smartwith heart
Azure Cloud Architect
Antwerp, Belgium - Technical Services department
Are you passionate about cutting edge cloud technology? Do you get excited about automating everything—from infrastructure to security—while ensuring high availability and performance at scale? Ready to join a place where smart solutions meet human collaboration?
If so, keep reading and you might become our new Azure Cloud Architect.
Our offer
We offer you more than just a job. Our culture and benefits inspire you to become the best version of yourself.
- Continuous learning: Access customized training, coaching programs, and on-the-job development opportunities.
- Flexibility: Flex your schedule with working from home, adaptable hours, and the autonomy to shape your routine.
- Benefits: An attractive salary package including an optional company car, a bike incentive program, additional extralegal vacation days, and other competitive benefits.
- Collaborative culture: Cross-team collaboration and creative challenges that encourage you to share knowledge, celebrate wins, and grow together.
- Innovation: Encouragement to think differently through cross-team collaboration and innovation challenges
- Well-being: Thrive in a workplace that supports your physical and mental health by promoting a wide range of facilities and activities like birthday events, sports sessions, in-house coaches, and healthy meal options.
Our company
We’re a leading game changer that optimizes supply chains with our very own smart software and services. With a team of 1,400+ passionate, creative minds from over 70 nationalities, we help the world’s largest companies to run their supply chains more efficiently and sustainably. Our customers include BASF, Johnson & Johnson, L’Oréal, Nestlé, and Procter & Gamble. Ready to be smart with heart? Join our team where technical expertise and human connection create solutions that scale globally and make a lasting impression.
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Your challenge
As an Azure Cloud Architect, you are responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing our cloud-based solutions. This role requires a deep understanding of cloud architectures, DevOps practices, security, scalability, and automation. You interact with development, security, and infrastructure teams to build robust, high-performing, and cost-efficient cloud environments. You work together in close collaboration with our Platform Architects and our Platform Operations team, which oversees our cloud infrastructure.
You are responsible for:
- Designing and implementing scalable, secure, and high availability cloud solutions.
- Defining best practices for security, compliance, operations, and reliability.
- Building infrastructure as code and automation.
- Optimizing cloud workloads for cost, performance, and scalability.
- Training and mentoring junior engineers on cloud practices and operations.
About you
Essential talents and qualifications:
- A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a field related to Computer Science.
- 6+ years of work experience in cloud engineering, architecture, or DevOps.
- Expertise with Microsoft Azure.
- Comprehensive experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, and container orchestration.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a growing and fast-paced environment.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines.
Bonus points if you have:
- Cloud certifications.
- Experience with leading a small team.
- Experience with Helm, Ansible, and other automation tools.
- Customer support experience.
- Programming and scripting skills.
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Your future
We find the perfect intersection of your talents and our evolving needs. Our talent management program supports your personal development and empowers you to build a career in line with your ambitions.Many of our team members who start as Cloud Engineers grow into roles in cloud architecture, consulting, project management, or people management.