Senior (Data) Cloud Engineer

Do you want to make an impact with data and help others grow?

At Valcon, we are looking for a Senior (Data) Cloud Engineer who is not only technically strong but also enjoys growing to a higher level together with the team.

Data & AI Strategy: The “European Powerhouse”

Valcon places data at the center of client engagements and focuses on AI and data-driven business transformation.

What will you do?

In this role, you will work on designing and provisioning smart data infrastructure. You will be given the space to supervise projects from start to finish, from translating needs to delivering the solution.

• Build together: You develop infrastructure as code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines to deploy the data infrastructure for the Data and Tech teams. You do this by following industry best practices and principles like zero-trust, passwordless, zero-touch prod, private networking and using the well architecture framework.

• Innovate and improve: You provide scalable solutions for large amounts of data. With your experience, you apply DevOps and CI/CD principles to make work easier and better. In addition, you take the lead in exploring new tools and techniques.

• Mentorship: You like to share your knowledge. You guide junior colleagues in their development and contribute to a culture in which we learn from each other.

What do we offer you?

We think it is important that you feel at home and are given the space to be yourself.

• Personal growth: A tailor-made growth path with training, certifications and mentoring.

• Balance: A workplace that respects your work-life balance. Think of flexibility, such as the possibility of a sabbatical or extending your vacation days.

• Appreciation: A permanent contract after six months, a good salary, bonuses and an expense allowance.

• Mobility: A mobility budget or a lease car.

• Health and fun: An affordable sports subscription (choice of 50 sports) and a lively community with fun events.

• Competitive and transparent salary according to the pay structure, an annual bonus of up to 4 months’ salary (depending on seniority level, individual performance, and company results), and a monthly expense allowance of €95.

• The opportunity to work remotely from abroad for 10 days per year.

Who are you?

You are a recognized expert in your field who easily switches between technology and business. You enjoy sharing your knowledge, for example by speaking at events or writing publications.

Experience

• A completed technical college or university education.

• At least 3+ years of experience in cloud engineering, preferably with data infrastructure.

• Experience with programming languages (such as Terraform, Bash, Python).

• Experience with CI/CD platforms (such as Azure DevOps or Github Actions).

• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS or Google Cloud).

• Knowledge of data infrastructure (e.g. Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, BigQuery or Snowflake).

• You like exploring new and upcoming technologies (closed or open source).

• You are familiar with working in enterprise environments and like working in agile teams.

• You communicate effectively in both Dutch and English.

• Please note: You are currently living in the Netherlands and have a valid work permit.

Keywords

• IaC (Terraform), CI/CD, Azure/AWS, Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, Well-Architected Framework, Mentorship, Zero-Trust