Senior Cloud Engineer
Key Skills
Job Description
At PPHE Hotel Group, technology plays a critical role in delivering exceptional guest experiences across our portfolio of hotels, resorts, and hospitality destinations. As we continue to invest in our cloud-first strategy, we're looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to help shape, secure, and optimise our multi-cloud environment. This is an exciting opportunity for a hands-on cloud specialist who thrives on solving complex technical challenges, driving automation, and building scalable, secure solutions. Working across Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, you'll play a key role in supporting business-critical systems while contributing to the next phase of our cloud transformation journey. Are you the perfect match? You have extensive experience managing and supporting cloud environments, particularly Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You have practical knowledge of Microsoft Azure and enjoy working within a multi-cloud environment. You have strong experience administering cloud-native services including compute, networking, storage, monitoring, identity, and databases. You have hands-on expertise with Infrastructure as Code, ideally using Terraform. You are comfortable automating operational processes using PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages. You have experience supporting cloud migrations, infrastructure modernisation, and hybrid environments. You understand cloud security principles, monitoring, disaster recovery, backup strategies, and business continuity requirements. Experience with Kubernetes, containerised workloads, and platforms such as GKE and AKS would be highly advantageous. You are a natural problem solver with strong troubleshooting and third-line support experience. You enjoy collaborating with infrastructure, networking, security, application, and development teams to deliver robust cloud solutions. You are comfortable taking ownership, managing multiple priorities, and responding effectively during critical incidents. You combine strong technical expertise with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. What You'll Be Doing As a Senior Cloud Engineer Manage, monitor, support, and continuously improve production and non-production cloud environments. Take ownership of cloud operations across Google Cloud Platform while supporting Azure services and broader multi-cloud initiatives. Design, build, and implement secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud solutions aligned with business needs. Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code frameworks and cloud automation capabilities. Deliver operational excellence through monitoring, performance tuning, capacity planning, and proactive issue prevention. Provide third-line technical support, owning complex incidents and problems through to resolution. Maintain cloud backup, recovery, and business continuity capabilities, including participation in recovery testing exercises. Support cloud migration projects, platform modernisation initiatives, and cloud transformation programmes. Collaborate with development and application teams to improve deployment processes, CI/CD integrations, and operational readiness. Contribute to container and Kubernetes environments, helping optimise platform reliability and scalability. Ensure cloud environments remain secure, compliant, and aligned with best practices. Produce and maintain accurate technical documentation, standards, operational procedures, and architectural diagrams. Work closely with internal teams and external partners to deliver a resilient and innovative cloud platform. Benefits Of Working With Us Birthday bonus of €250 (gross, paid in the month of your birthday) Competitive salary Tasty meal during shift Industry pension plan 25 days holiday 1 extra day off for your wellbeing Exciting job opportunities within PPHE Hotel Group across Europe Discounted hotel rates (extends to the Radisson Hotel Group worldwide and family & friends) 50% F&B discount at our restaurants and bars (for your whole party) Travel compensation (max €250 net per month based on full-time employment) Recommend a Friend scheme (earn up to €750 for each friend who joins us) 8% holiday allowance (paid yearly in May) Flexible working policy (if applicable) Annual company parties and outings Exclusive discounts in the employee benefit store (www.alleo.nl) Discount on the collective health insurance from VGZ Departmental incentive schemes Great (online) Learning & Development opportunities to grow your career An advanced onboarding program Access to the hotel gym during low peak hours Technology is a key enabler of PPHE Hotel Group's growth and innovation. As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you'll have the opportunity to influence cloud strategy, drive automation, and build the foundations that power our hotels, brands, and guest experiences across Europe. PPHE Hotel Group
Core Responsibilities
Manage and improve production and non-production cloud environments, primarily on Google Cloud Platform, while supporting Azure and multi-cloud initiatives. Design secure and cost-effective solutions, automate infrastructure, provide third-line incident support, maintain recovery capabilities, and contribute to migrations, modernization, and Kubernetes operations.
Requirements
The role calls for extensive cloud operations experience, particularly with Google Cloud Platform, plus practical Azure knowledge and expertise in cloud-native services, Infrastructure as Code, and scripting. Candidates should also bring experience with migrations, security, monitoring, backup and recovery, troubleshooting, and cross-team collaboration; Kubernetes experience is advantageous.
Benefits
- Birthday Bonus
- Competitive Salary
- Meal During Shift
- Industry Pension Plan
- 25 Days of Holiday
- Wellbeing Day Off
- Hotel Discounts
- Food and Beverage Discount
- Travel Compensation
- Referral Bonus
- Holiday Allowance
- Flexible Working Policy
- Company Parties and Outings
- Employee Benefit Store Discounts
- Collective Health Insurance Discount
- Departmental Incentive Schemes
- Learning and Development Opportunities
- Onboarding Program
- Hotel Gym Access
About PPHE Hotel Group
Industry: Hospitality
Company size: 1,001-5,000 employees
PPHE Hotel Group is an international hospitality real estate company, with a portfolio of primarily prime freehold and long leasehold assets in Europe. Through its subsidiaries, jointly controlled entities and associates it owns, co-owns, develops, leases, operates and franchises hospitality real estate. Its primary focus is full-service upscale, upper upscale and lifestyle hotels in major gateway cities and regional centres, as well as hotel, resort and campsite properties in select resort destinations. PPHE Hotel Group benefits from having an exclusive and perpetual licence from the Radisson Hotel Group, one of the world's largest hotel groups, to develop and operate Park Plaza® branded hotels and resorts in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In addition, PPHE Hotel Group wholly owns, and operates under the art'otel® brand and its Croatian subsidiary owns, and operates under the Arena Hotels & Apartments® and Arena Campsites® brands. The Group also operates a Radisson Hotel Collection and two Radisson RED properties. PPHE Hotel Group is one of the largest owner/operators of hotels in central London. Its property portfolio comprises of 51 hotels and resorts in operation, offering a total of approximately 9,700 rooms and eight campsites. PPHE Hotel Group is a Guernsey registered company with shares listed on the London Stock Exchange and is FTSE 250 Company. PPHE Hotel Group also holds a controlling ownership interest in Arena Hospitality Group, whose shares are listed on the Prime market of the Zagreb Stock Exchange.