Senior Cloud Engineer

About the role

As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you work on the maintenance and evolution of the SaaS platform that 10M+ people depend on every day. You provision and manage infrastructure with Terraform, optimise Azure networking, and run containerised workloads on Kubernetes (AKS) — turning our cloud strategy into clean, maintainable solutions. 

You sit in the Deploy, Run & Optimize lane — our CloudOps and DevOps function — where you help keep delivery fast, safe, and observable. You operate agents yourself and bring our AI-native ways of working into how infrastructure gets built, changed, and remediated. 

What this is not: A ticket-driven ops role kept away from the code. You own infrastructure as code, contribute to the backlog, and are close enough to the platform to design it — not just react to it. 

The team

You join Team Placeholder, one of the SaaS platform teams in the Deploy, Run & Optimize lane, based in our Delft office. We are a group of social technicians who value transparency, open feedback, and a healthy work-life balance. 

What you'll do

• Provision and manage infrastructure with Terraform, delivered through CI/CD. 

• Optimise Azure networking and configuration, and run containerised workloads on Kubernetes (Azure AKS). 

• Ensure technical alignment within your team and translate the cloud strategy into clean, maintainable solutions. 

• Contribute actively to prioritising the backlog and delivering high-quality cloud improvements. 

• Strengthen observability, reliability, and cost-efficiency across the platform. 

• Bring AI-native ways of working — agents, subagents, and shared patterns — into how the team builds and operates infrastructure. 

Technical environment

• Cloud: Azure at multi-tenant SaaS scale; Kubernetes / Azure AKS. 

• Infrastructure as code: Terraform via CI/CD; configuration tooling such as Puppet or Ansible. 

• Observability: metrics and monitoring stacks (e.g. Influx, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana). 

• Legacy: Java, MS SQL, heritage architecture — being decomposed. 

• How we build: Claude Code as our primary AI-native SDLC tool; subagents and multi-agent workflows; MCP tool integrations; shared prompt, agent, and eval libraries. 

Required

• At least 5 years as a cloud engineer, specifically with Azure. 

• At least 3 years with Terraform delivered via CI/CD. 

• Strong knowledge of Azure networking and configuration tools such as Puppet or Ansible. 

• Experience with containerisation (Kubernetes, Azure AKS). 

• A structured approach to SaaS complexity, with a programming background. 

• Excellent written and spoken communication; a collaborative mindset that spots dependencies early and works well with non-cloud teams. 

Nice to have

• Familiarity with observability tools such as Influx, VictoriaMetrics, or Grafana. 

• Developer Experience Engineering — building golden paths and tooling other teams ship on. 

• Current, personal practice of AI-native software delivery (Claude Code or equivalent). 

• Experience with EU data residency / sovereign cloud requirements. 

What's in it for you

• A strong focus on personal development — including, in the Netherlands, our “10 to Grow” programme: 10% of your time and budget for your own growth. 

• A hybrid working environment built on freedom, trust, and responsibility. 

• An open, informal, and supportive culture, with collaboration across national borders. 

• Excellent employment conditions. 

Want to apply? 

• Does this sound like your next step? Apply with your CV and a short motivation letter via the application form. We value innovative, communicative engineers — tell us, with an example, what those mean to you, and share your experience with Developer Experience Engineering.