Principal Cloud Engineer
2 days ago
Madrid
We're Growing Our Cloud Dream Team! As part of our international Principal Engineers team, you'll craft tailor‑made solutions that wow our clients. We’re hunting for a passionate Principal Cloud Engineer with a solid technical background. Your mission is not just to build infrastructure — but to design, evolve and scale cloud‑native and AI‑driven platforms that are secure, resilient, and production‑ready. Responsibilities Design and lead cloud architectures on Azure, covering networking, security, governance, IaaS, PaaS and serverless solutions. Ensure the technical quality of proposals, RFP responses and solution definitions within the discipline. Own the shared knowledge strategy of the Chapters, ensuring relevant content, documentation and best practices are available. Lead the mentoring framework within the Chapter, enabling senior engineers to guide practitioners at all levels. Help to identify strong technical talent across the company that aligns with the discipline. Identify emerging trends and opportunities, validating new services, accelerators and reusable assets. Own the infrastructure of AI‑powered platforms, including conversational AI systems with Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG), document ingestion, processing, vector search and integration with LLM providers and AI services. Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines for both application and infrastructure, following DevSecOps best practices. Develop Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) with a strong focus on reusability, scalability and maintainability. Design and operate production‑grade environments, ensuring high availability and performance, monitoring, logging, observability, cost optimization and reliability. Collaborate closely with AI, data and software teams to productionise ML/LLM solutions (MLOps mindset). Actively propose improvements and new technical approaches, contributing to architectural decisions and technical roadmaps. Work in Agile, autonomous, multidisciplinary teams, with real ownership from design to production. Requirements Strong experience with Microsoft Azure in real production environments. 8+ years of hands‑on experience in Cloud / Platform Engineering roles. Ability to engage with clients, understand their needs, and design technical proposals tailored to business goals. Experience in technical presales, including demos, solutioning, and proposal writing. Capable of leading projects independently and mentoring other engineers. Proven experience designing and implementing IaaS, PaaS and cloud‑native architectures. Solid knowledge of networking, security and governance models in cloud environments. Experience with Azure DevOps (Repos, Pipelines) or similar and CI/CD practices. Strong background in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform). Experience monitoring and operating high‑traffic, production web platforms. Familiarity with AI/ML or LLM‑based platforms in production environments. Comfortable working with Agile methodologies, Jira and Confluence. Fluent English (mandatory) — you'll work daily with international teams and clients. Nice to have Experience in hybrid and multi‑cloud environments (AWS / GCP). Kubernetes and container orchestration knowledge. Experience with GitHub and GitHub Actions. MLOps practices (model lifecycle, deployment, monitoring, retraining). Scripting skills (PowerShell, Bash, Python). Software development background (Python, Go, .NET or similar). Experience with observability tools (Azure Monitor, App Insights, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.). Proactive mindset: autonomy, technical leadership and continuous improvement. Benefits Salary determined by the market and your experience Flexible schedule 35 Hours / Week Fully remote work (optional) Flexible compensation (restaurant, transport, and childcare) ✌ Fully free health insurance, with a co‑payment for dental services Individual budget for training or equipment and free Microsoft certifications English lessons Birthday day off Monthly bonus for electricity and Internet expenses at home Discount on gym plan and sports activities Plain Camp (annual team‑building event) Extra perks: events attendance and speakers, welcome pack, baby basket, Christmas basket, discount portal for employees ➕ The pleasure of always working with the latest technological tools! At Plain Concepts, we certainly seek to provide equal opportunities. We want diverse applicants regardless of race, colour, gender, religion, national origin, citizenship, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law. #J-18808-Ljbffr