- Company Name
- act digital
- Job Title
- Senior Azure Cloud Engineer - Brussels - ASAP Start - Freelance / CDI
- Job Description
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Job title: Senior Azure Cloud Engineer
Role Summary: Design, deploy, and maintain secure, scalable Azure infrastructures for a large energy infrastructure provider, ensuring reliability, cost-efficiency, and compliance with industry standards.
Expactations: Deliver high‑availability cloud solutions, lead automation initiatives, mentor junior staff, and participate in incident response and on‑call rotations.
Key Responsibilities
- Provision and configure Azure resources using standardized templates (Terraform, ARM).
- Automate infrastructure workflows with IaC and CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, ArgoCD).
- Implement security controls: firewalls, NSGs, private endpoints, Azure Defender, EntraID, PIM, policies.
- Monitor and troubleshoot services; apply patches, updates, and root‑cause analyses.
- Maintain documentation for architecture, operations, and incident playbooks.
- Collaborate with product owners, developers, and IT teams; mentor juniors.
- Propose and implement improvements for reliability, performance, and cost optimization.
Required Skills
- Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure (5+ years cloud engineering).
- Strong knowledge of networking (VNET, NSG, hub‑and‑spoke), governance (management groups, policies, cost mgmt), security, and monitoring (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry).
- Proficient in IaC with Terraform (HCL) and CI/CD pipeline development.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Azure SQL, MongoDB.
- Excellent problem‑solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Comfortable in agile, cross‑functional environments.
Required Education & Certifications
- AZ‑104 – Azure Administrator Associate (mandatory).
- Optional certifications: AZ‑700, AZ‑500, KCNA, CKA.
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