
Principal Cloud Engineer
Plain Concepts5 months ago
Remote, SpainStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and lead Azure cloud architectures covering networking, security, governance, IaaS, PaaS, and serverless solutions.
- Ensure the technical quality of proposals, RFP responses, and solution definitions.
- Own Chapter knowledge-sharing and mentoring frameworks and help identify strong technical talent.
- Own infrastructure for AI-powered platforms, including conversational AI, document processing, vector search, and LLM integrations.
- Build CI/CD pipelines and reusable, scalable Infrastructure as Code with Terraform.
- Design and operate production-grade environments with high availability, monitoring, logging, observability, performance, cost optimization, and reliability.
- Collaborate with AI, data, and software teams to productionize ML/LLM solutions and contribute to architecture and technical roadmaps.
- Engage with clients, lead projects independently, and provide technical presales support through demos, solutioning, and proposal writing.
Requirements
- 8+ years of hands-on experience in cloud or platform engineering roles.
- Strong production experience with Microsoft Azure and cloud-native IaaS, PaaS, and serverless architectures.
- Experience with cloud networking, security, governance, Azure DevOps or similar tools, CI/CD, Terraform, and high-traffic production web platforms.
- Experience with technical presales, client engagement, technical proposals, demos, solutioning, and proposal writing.
- Familiarity with AI/ML or LLM-based platforms in production and an MLOps mindset.
- Experience with Agile work and Jira and Confluence.
- Fluent English is mandatory.
- Preferred qualifications include hybrid or multi-cloud experience with AWS or GCP, Kubernetes, GitHub, GitHub Actions, MLOps practices, PowerShell, Bash, Python, Go, .NET, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Prometheus, or Grafana.
Benefits
- Fully remote work with the option to work from offices and a flexible 35-hour work week.
- Flexible compensation for restaurant, transport, and childcare expenses.
- Free health insurance with a co-payment for dental services.
- Individual training or equipment budget and free Microsoft certifications.
- English lessons, birthday day off, and a monthly electricity and internet expense bonus.
- Gym plan and sports activity discounts, annual team-building event, events and conference opportunities, welcome pack, baby basket, Christmas basket, and employee discount portal.
Tech Stack
AWSAzureBashGitHub ActionsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKubernetes.NETPowerShellPrometheusPythonTerraform