Lead cloud platform engineer

Combine the complexity of Data, Containerization, Cloud & Infrastructure!

• Designing, building, and managing highly secure, scalable, and available architectures
• Understand specifications in collaboration with the PO and other stakeholders
• Improve continuous integration and delivery systems
• Deploy, maintain and uphold DevOps architecture standards and services.
• Support developers teams in DevOps process
• Develop tools to deploy environments
• Monitoring cloud management and data storage services
• Contributing to technical design documentation
• Troubleshoot and analyze complex problems in distributed systems
• Contribute to continuous improvement of our software development WoW

Are you motivated by tackling complex engineering challenges within a collaborative, multi-disciplinary team? Do you thrive on leveraging Cloud technology within Agile development frameworks to create impactful solutions? Would you like to contribute to the advancement of cutting-edge chip production equipment? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Lead Engineer. You'll have end-to-end responsibility for developing cloud-based solutions as part of a Scrum team, collaborating with other teams organized within an Agile Release Train. This is a dynamic environment, so being a strong communicator and team player is essential. You'll be expected to take initiative and demonstrate a results-oriented approach. In this role, we look to you to display leadership, influencing stakeholders to implement software architecture improvements and adopt new development methodologies.

You will be employed by YER and seconded to our client. We offer:

• Good employee benefits
• Challenging assignments
• Excellent guidance from your consultant and YER's back office
• Development opportunities, including the YER Talent Development Programme with a personal coach
• Intensive support for international candidates (including Dutch lessons, tax-return and accommodation assistance)
• Cooperative and results and relationship-driven
• Friendly atmosphere and open culture
• Community/network with other technology professionals from a variety of multinationals
• Events and master classes with interesting speakers and attractive companies

• Demonstrate a proactive mindset and a strong desire to learn and explore new technologies, including GenAI, LLM and Copilots
• Lead the implementation and management of Azure cloud services with a focus on Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Develop and maintain continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines using tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub or GitLab
• Write and maintain high-quality, reusable code and manage configurations through scripting languages such as Python, Bash or PowerShell
• Configure, monitor and maintain cost-effective, scalable and resilient Microsoft Azure solutions
• Ensure compliance with client security, quality, scalability, resiliency and regulatory standards
• Create clear, comprehensive technical support documentation, reusable assets and guidance materials
• Provide technical direction for DevOps initiatives across different solution groups and third-party vendors
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to achieve project goals and resolve issues

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in Azure Cloud and Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitLab or similar tools
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Expertise in tools like Terraform, ARM Templates, Pulumi or Bicep for managing cloud infrastructure
• Scripting Skills: Proficiency in scripting languages, preferably Python, Bash or PowerShell, to automate tasks and manage configurations
• DevOps Full Stack: Practical knowledge of DevOps practices across the full stack (database, services, code, deployment and monitoring) within Azure Cloud
• Experience with container technologies and orchestration tools, including Docker, Kubernetes and Helm
• Proven experience in using CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub or GitLab
• Strong ability to work with developers, architects and project managers to identify and resolve bottlenecks, improve application performance and ensure smooth deployments
• Fluent English communication skills at a C1 level

Nice to have

• Having regular developer's experience
• Understanding of Cloud best practices established in the marked, such as Cloud Adoption Framework and Well Architected Framework
• Ability to identify opportunities, propose and implement changes of improvement in current process