Azure Cloud Engineer Amsterdam • IF Solutions

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Join our Cloud Enablement Team at APG Asset Management and help power the digital backbone of one of Europe’s largest pension investors. We’re seeking a hands-on, forward-thinking Azure Cloud Engineer who brings deep technical expertise and strong consultancy skills to guide, help, and influence application teams in their cloud journey.

This role requires a unique balance of technical implementation and an advisory mindset—you'll not only build solutions but also partner closely with internal teams to help them translate their needs into robust cloud-native architectures and coach them toward self-sufficiency.

What You’ll Do

• Act as a technical consultant, helping teams interpret and understand platform standards and design choices, and guiding them in implementing Azure-native solutions.

• Support teams throughout the cloud journey from early-phase Cloud Adoptions Assessments (5R's), doing PoCs, and creating Solution Designs in a structured way.

• Help determine Cloud Learning Paths for application team members and supporting roles.

• Co-create reference architectures and landing zones that accelerate safe cloud adoption, by showing how, working together, and peer review in the right mix per team alongside the pillars of the MSFT Well Architected Framework.

• Help shape intermediate platform services such as a Managed Container Orchestration service by assisting the involved engineers in shaping a structured path forward.

• Unburden teams by building and managing APG AM specific Azure Verified Modules (AVM) to provide application teams with a secure and scalable self-service library of standard patterns.

• Develop tooling and blueprints for logging, monitoring, and alerting (LMA), security, and automation patterns.

• Design, build, and optimize solutions using Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and related services.

• Drive internal enablement through trainings, coaching sessions, community events, and hackathons.

Duur: niet gespecificeerd - niet gespecificeerd met optie op verlenging

Standplaats: Amsterdam

ZZP: onbekend

Gevraagd

Who You Are

You are a hybrid profile: an engineer and a consultant. You write code and infra but also guide, coach, and challenge teams constructively. A team player who preferably is acquainted with the three characteristics of an ideal team player (humble, hungry, and smart) as defined by Patrick Lencioni, and knows your own strengths and weaknesses within these characteristics.

• 5+ years in software/cloud engineering, with at least 2 focused on Azure.

• Experienced in Azure Data Services (e.g., Functions, Data Factory, SQL DB, Data Lake, Cosmos DB).

• Skilled in Azure DevOps, CI/CD, and IaC using Bicep, PowerShell, CLI, or Bash.

• Well-versed in containerization, serverless, and modern cloud-native designs.

• Experienced working under enterprise-level governance models (guard-railed subscriptions).

• Confident navigating security, compliance, and operational best practices in Azure.

Bonus Points

• Programming experience in Python or C#; familiarity with APIs and microservices.

• Exposure to financial services, especially asset or wealth management.

• Community contributions (e.g., GitHub, open source, blogs, speaking engagements).

Certifications (Experience over Certificates)

• Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate

QUALIFICATION/LICENSURE

• Preferred years of experience: 5 years

• Travel required: 25% to 50%

Aanbod

Working conditions: This job role offers a balanced split between operational (run) and project (build) work, with a distribution of 75% operational and 25% project-related tasks. To minimize the impact on business operations, some changes may be scheduled outside of regular business hours. 

Do you want this too? Do you aspire to be the best version of yourself? We are delighted to support your development and invest in an environment where continuous learning is encouraged. We provide you with the freedom to innovate and take initiative. By offering numerous growth opportunities, we help you exceed your own expectations and excel in your work, enabling you to grow both personally and professionally.

Moreover, you can expect the following benefits based on a 36 or 40-hour working week:

• An Employee Benefit Budget equivalent to 10% of your monthly income, which you can use according to your preferences. This budget allows you to purchase additional holiday days or make additional contributions to your pension.
• Flexible working hours and the possibility of location-independent work, depending on the team's planning.
• 100% reimbursement of commuting costs if you travel using public transportation. If you commute by car or motorcycle, you can opt for a commuting allowance.
• A pension scheme with a contribution rate of only 5% from your side.

Let's get to know each other.

Are you the person we are looking for? The new colleague who wants to strengthen our client's team and make a difference for yourself, our customers, and society? We would love to receive your application for this vacancy.

Please note: Even if you don't meet all the criteria mentioned in the profile, but you believe you can fulfill the role effectively, we encourage you to apply. We invest in your growth and development.

Responses to applications are handled in accordance with our vacancy management process.

If you have any questions about the application process, ww will be happy to assist you via email (via de button "Solliciteer nu" op deze pagina.) office +31 10 210 87 90 or through the provided application link.

Screening is a standard part of the application process. We assess candidates based on the screening procedures followed by our client to ensure that new employees are reliable and suitable for their roles.

For this vacancy, an individual assessment and skills testing may be included as part of the application process.

We believe that everyone is unique, and it is precisely these differences that help us become an even better bank. That's why we are curious to know more about you.

Waar je gaat werken

Sharing would be appricatied! Paylaşırsanız sevinirim! Do you want to work for our client in The Netherlands? Hollandada ICT alaninda calismak?

Let’s meet! Are you the person we’re looking for?

If you are, we are happy to receive your application including your motivation.

Growing a better world together: You'll already be aware that our client is a financial services provider for 7.1 million customers in 40 countries. But did you know that we aim to contribute to real change with our 'Growing a better world together' mission? We do so in countless ways, such as:

A third of all the food we purchase is thrown away. Together with Nature & Environment, we’re working to increase awareness among consumers of how to reduce food waste. As part of a project with Humanitas, we are helping people who are experiencing financial difficulties to get their household finances in order. Together with ‘Vluchtelingenwerk Nederland’ (the Dutch Council for Refugees), we are helping 1,500 refugees find a suitable job. Interested? Do you want to become the ideal version of yourself? We would love to help you fuel and invest in your career and ambitions in an environment where you keep learning every day. We give you the space to innovate and initiate. In this way, we offer you numerous opportunities to grow and help you exceed your expectations, to do the right thing exceptionally well, and to therefore grow as a professional.

Our client is a financial service provider for 7.1 million customers in 40 countries, you know already. Our Red Team works for all the locations of our client in all these countries. Do you also know that we are working together on a better world? We do this in 101 ways like for example our knowledge and experience of Ethical Hacking and Red Teaming sharing with other organizations and "hackers". That belongs to us at ' growing a better world together '