Cloud Engineer

💼Job Title: Senior Azure Cloud Engineer

👨 💻Job Type: Contract/Freelance

📍Location: Brussels, Belgium

💼Work regime: Hybrid (2 Day Onsite in a Week)

🔥Keywords: Azure, Kubernetes and Terraform scripting

We are seeking a Senior Azure cloud engineer (min 5 years of experience in the domain) to join our Engineering chapter team. You will play a critical role in deploying, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting cloud platforms and services in the Consumer Centricity product organization. The role involves hands-on infrastructure management, scripting, automation, incident management, and adherence to company policies and best practices. You are working within a cross-functional team to improve systems and processes and ensure uptime and efficiency.

Key Responsibilities:

• Cloud Deployment & Configuration: Provision and configure resources in public cloud platforms, following standardized deployment models.
• Automation & Scripting: Create and maintain templates and automation workflows for repeatable tasks and process optimization.
• Security & Compliance: Propose, implement and maintain cloud security measures, including firewalls, encryption, and identity management in line with company guidelines and market best practices.
• Operational Maintenance: Regularly monitor, patch, and update cloud services, and workloads to ensure reliability and security and reduce technical debt.
• Incident Management: Respond to and resolve operational incidents related to cloud infrastructure, performing root cause analysis and implementing preventive measures.
• Documentation: Maintain service and operational documentation, updating as environments and processes evolve.
• Collaboration & Support: Work closely with product owners, developers, and other IT profiles to manage infrastructure and support deployments. Mentor junior engineers and guide them through operational tasks and tooling.
• Continuous Improvement: Propose enhancements based on operational experience and new technical capabilities, focusing on reliability, efficiency, and cost management.

Qualifications:

• Experience: Minimum of 5 years in cloud engineering with extensive experience in Microsoft Azure.
• Certifications:
• AZ-104 – Azure Administrator Associate or higher
• (Optional) AZ-700 - Azure Network engineer associate
• (Optional) AZ-500 – Azure Security engineer associate
• KCNA – Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate
• (Optional) CKA – Kubernetes Certified Administrator

Technical Skills:

• Cloud concepts: Landing zone, Cloud adoption framework, regulatory frameworks (ISO, NIS2, …)
• Azure:
• Advanced Azure networking knowledge (Vnets, NSG, Hub&spoke model, Azure firewall, Private endpoints, WAF, …)
• Strong experience in Azure governance (Management groups, EntraID, PIM, Azure policies), cost management.
• Knowledge of security principles and tools (Azure Defender)
• Databases: Azure SQL, MongoDB.
• IaC : Terraform HCL scripting for infrastructure deployment and maintenance.
• CI/CD : Azure DevOps toolset (repositories, pipelines, …), ArgoCD.
• Containers: Extensive experience with Kubernetes.
• Monitoring: Strong experience with Monitoring, logging and alerting tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Opentelemetry)

A little about us:

Innova Solutions is a diverse and award-winning global technology services partner. We provide our clients with strategic technology, talent, and business transformation solutions, enabling them to be leaders in their field.

• Founded in 1998, headquartered in Atlanta (Duluth), Georgia.
• Employs over 50,000 professionals worldwide, with annual revenue approaching $3.0B.
• Delivers strategic technology and business transformation solutions globally.
• Operates through global delivery centers across North America, Asia, and Europe.
• Provides services for data center migration and workload development for cloud service providers.

Awardee of prestigious recognitions including:

• Women’s Choice Awards - Best Companies to Work for Women & Millennials, 2024
• Forbes, America’s Best Temporary Staffing and Best Professional Recruiting Firms, 2023
• American Best in Business, Globe Awards, Healthcare Vulnerability Technology Solutions, 2023
• Global Health & Pharma, Best Full Service Workforce Lifecycle Management Enterprise, 2023
• Received 3 SBU Leadership in Business Awards
• Stevie International Business Awards, Denials Remediation Healthcare Technology Solutions, 2023