Senior Cloud Engineer

As Cloud System Engineer, you will design and lead our OS Image Factory: an automated platform that builds hardened Linux and Windows images used by our customers across multi-tenant, multi-account environments worldwide. Azure is the primary platform, AWS is in production and GCP is coming next.

• Design and evolve the Image Factory architecture, primarily on Azure, with AWS in production and GCP on the roadmap.
• Build automated image pipelines with Packer, Ansible and GitHub Actions, on top of managed services (Azure VM Image Builder, AWS EC2 Image Builder).
• Harden Windows Server and Linux images as code against CIS Benchmarks, DISA STIG and Microsoft security baselines.
• Publish and distribute images across subscriptions, accounts and tenants in multiple regions (Azure Compute Gallery, AMI sharing with AWS Organizations).
• Define image standards, versioning, promotion across environments (dev, test, prod) and retirement policies.
• Manage the image lifecycle: monthly patching, critical CVE rebuilds, automated testing and vulnerability scanning.
• Enforce the use of approved images through Azure Policy and AWS guardrails.
• Prepare GCP onboarding with a single, cloud-agnostic Packer and Ansible codebase.
• Enable customers to consume images in self-service, with clear documentation and release notes.
• Collaborate with Cloud, Security and Platform Engineering teams, and drive adoption with customer teams.
• Lead and mentor the SysOps / DevOps engineers operating the factory.
• Use AI solutions to accelerate and optimise the Image Factory.
• Leverage AI capabilities to enhance and streamline automated patching and image update processes.
• Master's studies in computer science or similar.
• Eight or more years of experience in cloud infrastructure, systems engineering or DevOps, including three or more years designing OS image pipelines in production.
• Experience with large multi-subscription / multi-account, multi-region environments.

Technical Skills

• Cloud platform : Expert in Microsoft Azure (VM Image Builder, Compute Gallery, Azure Policy, Entra ID); AWS (EC2 Image Builder, AMIs, Organizations); GCP good to have
• Image build & IaC : Packer, Ansible, Terraform
• OS : Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, SUSE) & Windows Server expertise, security hardening (CIS, STIG) and image patch management
• Security : Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• CI/CD : GitHub Actions
• Programming : Python, Bash, PowerShell
• Versioning : Git
• Steering : Jira, Confluence, Scrum methodology

Professional Attributes

• Able to design a target architecture while staying hands-on.
• Product mindset: thinks in terms of customers, releases and service levels.
• Speaks English fluently.
• Skilled in qualifying customer needs and explaining security trade-offs, with strong communication and leadership abilities.
• Experienced in mentoring engineers and working with distributed, international teams.
• Open to change, proactive, and a driving force within a team.