Senior Cloud Engineer

Company Description

Software Mind develops solutions that make an impact for companies around the globe. Tech giants & unicorns, transformative projects, emerging technologies and limitless opportunities – these are a few words that describe an average day for us. Building cross-functional engineering teams that take ownership and crave more means we're always on the lookout for talented people who bring passion and creativity to every project. Our culture embraces openness, acts with respect, shows grit & guts and combines employment with enjoyment.

Project – the aim you'll have

Join a project for a Netherlands-based client as part of the Cloud Mind Service Unit. You'll work in a team maintaining, evolving, and scaling client Azure environments, integrating advanced AI where impactful. The role offers hands-on work with cutting-edge cloud technologies, supporting entrepreneurs in digital transformation. Work is remote from Poland/EU, with occasional on-site collaboration possible. Key selling points: innovative cloud projects, international client, and a focus on automation and AI enablement.

Job Description

Position – how you'll contribute

• Own reliability and scale of Azure platforms: design for resilience, capacity, performance, and cost efficiency; drive SLO/SLA alignment and continuous improvement.
• Lead automation-first operations: design and maintain Terraform module libraries, enforce IaC standards, and build CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps) for provisioning infrastructure.
• Engineer secure landing zones: implement and evolve Azure enterprise-scale landing zones aligned with CAF and Landing Zone Standard (identity, RBAC, policy, networking, guardrails).
• Improve platform architecture: hub - and-spoke networking, Private Link/Endpoints, Azure Firewall/App Gateway/WAF, Key Vault/Managed HSM, backup/DR patterns, and data protection.
• Establish observability: Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, alerts, dashboards, and KQL.
• Improve security: create baseline security and secrets management model (Defender for Cloud, Entra ID, Key Vault).
• Mentor and uplift: guide mid/junior engineers, lead technical workshops with client teams, and contribute to internal playbooks and standards.
• Partner with delivery: collaborate with other engineers to create coherent, secure DevOps workflows and support solution reviews, estimations, and presales when needed.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of hands-on experience in IT projects, including 5+ years as a Cloud/Platform/DevOps Engineer focused on Microsoft Azure in live environments.
• Proven track record implementing, operating, and optimizing cloud platforms at enterprise scale (multi-subscription/tenant, policy & RBAC, governance).
• Practical experience designing and managing Landing Zones aligned with CAF and enterprise guardrails.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code with Terraform (modules, workspaces), and CI/CD (Azure) for infrastructure and applications.
• Solid knowledge across networking (VNet design, routing, DNS, VPN/ExpressRoute, Private Link), identity (Entra ID, PIM, conditional access), security (Defender for Cloud, baseline hardening, secret management), and observability (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, alerting).
• Experience authoring clear technical documents: architecture diagrams, runbooks, how-to guides.
• English B2+/C1; comfortable collaborating with international stakeholders.
• Hands-on with containers (Docker) and Kubernetes/AKS operations (upgrades, node pools, ingress, autoscaling) or willingness to ramp quickly.
• Scripting in PowerShell and/or Python for automation and tooling.
• One or more Azure certifications examples: Azure Administrator (AZ-104), Azure Solutions Architect (AZ-305), Azure DevOps Engineer (AZ-400); Security (AZ-500) or CKA/CKAD are a plus.

Additional skills – the edge you have

• Platform engineering mindset (golden paths, reusable templates, paved roads).
• Experience with FinOps (cost governance, budgets, tagging, rightsizing).
• Exposure to AI/ML workloads (Azure OpenAI/AI Services) from an infrastructure perspective.
• Familiarity with ITIL practices in a managed services context.

Additional Information

Our offer – professional development, personal growth

• Flexible employment and remote work.
• International projects with leading global clients.
• International business trips.
• Non-corporate atmosphere.
• Language classes.
• Internal & external training.
• Private healthcare and insurance.
• Multisport card.
• Well-being initiatives.

Position at: Software Mind Poland

This role requires candidates to be based in the European Union.