Cloud Engineer
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Building scalable cloud platforms that drive data, applications, and business growth
At HeadFirst x Impellam, we are building a modern, cloud-native platform landscape that enables data-driven products, scalable applications, and seamless integrations across our international organization. As a Cloud Engineer, you play a critical role in how applications run, scale, and connect within our multi-cloud environment. You work at the intersection of platform foundations, application teams, and data capabilities, turning cloud services into reliable, production-ready building blocks.
Your impact
You play a direct role in shaping the architecture that underpins our digital ecosystem. By influencing how workloads are designed and operated, you enable teams to build secure, scalable, and resilient applications across Azure and AWS.
You work in a platform environment where data and applications are intentionally decoupled. Our Headless Data Architecture, built on Azure and Databricks, exposes data through well-defined interfaces, events, and APIs. Surrounding this, a growing ecosystem of custom applications and integrations connects HR systems, vendor platforms, and internal products.
Your role is at the heart of this ecosystem. You enable application teams to adopt cloud-native patterns, integrate with the data platform, and operate reliably at scale. From observability and deployment strategies to cost optimization and governance, your engineering decisions shape the platform’s consistency, reliability, and long-term scalability.
What you will do
Design and support cloud-native application runtimes across Azure and AWS with a strong PaaS-first approach
Enable development teams to build scalable, secure, and well-integrated workloads using Azure platform services
Design integration patterns between applications, external systems, and the data platform using APIs and events
Improve the performance, resilience, and reliability of workloads running on both PaaS and selected IaaS components
Support event-driven and API-based architectures across the application landscape
Establish observability practices that include logging, metrics, and monitoring
Work closely with platform and cloud engineers to ensure that workloads comply with security, networking, and governance standards
Contribute to CI/CD and deployment patterns, including blue-green, canary, and rollback strategies
Provide guidance on cost-conscious design and use of cloud services
Help standardize how applications are deployed, integrated, and operated across teams
About the role
You will join an international platform team responsible for enabling modern engineering across HeadFirst x Impellam. The environment is transformation-driven, with a strong focus on platform engineering, cloud enablement, and data integration. You will work with Azure, AWS, and Databricks in a setting where engineering decisions have a direct business impact and long-term architectural significance.
This is what you get from us
Salary that matches your experience
You will receive a salary range that matches your knowledge and experience. We reward you fairly for your commitment and development.
You will receive a salary range that matches your knowledge and experience. We reward you fairly for your commitment and development.
Vacation pay and days off
You will receive 8.33% vacation pay and are entitled to 27 vacation days per year based on full-time employment. This gives you plenty of time to recharge your batteries.
You will receive 8.33% vacation pay and are entitled to 27 vacation days per year based on full-time employment. This gives you plenty of time to recharge your batteries.
Hybrid working
We support hybrid working and apply a 60/40 split, whereby full-time employees spend three days at the office and two days working from home.
We support hybrid working and apply a 60/40 split, whereby full-time employees spend three days at the office and two days working from home.
Premium-freepension
We pay your entire pension premium. This means you accrue pension without having to contribute to it yourself. As a result, you are left with a higher net salary.
We pay your entire pension premium. This means you accrue pension without having to contribute to it yourself. As a result, you are left with a higher net salary.
Performancebonus
Depending on your performance and that of HeadFirst Group, you may receive an annual bonus of one or two months' salary.
Depending on your performance and that of HeadFirst Group, you may receive an annual bonus of one or two months' salary.
Monthly extras
You will receive a monthly allowance for internet, a vitality budget, a contribution towards lunch, and support in setting up your home office.
You will receive a monthly allowance for internet, a vitality budget, a contribution towards lunch, and support in setting up your home office.
What we expect from you
What you bring
You combine hands-on cloud engineering experience with a strong understanding of how applications behave in production environments. You are comfortable working closely with development teams while maintaining a platform-wide perspective.
Professional experience working with Microsoft Azure as the primary cloud platform
Familiarity with AWS in a multi-cloud environment
Hands-on experience with Azure PaaS services such as App Service, Container Apps, Functions, and API Management
Experience in designing and operating distributed, cloud-native application architectures
Solid understanding of event-driven systems and messaging patterns
Experience with Windows-based workloads hosted on cloud infrastructure
Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
Practical understanding of infrastructure-as-code practices
Ability to translate functional requirements into scalable and reliable cloud solutions
What you offer as a professional
A pragmatic engineering mindset that balances architectural quality with delivery speed
Ownership of how workloads perform, scale, and evolve
Clear communication across platform and application teams
A collaborative approach in complex technical environments
Curiosity and a drive to continuously improve platforms and engineering practices
The application process
Submit application
We will contact youwithin 48 hours.
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Assessment
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Your benefits at HeadFirst Group
27 vacation days
AND the possibility of adding or selling days. We work hard, but don't forget to relax.
Moments of celebration
With more than 450 colleagues, we always have something to to celebrate. As one team, we celebrate birthdays, anniversaries and other successes!
OpenUp & HeadFirst Group Academy
Work on your mental health with access to the platform OpenUp. We learn every day, which is why we offer you free trainings and courses to keep developing yourself.
Bonus
Achieve your goals and see this reflected in the form of a bonus? That's possible with us! Hard work is rewarded.
Hybrid working
Work at one of our 4 locations, at home, or at any wherever you feel comfortable. Of course you will receive a mobility and home working allowance from us.
Our headquarters
Take advantage of the free sports facilities, fine workstations and enjoy a delicious lunch buffet. A formidable competitor of home!
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