Cloud Engineer 3 Months Contract

We are looking for a Cloud Engineer for our client in the Pharma Industry

Job Description:

Experienced platform engineer / cloud engineer for the platform team to ensure a sustainable setup and operation of the DataCore platform. Focus on ensuring that the data mesh / data platform is scalable, robust, reliable and secure.

The ideal profile is quite senior with a strong background in platform engineering, and preferably a solid understanding of data engineering in Databricks as well. This engineer will also contribute to the improvement of the (existing) design for our future data-mesh infrastructure, by proactively identifying and suggesting the improvement points to the current templates and design choices.

Examples of Day-to-day work:

• Update terraform modules to increase security, reliability and useability.
• Partner with down-stream teams for success, decreasing lead time for their use of the platform
• Configure Databricks to ensure it is fit for purpose for the engineering teams
• Design, develop, and maintain cloud-based solutions.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Bicep and Terraform.
• Ensure that cloud-based systems are running optimally.
• Troubleshoot and resolve cloud-based system issues.
• Develop and maintain cloud-based system documentation.
• Create and maintain cloud-based system test plans.
• Analyze and optimize cloud-based system performance.

Requirements (Must haves)

• Experience building, delivering and operating platforms. Could be any kind: Data-mesh platform, Container platform, Monitoring, Data Analytics, etc.

• A solid understanding of concepts like self-service, developer experience on platforms, platform community engagement (know your users), responsibility and boundary setting

• Infrastructure-as-code: Terraform, ARM/Bicep templates, Pulumi

• Software development experience: Any object-oriented language: Python (preferred), C#, Java, Rust, Go

• Cloud infrastructure development: Primarily Azure, MS Entra-ID

• Team-first mindset: We need solid teams, not individual heroes.

• Agile mindset: Profile capabilities (Nice to haves)

• Scripting competencies: Not that important since they get developed together with the other competencies.

Requirements

Required skills

Terraform

Azure

Java

Cloud

Bicep/ARM

Software Development Experience