Cloud/Platform Engineer – Azure Data Platform
Summary
Hybrid (2–3 days onsite per week in Belgium) platform engineer role building and running an Azure data platform: designing Terraform IaC, CI/CD pipelines, Databricks/Unity Catalog, AKS/Kubernetes, Entra ID and Azure networking, while supporting data, analytics and AI/ML workloads. Requires English plus Dutch at C1/C2/native level.
Work Regime: Full-time, 2–3 days onsite per week
Languages: English and Dutch C1/C2/Native
- Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure Cloud Infrastructure.
- Solid experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), including reusable modules and infrastructure lifecycle management.
- Strong understanding of Git, branching strategies, pull requests, and code reviews.
- Proven experience designing, implementing, and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines.
- Databricks architecture and Unity Catalog.
- Workspace administration and access management.
- Compute, networking, and infrastructure automation.
- Platform-level troubleshooting and architectural decision-making.
- Strong problem-solving skills, technical ownership, and the ability to investigate complex issues independently.
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
- Azure networking, VNets, DNS, NSGs, Private Endpoints, and Azure Firewall.
- Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC, Managed Identities, and workload identity federation.
- Docker, Kubernetes, AKS, Helm, and GitOps tools such as Argo CD or Flux.
- Data platform engineering, lakehouse architecture, MLflow, Apache Spark, and Azure Data Factory.
- Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, scripting, monitoring, and observability tools.
- Design, implement, and maintain Azure infrastructure using Terraform.
- Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
- Develop reusable infrastructure modules and standardized platform components.
- Support data engineering, analytics, AI/ML, and application workloads.
- Improve platform security, reliability, observability, and cost efficiency.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure and deployment issues while collaborating with engineering teams.
Ideal Candidate: A hands-on engineer with strong Azure, Databricks, Terraform, and CI/CD fundamentals, demonstrating technical depth, automation-first thinking, ownership, and a commitment to quality.
Skills
- AI
- AKS
- Analytics
- Argo CD
- Automation
- Azure
- Azure Data Factory
- Azure DevOps
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Data Engineering
- Databricks
- DevOps
- DNS
- Docker
- Entra ID
- Firewall
- Flux
- Git
- GitHub
- GitHub Actions
- GitOps
- Helm
- Infrastructure as Code
- Kubernetes
- Lakehouse
- Machine Learning
- MLflow
- Networking
- Observability
- RBAC
- Spark
- Terraform
- Unity
- Unity Catalog