Why Valtech? We’re the experience innovation company - a trusted partner to the world’s most recognized brands. To our people we offer growth opportunities, a values-driven culture, international careers and the chance to shape the future of experience. 

The opportunity

At Valtech, you’ll find an environment designed for continuous learning, meaningful impact, and professional growth. Whether you're pioneering new digital solutions, challenging conventional thinking or building the next generation of customer experiences, your work will help transform industries. 

We are proud of: 

• The work we do and the innovation we drive 
• Our values of share, care and dare 
• A workplace culture that fosters creativity, diversity and autonomy 
• Our borderless, global framework, which enables seamless collaboration 

The role  

Valtech is looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer (Azure). Have you earned your stripes in cloud engineering, do you have a DevOps mindset, and understand the meaning of your work for other specialists? Do you know how to organize your work and that of others? Are you a team player who cares about the team and is willing to take the point if things get rough, while sharing successes together? Can you convince a client to make the right decision? This may just be the job for you.

Valtech and Cloud Engineering

Valtech is a leading global agency in the business of digital transformation. We help our client transform their business into a true digital experience. In this mission, we design, build, and run large-scale global experience and commerce platforms in co-creation and co-operation with our clients. Experience and commerce platforms have drastically evolved over the last years in complex ecosystems that tie together multiple services of multiple vendors – also known as MACH or composable architecture. As a founding member of MACH Alliance, a group that educates enterprises on best-of-breed Microservices, APIs, Cloud, and Headless (MACH) technology, Valtech pioneers in how to properly build and manage those complex ecosystems. Site reliability engineering is at the core of our vision for how this modern-day distributed ecosystem should and can be managed.

A day in the life of a Senior Cloud Engineer (Azure)

As a Senior Cloud Engineer (Azure), you are part of a multidisciplinary project team working with software engineers, QA engineers, and frontend engineers on experience and commerce platforms. You will work with Infrastructure as Code (mostly Terraform), support teams in setting up their pipelines, helping them to deploy and scale their applications, design and ensure security on the cloud infrastructure of our client, set up recovery procedures, etc. You’ll work with containerized environments hosted either in Azure PaaS (Container Services, App Service, Azure functions) or on Kubernetes (AKS), although at times you will also work in an IaaS context with VMs.

On top of that, you help teams to grow and incorporate cloud techniques – these teams may contain cloud engineers, but could also consist of DevOps-minded software engineers. You participate in the European cloud team and actively contribute to growing the cloud engineers in that team. You help with advice, estimates, risk analysis, and proactively alert project management around cloud work streams. You’re supporting cloud and solutions architects by assessing their solutions for feasibility and against the competencies and skills of the teams that need to execute them. You sometimes jump into projects to help them overcome a bump in the road and help colleagues to identify problems for what they are, and help them find the appropriate solution and to get the time they need to implement that solution.

Role responsibilities

• Building, changing, and maintaining cloud infrastructures in Azure – compute, data, and networking.
• Setting up logging, monitoring, and security.
• Support and teach teams to set up and maintain their pipelines.
• Coach mid and junior colleagues to improve their technical skills.
• Proactively advise teams, clients, and projects on cloud-related improvements in the areas of performance, availability, security, reliability, and cost effectiveness.
• Help project and service managers to budget and plan cloud work, identify project or SLA risks.
• Coordinate cloud work in a project with multiple cloud engineers.
• The single point of contact for client, project, and service management on cloud topics for a specific project.
• Make sure that documentation is created and maintained.
• Govern automation at the right level and quality.
• Supervise compliance with security standards and client requirements.

Must have qualifications

You and the role

You are someone with at least 5 years of experience as a cloud engineer in Azure. You communicate clearly, transparently, and proactively. You have worked in an environment where you needed to work together with developers to get things done. You have experience with public-facing online applications, high availability, and high traffic. You have a cooperative attitude, a DevOps mindset, and as such, you're interested in the work of others. You communicate easily and can explain technical concepts to non-technical people. You have a clear understanding of what information is needed at which time for a project manager or for the client. You have organizational sensitivity (and can explain what this means).

You have respect for your colleagues and embrace diversity in all its aspects.

To be considered for this role, you must meet the following essential qualifications: 

• You are assertive with good communication skills.
• You have experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform.
• You have solid knowledge of the serverless services of Azure.
• You have knowledge and experience with monitoring systems, such as Application Insights, Azure Monitor, Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, and Tempo.
• You have knowledge of and experience with various pipelining tools, such as GitHub and Azure DevOps.
• You have knowledge of and experience with microservices-related technology: Docker and Kubernetes.
• You have a good conceptual understanding of cloud architecture and system thinking.
• You have worked as an engineer in a DevOps context.
• You have an excellent command of English (C2).
• Are familiar with the following technologies:
  • Container services
  • AKS
  • Azure functions
  • SQL as a service
  • Cosmos DB
  • Azure Monitoring (including APM)
  • AppGW, AFD, NSG, Azure Firewall
• Have worked within the context of publicly accessible, highly available eCommerce and / or experience platforms.
• Have experience working in an international context with on- and off-shore teams.
• You are used to communicate with external clients.

Commitment to reaching all kinds of people 

We design experiences that work for all kinds of people - and that starts with our own teams. At Valtech, we’re intentional about building an inclusive culture where everyone feels supported to grow, thrive and achieve their goals. No matter your background, you belong here. Explore our Diversity & Inclusion site to see how we’re creating a more equitable Valtech for all. 

The benefits  

• Private health insurance
  We hope you will never need it, but nevertheless, we offer private health insurance to all our employees.

• Education program
  We never stop learning, that’s why we offer our employees an educational program with training and certification.

• Wellbeing program
  We all deserve to live a healthy and well-balanced life. It's not an option, it's a necessity!

• Free beverages
  Enjoy free coffee, drinks, and snacks at work, or join one of our famous company dinners.

• Events
  We enjoy spending time together, not only at work. Ski trips, carting, laser-tag, wine tasting, picnics, cooking classes… you name it – we’ve done it! There are plenty of cool events to join and to get to know your colleagues.

• Competitive conditions
  Besides a competitive salary and 24 days of vacation, you will join annual company events with the whole team.

• Challenging projects
  Ready for a challenge? We guarantee you’ll find challenging projects at Valtech!

• Cool colleagues
  What’s the most important thing in a job? Cool colleagues with whom you spent most of the time during the week. We have a lot of them!
  
  
• Honest feedback
  Honesty, openness and respect are among our core values. We encourage an open feedback culture in order to build trust and grow together.
  
  

Your application process

Once you apply, our Talent Acquisition team will review your application. If your skills and experience align with the role, we’ll reach out for next steps. 

⚠️ Beware of recruitment fraud: Only engage with official Valtech email addresses ending in @valtech.com. 

We are committed to inclusion and accessibility. If you need reasonable accommodations during the interview process, please either indicate it in your application or let your Talent Partner know. 

About Valtech

Valtech is the experience innovation company that exists to unlock a better way to experience the world. By blending crafts, categories, and cultures, we help brands unlock new value in an increasingly digital world. 

At the intersection of data, AI, creativity, and technology, we drive transformation for leading organizations, including L’Oréal, Mars, Audi, P&G, Volkswagen Dolby, and more. 

At Valtech, we don’t just talk about transformation. We make it happen. Our people are the heart of our success, and we foster a workplace where everyone has the support to thrive, grow and innovate. 

Are you ready to create what’s next? Join us.