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Senior Cloud Engineer
Nationaal Cyber Security Centrum (NCSC) · Den Haag, ZH, Netherlands
Den Haag, ZH, NetherlandsContract4,818-7,094 EUR/monthlyHybrid
Remuneration
Individual choice budget of 16.5% of gross annual salary, study facilities, fitness facilities, full reimbursement of public transport commuting costs, and partially paid parental leave
Location
Den Haag, ZH, Netherlands
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Senior Cloud Engineer designs, builds, and manages a secure, reliable, cloud-agnostic platform, supporting the transition to hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure. The role includes automating infrastructure with Terraform, OpenTofu, Bicep, and Ansible; developing Git-based workflows and CI/CD pipelines; implementing IAM and hardening Linux and Windows workloads; and improving observability, reliability, and incident response.
Benefits
Individual choice budget of 16.5% of gross annual salaryStudy facilitiesFitness facilitiesFull reimbursement of public transport commuting costsPartially paid parental leave
Qualifications
- Higher professional or university-level working and thinking ability, or equivalent experience.
- Extensive demonstrable Cloud or Infrastructure Engineer experience in large or complex environments.
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, automation, and CI/CD.
- Experience with container platforms such as Kubernetes and with hybrid and multi-cloud architectures.
- Strong security skills, including IAM, network segmentation, and compliance, with consistent application of security-by-design principles.
- Clear communication in Dutch and English.
Responsibilities
- Design and build secure, available, and scalable cloud-agnostic landing zones and hybrid or multi-cloud network architectures.
- Standardize and automate infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code and configuration management; establish Git-based workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
- Implement federated identity, directory services, and PKI; harden Linux and Windows workloads.
- Implement monitoring, logging, and observability, including metrics, tracing, SIEM, and compliance monitoring, and improve reliability and MTTR.
- Manage incident, problem, and change processes; analyze outages, identify root causes, and implement lasting solutions.
- Mentor fellow engineers, promote continuous improvement and self-service, and write documentation and user stories.
Skills
AnsibleBashBicepGitIAMKubernetesLinuxOpenTofuPowerShellPythonTempoTerraformWindowsGitHubGitLabOpenTelemetryPrometheus
Degrees
Higher professional education or university-level working and thinking ability,
Languages
DutchEnglish
Work schedule
36 hours per weekOn-call or availability duties may apply
Industry
Cybersecurity
Contract length
1 year
Security clearance
A or B level security investigation
Relocation
No