We are looking for a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer who will act as a trusted partner to product, security, networking, and finance teams. You will design, implement, and mature cloud platform capabilities, governance, security, automation, and FinOps that enable safe, cost effective, and high velocity cloud adoption. While Azure is our core platform, you bring a cloud agnostic engineering mindset and apply best practices across providers where needed.
Your role- You act as the primary backup to the Cloud Architect, ensuring continuity of standards, decisions, and platform roadmaps.
- You own and evolve Azure landing zones and core platform services with a cloud agnostic approach.
- You implement governance and security guardrails using Azure Policy, RBAC/PIM, management groups, and enterprise scale landing zones.
- You operationalize security tooling such as Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, Key Vault, Private Endpoints, and Conditional Access.
- You build automated, reusable platform components using IaC (Bicep/Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines.
- You design and manage containerized workloads, GitOps governance, and Kubernetes platform standards.
- You drive FinOps practices including tagging, budgets, rightsizing, dashboards, and monthly optimization cycles.
- You enable teams through design reviews, best practice guidance, reference architectures, and L3 platform expertise.
- You bring 7+ years of cloud/platform engineering experience, including 4+ years hands‑on with Azure in enterprise environments.
- You have deep expertise in Azure landing zones, networking, identity, security controls, and IaC tooling.
- You have implemented enterprise grade security guardrails and integrated with SIEM/SOC platforms such as Sentinel.
- You have proven FinOps experience across tagging strategies, anomaly detection, reservations, and cost reporting.
- You script confidently in PowerShell, Python, or Bash.
- You understand modern cloud foundations: networking, identity, secrets management, CI/CD, and reusable modules.
- A competitive salary;
- 29 holidays per year based on a fulltime employment (of which 4 are appointed by Fugro management) and the possibility to purchase 12 additional days;
- Extensive career & training opportunities both nationally and internationally;
- Flexible working hours and the ability to work from home in accordance with your manager and corporate policies;
- Commuting allowance;
- Modern pension scheme;
- Collective health insurance;
- Possibility to register with our corporate fitness plan;
- Coaching options through our EAP (Employee Assistance Program).
Please visit our Company Page to find out more on what it is like to work at Fugro.
If you have any further questions, please contact Umit Nesar, Corporate Recruiter, tel. +31 (0)6 - 81 41 07 68
After you have applied- You will receive an automated confirmation‑email of the receipt of your application.
- When we see a match, we will invite you for the first interview within a couple of days. Of course, you will also receive a message if we will not invite you.
- After a successful first round, you will be invited for the second round.
- If we are both still positive after the second interview, we will make you an offer and with that we hope to welcome you at Fugro!
Fugro does not accept any unsolicited applications from recruitment agencies. Acquisition to Fugro Recruitment or any Fugro employee is not appreciated.
#J-18808-Ljbffr€70000 - €90000 monthly