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(Internal position) Principal Cloud Engineer

Plain Concepts is a global IT professional services company founded in 2006, specializing in innovative technological solutions like AI, Big Data, Cloud, and Mixed Reality to help businesses transform and improve productivity.

Plain Concepts

Employee count: 201-500

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🚀 We’re Growing Our Cloud Dream Team!As part of our international Cloud/DevOps squad, 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.

This role is for engineers who enjoy owning architecture decisions, working close to product and AI teams, and pushing cloud platforms to the next level.

Here’s the deal:

  • You'll tackle the unique challenges of cloud infrastructure, working alongside a team of brilliant minds to build scalable and reliable solutions.
  • You’ll dive into cutting-edge projects using the latest tech to push boundaries and make an impact.
  • Whether you prefer working from home or vibing with us at our offices, the choice is yours.
  • AGILE isn’t just a buzzword here — it’s how we roll. Multidisciplinary teams? Check. Full ownership of projects? Double check.

You will be responsible for:

  • 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

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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Founded in 2006 by four Microsoft MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals), Plain Concepts embarked on a mission to empower companies by facilitating the adoption of new technologies to enhance their productivity and internal processes. From its inception, the company, initially led by CEO Pablo Peláez, who also served as a Microsoft Regional Director, aimed to deliver innovative and engaging custom solutions for a wide array of digital needs, always with a keen focus on incorporating the latest technological advancements. This commitment to cutting-edge technology and a highly skilled workforce, including numerous Microsoft MVPs and certified professionals, quickly established Plain Concepts as a significant player in the tech industry.

Over the years, Plain Concepts expanded its footprint significantly, growing from its origins in León, Spain, to establish a global presence with offices across Spain (Madrid, Bilbao, Barcelona, Seville, Santander, A Coruña, Zaragoza), the USA (Seattle), the United Kingdom (London), Germany, the Netherlands, the UAE (Dubai), Australia, and Romania. This expansion was fueled by a broad portfolio of successful projects spanning various sectors, including media, telecommunications, banking, retail, and large enterprises. The company's expertise in areas like Artificial Intelligence, Mixed Reality, Big Data, Blockchain, IoT, and Cloud solutions garnered them recognition, including the prestigious Microsoft Partner of the Year award in 2016. By 2019, Plain Concepts had grown to over 350 employees and achieved a turnover exceeding €25 million. A pivotal moment in their journey was the acquisition of a majority stake by ABE Capital Partners in late 2020, a move intended to bolster international expansion and further professionalize the company. In October 2022, after 16 years, Pablo Peláez passed the CEO baton to Quique Martínez Alén, who had been with the company for a decade, to steer Plain Concepts towards its next level of growth and solidify its position as a global leader in technological innovation. The company closed 2021 with a turnover of over €31 million and aimed to reach 500 employees by the end of 2022, continually attracting top talent with appealing benefits and challenging projects in emerging technologies.

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