Cloud Engineer

Cloud Engineer

CLdN is a leading provider of integrated quay-to-quay and door-to-door logistics solutions. Founded in 1929, CLdN ensures reliable, cost-effective transport that links the major economic areas of Europe. With 30 ships and more than 200 sailings a week, CLdN provides shortsea connections between the European continent, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Iberia and Scandinavia and offers the lowest CO2 footprint of all Western European RoRo operators. CLdN’s cargo and multimodal services have a Europe-wide reach using CLdN’s extensive network of ships, terminals and equipment. CLdN’s 3,000 employees ensure that it fulfills its mission: to excel as an integrated provider of maritime links.

In this challenging role, you help build, automate and maintain a secure, scalable and reliable cloud platform environment within IT Applications. You work across infrastructure, cloud services, container platforms and deployment pipelines, with a strong focus on standardization, automation and operational excellence. In doing so, you contribute to a robust and future-proof platform that supports business-critical applications and data-driven solutions across the CLdN group.

Your role

• Design, build and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, with a strong focus on Terraform.
• Deploy, operate and continuously improve cloud workloads on Microsoft Azure.
• Monitor and troubleshoot Kubernetes-based workloads, preferably on OpenShift, in collaboration with external software development partners.
• Help shape and maintain a secure, scalable and standardized cloud platform that supports both application delivery and data-driven workloads.
• Support GitOps-based deployment practices and maintain reusable, environment-specific configurations.
• Build, optimize and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps.
• Strengthen platform reliability by investigating incidents, performing root-cause analysis and improving resilience, failure handling and observability.
• Help define effective monitoring, dashboards and alerting that provide teams with actionable insights.
• Contribute to a secure, scalable and standardized cloud platform that supports both application and data-related workloads.

Your profile

• Solid experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices in a professional environment.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, including identity and access management, networking, platform governance and secure key management.
• Experience working with Kubernetes environments, preferably OpenShift, including troubleshooting workloads in containerized setups.
• Strong experience with Azure DevOps Pipelines and CI/CD automation.
• Familiarity with GitOps principles and tools such as Argo CD and Kustomize.
• A good understanding of distributed and event-driven systems, including concepts such as retries, idempotency, ordering and failure handling.
• A solid understanding of observability principles in cloud-native environments, together with the ability to investigate incidents across distributed systems.
• A structured way of working, combined with ownership and a clear focus on building reliable and maintainable solutions.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across infrastructure, development and business-facing teams.
• A hands-on, solution-oriented mindset, with a genuine interest in improving standards, automation and ways of working.
• Experience with scripting and automation, for example in PowerShell, Bash and/or Python, Terraform
• Dutch and English speaker at a professional level

Nice to have

• Experience with additional tooling such as Helm, Bicep, Pulumi or Ansible.
• Exposure to other cloud platforms or infrastructure environments, such as AWS and/or GCP
• Experience with data platforms, data analysis or data-related workloads.

Our offer

Compensation & Additional Benefits

• Competitive gross monthly salary in line with your qualifications and experience
• Meal vouchers
• Eco vouchers
• Sectoral bonus according to applicable sector regulations
• A work-from-home allowance for each remote day

Working Hours & Additional Leave

• Full-time contract of 38 hours per week
• 5 extra days off in addition to statutory vacation days
• Hybrid working: max. 3 days per week after 6 months
• Work hours with flexible start (7:30–9:30 AM) and finish (4:00–6:00 PM)

Insurance

• Group insurance
• Hospitalization insurance with the option to add family members, with an additional contribution for each member included

Mobility

• Company car with fuel card, pool car at the start
• After the initial period of 1 year: option to order an electric car within our company car policy

Contact

Are you interested in learning more about this position or do you want to apply?

Do not hesitate to send your CV with a cover letter to [email protected] with reference “Cloud Engineer”.