Staff Cloud Engineer

Office

Lisboa, Portugal

Full Time

🌟 Opportunity : Cloud Engineer

Our client is a global leader and fast-growing Belgian multinational committed to excellence in EHS compliance. With a diverse team spanning over 40 nationalities, they strive to be the world's foremost partner in environmental, health, and safety compliance, fostering a secure and innovative work environment.

🚀 Responsibilities :

Technical Leadership & Strategy:

Define cloud architecture blueprints and ensure consistency across teams and projects

Align infrastructure strategy with business priorities

Lead design reviews and advise on cost-performance-reliability trade-offs

Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and propose adoption strategies

Infrastructure as Code & Automation:

Set standards for IaC (Terraform, Bicep) and GitOps workflows

Drive adoption of automated, idempotent infrastructure practices

Develop reusable modules and templates for provisioning

Platform Reliability & Observability:

Define SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets

Promote observability (monitoring, logging, tracing) best practices

Reduce downtime and manual toil through automation

Security & Compliance:

Integrate security and compliance into infrastructure by default

Collaborate with InfoSec to maintain cloud security standards

Cost & Performance Optimization:

Define FinOps best practices and monitor cloud spend

Optimize infrastructure usage and recommend cost-saving strategies

Mentoring & Knowledge Sharing:

Mentor engineers and support their technical growth

Lead internal workshops and technical talks to upskill the wider team

👤 Profile Sought :

Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Master’s preferred)

Experience :

7+ years in Cloud/Platform Engineering; 2+ years in a technical leadership role

Technical Skills :

Strong knowledge of Azure; AWS/GCP a plus
IaC: Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates

Containers: Docker, Kubernetes

Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk
CI/CD: Azure DevOps, ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions
Networking: VNet/SNet setup, DNS, routing, peering
Security & HA/DR: Security-first mindset with experience in HA and DR solutions

Nice To Have :

Proficiency in Python, Go, or .NET
Familiarity with FinOps, ISO 27001, SOC2
Certifications: Azure Solutions Architect, Azure Security Engineer, Azure DevOps Engineer
Fluent in English (Portuguese is a plus).

🌍 Benefits & Culture :

A commitment to diversity and equal opportunity.
A vibrant, inclusive environment that fosters innovation and continuous learning.
Opportunities for professional growth and skill development.

💼 Department: Tech

📍 Location: Lisbon (Hybrid work model)

📆 Starting date: ASAP