(Internal position) Principal Cloud Engineer

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Responsibilities

• ▹Design and lead cloud architectures on Azure, covering networking, security, governance, IaaS, PaaS and serverless solutions
• ▹Ensure the technical quality of proposals, RFP responses and solution definitions within the discipline
• ▹Own the shared knowledge strategy of the Chapter, ensuring relevant content, documentation and best practices
• ▹Lead the mentoring framework within the Chapter, guiding senior engineers to support practitioners at all levels
• ▹Help identify strong technical talent across the company
• ▹Identify emerging trends and opportunities, validating new services, accelerators and reusable assets
• ▹Own the infrastructure of AI-powered platforms (RAG, document ingestion and vector search, LLM provider integration)
• ▹Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure, following DevSecOps best practices
• ▹Develop Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) focused on reusability and scalability
• ▹Design and operate production-grade environments with high availability, monitoring, logging and cost optimization
• ▹Collaborate closely with AI, data and software teams to productionize ML/LLM solutions
• ▹Propose improvements and new technical approaches, contributing to architectural decisions and technical roadmaps

Requirements

• ▹Strong experience with Microsoft Azure in real production environments
• ▹8+ years of hands-on experience in Cloud/Platform Engineering roles
• ▹Ability to engage with clients, understand their needs, and design technical proposals tailored to business goals
• ▹Experience in technical presales, including demos, solutioning and proposal writing
• ▹Capable of leading projects independently and mentoring other engineers
• ▹Proven experience designing and implementing IaaS, PaaS and cloud-native architectures
• ▹Solid knowledge of networking, security and governance models in cloud environments
• ▹Experience with Azure DevOps or similar and CI/CD practices
• ▹Strong background in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• ▹Experience monitoring and operating high-traffic production environments

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Choice of work location (home or office)
• ▹Agile, multidisciplinary team culture with full project ownership

About the company

Plain Concepts is growing its international Principal Engineers team, which crafts tailor-made solutions for clients; engineers tackle cloud infrastructure challenges using the latest technologies in agile, multidisciplinary teams.