you have a comfortable and ergonomic work set-up, both at home and at the office, plus all of the tools (and swag 👕) you need to do your job well
We want to make sure everyone is supported mentally and emotionally which is why we provide free access to mental healthcare support
You’ll be granted equity benefits, have access to financial coaching, and receive a 6% pension contribution, so that we can grow together 🌱
You’ve applied. What’s next?
We want all of our candidates to enjoy a smooth and efficient experience with us which is why we aim to get back to you regarding your application within 2 business days. The first step is a screening call with a member of the recruitment team. This is followed by a video meeting with our Technology Director, and a visit to our office in Leiden. Our interview process tends to take +/-3 weeks to complete 💙
