Azure Cloud Engineer/Architect

Lead with expertise, drive innovation.

• Seeking Azure professionals for Engineering & Architecture roles
• Location: Amsterdam (with travel to client location around the Netherlands)
• Experience level: Medior - Senior
• Work hours: 40 hours per week
• Language: English mandatory, strong preference for Dutch speaking candidates

·         Design and deliver secure, scalable Azure platforms and landing zones aligned with enterprise architecture, security and compliance requirements.

·         Translate client needs into practical cloud architectures, technical roadmaps and implementation plans.

·         Build and automate cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform or Bicep, and CI/CD pipelines.

·         Lead or support cloud migration and modernisation activities across infrastructure, identity, networking, security and operations.

·         Work directly with client stakeholders and multidisciplinary delivery teams, providing technical direction, clear communication and pragmatic decision-making.

·         Mentor engineers, promote reusable engineering standards and contribute to Azure and platform-engineering capability development within Intelligent Infrastructure Services.

·         Travel to client locations within the Netherlands when required for workshops, delivery and stakeholder engagement.

This role sits within Digital Core and Intelligent Infrastructure Services (IIS). We help clients modernise their infrastructure foundations, accelerate cloud adoption and create secure, automated platforms that enable broader business and technology transformation.

You will work in a multidisciplinary team of cloud engineers, architects, security specialists, network specialists, consultants and project leads. Together, you will solve complex infrastructure challenges and deliver measurable outcomes for clients.

We go to market by industry, leveraging Accenture’s global delivery network and strategic partnerships with ecosystem leaders such as Microsoft, AWS and Google. Our culture of shared success and continuous learning ensures that every team member contributes to and benefits from our reinvention journey.

·         Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a comparable field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.

·         Experience: Significant hands-on experience designing, building or transforming Microsoft Azure environments in complex enterprise settings.

·         Skills: Strong knowledge of landing zones, subscriptions and management groups, identity and access management, networking, security, governance, monitoring and resilience. Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code and DevOps practices, preferably Terraform and/or Bicep, Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, and scripting such as PowerShell or Python.

·         Leadership: Strong stakeholder management, structured communication and collaboration skills, with the confidence to advise and challenge clients constructively.

·         Language: Professional English is required. Dutch language capability is strongly preferred for Netherlands-based and public-sector client environments.

·         Mobility: Willingness to travel to client sites within the Netherlands as part of this client-facing role.

·         Microsoft certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Network Engineer Associate, Azure Security Engineer Associate or DevOps Engineer Expert.

·         Experience with Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift, hybrid cloud, sovereign cloud, cloud migration factories or platform product models.

·         Experience in regulated industries, public-sector environments or large-scale transformation programmes.

·         Knowledge of FinOps, cloud operating models, site reliability engineering or service-management integration.

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