Plain Concepts

Principal Cloud Engineer

Plain Concepts

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Spain

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKubernetes.NETPrometheusPythonTerraform

About the role

  • Design and lead cloud architectures on Azure, covering networking, security, governance, IaaS, PaaS and serverless solutions.
  • Own the infrastructure of AI-powered platforms, including conversational AI systems with: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Document ingestion, processing and 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 and observability and cost optimization and reliability.
  • Collaborate closely with AI, data and software teams to productionize 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.
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in Cloud / DevOps / Platform Engineering roles.
  • 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) 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.
  • Very 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.).
  • A proactive mindset: autonomy, technical leadership and continuous improvement.
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Hard Skills & Tools
cloud architectureIaaSPaaSInfrastructure as CodeTerraformCI/CDDevSecOpsMLOpsscriptingsoftware development
Soft Skills
proactive mindsettechnical leadershipcontinuous improvementcollaborationownershipcommunication