L3 Azure Cloud Engineer / Azure Cloud SME

Contract: 12 months (subject to extension).

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Salary: Not a constraint for the right candidate!

Experience: 8-10 years.

Hybrid: 2 days Work from Home 3 days Work from Office

Your Profile & DNA:

We are looking for an experienced L3 Azure Cloud Engineer / Azure Cloud SME with strong expertise in Azure architecture, cloud governance, security, IaC, automation, and L3 production support.

This is a hands-on role for someone who can design secure and scalable Azure solutions while also troubleshooting complex production issues and driving cloud engineering best practices.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Act as an Azure Cloud SME and provide expert technical guidance.
• Design secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-optimized Azure architectures.
• Architect reusable and modular IaC templates using Bicep and Terraform.
• Define and enforce Azure governance, policies, tagging, naming standards, and cloud guardrails.
• Design and audit secure identity architectures using Microsoft Entra ID.
• Work with Management Groups, Subscriptions, RBAC, Conditional Access, and Managed Identities.
• Drive Zero Trust, encryption, threat protection, and cloud security initiatives.
• Work with Azure Policy, Defender for Cloud, and Microsoft Sentinel.
• Oversee cloud reliability and resilience practices.
• Provide L3 troubleshooting and lead Root Cause Analysis for critical incidents.
• Review Pull Requests and provide technical feedback.
• Promote DevOps best practices, automated validation, testing, and change control.
• Use Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, and other cloud-native tools appropriately.
• Create Product Backlog Items / User Stories and contribute to an Agile way of working.
• Continuously evaluate and adopt new Azure and cloud technologies.

Qualification & Experience

• A Bachelor's or Master's Degree or equivalent.
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Azure
• Strong Azure IaaS & PaaS management and troubleshooting
• Hands-on Bicep & Terraform experience
• Strong Entra ID knowledge
• Azure Policy & cloud governance
• Defender for Cloud & Microsoft Sentinel
• Azure PowerShell / Azure CLI
• Cloud security, Zero Trust, encryption & compliance
• L3 production support and incident troubleshooting
• Root Cause Analysis experience
• DevOps and CI/CD best practices
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Ability to write PBIs / User Stories
• Willingness to learn and adopt new technologies
• The role requires availability for P1 incident on-call support outside normal working hours.

What do we offer?

If your profile matches the job requirement and you are interested to be presented to our clients, then please apply and don’t forget to attach your updated CV in line with the JD!

This position is for 1 year with possibility of extension. We offer competitive Gross Salary in line with the market standard.

Besides that, we offer following benefits, such as:

• 20 days of holiday per year
• Encourage Personal Development - Certification (Certification Charges reimbursed)
• Income Tax Return Filing
• We provide Visa Sponsorship for Candidate & Dependants
• Possibility of bonus

Who we are:

A2G Consulting also known as "A2G Technologies" is one of the fastest growing staffing companies in North Brabant region, Netherlands. We cater to Asia and Europe market focusing on high tech & non-high-tech clientele; headquartered in Eindhoven, Netherlands with a branch office in India (Bangalore & Pune) & Dubai. We successfully find a candidate and ensure that they get opportunities in line with their aspirations. We offer visa sponsorship for local & international candidates for career-enhancing opportunities. We strongly believe in equal opportunities and hence have a pool of resources with diversified ethnicity.

You will be deployed and work at one of our client sites.