Cloud Engineer

Building scalable cloud platforms that power data, applications and business growth

At HeadFirst x Impellam, we are building a modern, cloud native platform landscape that enables data driven products, scalable applications and seamless integrations across our international organisation. As a Cloud Engineer, you play a critical role in how applications run, scale and connect within our multi cloud environment. You work at the intersection of platform foundations, application teams and data capabilities, turning cloud services into reliable, production ready building blocks.

You contribute directly to the architecture that underpins our digital ecosystem. By shaping how workloads are designed and operated, you enable teams to build secure, scalable and resilient applications across Azure and AWS.

You work within a platform environment where data and applications are deliberately decoupled. Our Headless Data Architecture, built on Azure and Databricks, exposes data through well defined interfaces, events and APIs. Surrounding this, a growing landscape of custom applications and integrations connects HR systems, vendor platforms and internal products.

Your role sits at the centre of this ecosystem. You enable application teams to adopt cloud native patterns, integrate with the data platform and operate reliably at scale. From observability and deployment strategies to cost optimisation and governance, your engineering decisions shape platform consistency, reliability and long term scalability.

• Design and support cloud native application runtimes across Azure and AWS with a strong PaaS first approach
• Enable development teams to build scalable, secure and well integrated workloads using Azure platform services
• Shape integration patterns between applications, external systems and the data platform using APIs and events
• Improve performance, resilience and reliability of workloads running on both PaaS and selected IaaS components
• Support event driven and API based architectures across the application landscape
• Establish observability practices covering logging, metrics and monitoring
• Work closely with platform and cloud engineers to align workloads with security, networking and governance standards
• Contribute to CI/CD and deployment patterns including blue green, canary and rollback strategies
• Provide guidance on cost aware design and consumption of cloud services
• Help standardise how applications are deployed, integrated and operated across teams

You join an international platform team responsible for enabling modern engineering across HeadFirst x Impellam. The environment is transformation driven, with a strong focus on platform engineering, cloud enablement and data integration. You work with Azure, AWS and Databricks in a setup where engineering decisions have direct business impact and long term architectural significance.

You combine hands on cloud engineering experience with a strong understanding of how applications behave in production environments. You are comfortable operating close to development teams while maintaining a platform wide perspective.

• Professional experience working with Microsoft Azure as a primary cloud platform
• Familiarity with AWS in a multi cloud context
• Hands on experience with Azure PaaS services such as App Service, Container Apps, Functions and API Management
• Background in designing and operating distributed, cloud native application architectures
• Solid understanding of event driven systems and messaging patterns
• Experience with Windows based workloads hosted on cloud infrastructure
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Working understanding of infrastructure as code practices
• Ability to translate functional requirements into scalable and reliable cloud solutions

• A pragmatic engineering mindset that balances architectural quality with delivery speed
• Ownership in how workloads perform, scale and evolve
• Clear communication across platform and application teams
• A collaborative approach in complex technical environments
• Curiosity and drive to continuously improve platforms and engineering practices