Passionate about digital, data, IoT or AI and willing to join a dynamic and ambitious team on a human scale? 

For more than 15 years, we have been advising companies and administrations and supporting them in the implementation of their transformation projects in Brussels and abroad.   

 To do so, we rely both on technological leverage and on the strength of our DNA based on collective intelligence, agility and entrepreneurial spirit.   

With a presence on five continents and more than 4,000 employees, our goal is to reach more than a €1 billion revenue by 2024. Innovation is at the heart of our development and we are involved in areas linked to the technological changes of major groups, such as Big Data, IoT, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence.  

 Our values & playfields: 

• Intelligence collective 
• Agility 
• Entrepreneurship /Intrapreneurship 
• Promote diversity/mixity (Support to the Fondation femmes@Numerique...) 
• Commitment (employees, partners, schools, associations...)  
• Respect for human beings and quality of life at work  
• Open-mindedness and inclusiveness   

Together, let’s build Talan’s future

The Azure Platform Engineer will build, manage and support Just Group’s expanding Azure Enterprise Data Platform.

Job Role Accountabilities
Manage the Azure Cloud Infrastructure so it is available during core business hours
Define and implement Azure analytics standards, patterns, naming conventions and cost governance
Define, implement and manage ARM templates for deployment of Azure analytics resources
Review solution designs and ensure they adhere to standards
Provide Level 2/3 support to the platform and escalate issues to Microsoft as necessary
Define, communicate and execute the Azure analytics platform technical roadmap
Ensure Cloud integrity and security and ensure data is effectively protected
AUTH and SAML-based Authentication and Configuration
Azure DevOps support – supporting the CI/CD pipeline, and git integrations

Examples of Key Activities
Ensure that the bottlenecks in the cloud infrastructure are identified and fine-tuning is done for optimal performance
Deployment and configuration of cloud services using automation pipelines
Ongoing configuration and maintenance of Azure cloud services
Azure Storage and capacity planning, backup and Disaster Recovery
Deploy resources and repeatable deployments with ARM and/or Terraform templates

Work on Microsoft Azure Networking
Design virtual networks to support workloads with the highest security and performance
Configure hybrid connectivity between on-premises environments and Azure, and monitor
network performance to comply with service-level agreements
Dive into automation technology options within Azure, including delivery automation via yaml pipelines
Produce configuration design documentation for proposed solutions
Azure subscription administration
Implementation and maintenance of cloud security infrastructure and defined security policy (DLP, CASB)
SQL Database Infrastructure administration on-prem and cloud deployments

Support Solution Architecture Team
Integration of monitoring tools into security monitoring platforms
Creating Python code for testing

Qualifications
Essential for the role
Bachelor/Master’s degree with high computing content or equivalent
experience in a software/system engineering profession

Azure Administration experience & certifications (AZ-104 etc.)
Azure security experience/certifications (AZ-500 etc.)

Desirable
 Data Governance/Data Management
certification
GDPR/Data Protection qualification
Agile certification
Windows Server deployment and maintenance (Windows Server
Administration certification)

Skills and Knowledge
Azure AD and Microsoft on-premise AD
Azure fundamentals:
Azure Active Directory SSO
Azure Storage accounts
Azure VPN
Azure Remote Desktop Services (RDS)
Azure Virtual Machines
Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
Infrastructure-as-code technologies (Terraform, Arm, Azure DevOps)
General git and repositories management
Scripting knowledge: bash, PowerShell, Azure CLI
Familiarity with Azure Networking: subnets/vnets, load balancers, firewall, private links, DNS
Awareness of working towards recognised security accreditations and adopting and
implementing IT security best practice
Cloud networking and desire to develop skillset
Cloud monitoring tools
Platform security, DLP & MFA
VDI platforms (e.g., Azure Virtual Desktop, VMware ESX and Horizon VDI Platforms)
Experience
Azure cloud migration – Hands-on and planning level experience essential. In-depth experience of deploying and managing Azure in a hybrid environment and moving to a full cloud platform
Good hands-on experience of Microsoft technology and terminology
Previous experience of deploying an Azure data platform
Experience in deploying Microsoft Purview is desirable
Previous experience working in a regulated environment is desirable

Skills and Knowledge
Azure AD and Microsoft on-premise AD
Azure fundamentals:
Azure Active Directory SSO
Azure Storage accounts
Azure VPN
Azure Remote Desktop Services (RDS)
Azure Virtual Machines
Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
Infrastructure-as-code technologies (Terraform, Arm, Azure DevOps)
General git and repositories management
Scripting knowledge: bash, PowerShell, Azure CLI
Familiarity with Azure Networking: subnets/vnets, load balancers, firewall, private links, DNS
Awareness of working towards recognised security accreditations and adopting and
implementing IT security best practice
Cloud networking and desire to develop skillset
Cloud monitoring tools
Platform security, DLP & MFA
VDI platforms (e.g., Azure Virtual Desktop, VMware ESX and Horizon VDI Platforms)
Experience
Azure cloud migration – Hands-on and planning level experience essential. In-depth experience of deploying and managing Azure in a hybrid environment and moving to a full cloud platform
Good hands-on experience of Microsoft technology and terminology
Previous experience of deploying an Azure data platform
Experience in deploying Microsoft Purview is desirable
Previous experience working in a regulated environment is desirable