Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (Azure) - Landing Zone

Job ID: 5906

Group Technology sits at the centre of how Nordea runs and evolves as a bank. Our job is to give the organisation a clear, structured picture of its technology and the environment around it, so that the business strategy and the customer vision have a solid foundation to build on.

We're looking for a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer with deep Microsoft Azure experience to join us and take real ownership of our Azure Landing Zone. This is a hands-on role. You'll be building new capabilities into the platform as well as keeping what we already run healthy, secure, and reliable.

Nordea has a long history across the Nordics, but the way we work today looks a lot more like a tech company than a traditional bank. What we build touches millions of people every day, so it has to be dependable and it has to keep their money and data safe. That responsibility is a big part of what makes the work interesting.

About our team

We're the Cloud Platform Team, a group of cloud specialists who own and evolve Nordea's enterprise cloud platforms. We work alongside application teams through their whole cloud journey, from first onboarding into day-to-day operations and optimisation. Because we operate in banking, our Azure environment has to hold up to serious scrutiny on security, compliance, and operational stability, and we take that seriously without making it a bottleneck for the teams we support.

What you'll be doing

The heart of this role is our Azure Landing Zone. You'll be developing new features for it and maintaining the existing platform. In practice that means:

• Building and maintaining Landing Zone infrastructure as code with Terraform, handling configuration management with Ansible, and writing automation in Python and Bash for provisioning and ongoing operations.
• Building central, reusable solutions at the Landing Zone level so that application teams can adopt them with minimal effort, instead of every team solving the same problems on their own.
• Designing and running the CI/CD pipelines that ship Landing Zone changes, keeping those pipelines healthy, and setting up automated testing for platform components, while helping the wider team work in a genuine DevOps way rather than just talking about it.
• Staying active in day-to-day engineering: raising and reviewing pull requests as a normal part of how the team works, and contributing to architecture documentation so the reasoning behind the platform is written down and easy to follow.
• Keeping an eye out for gaps in our automation and closing them, so we're not repeating manual work that could be scripted.
• Designing the networking foundation across our subscription and management group structure: VNets, subnets, network security groups, route tables, hub-and-spoke topology, and the segmentation that keeps workloads properly separated.
• Building and operating hybrid connectivity between Azure and our on-premises data centres using ExpressRoute and VPN Gateway, and making sure it's reliable and performant.
• Applying zero trust principles to how workloads and users get access, so that connectivity is never implicitly trusted just because it's inside the network. This includes sensible use of Entra ID, Azure RBAC, Azure Policy, and network segmentation.
• Setting the governance guardrails and best practices (Azure Landing Zones under the Cloud Adoption Framework, management group hierarchy, and policy-as-code) that keep the platform compliant with banking security standards, without turning every request into a ticket queue.
• Building the platform's observability, including the dashboards we use to monitor and control it, so that both our team and the application teams can see what's running and react quickly when something looks off.
• Leading P1/P2 incident response when things go wrong: driving the response, running root cause analysis, coordinating across teams, and improving our procedures afterwards so we don't hit the same wall twice.

Who you are

This is the right role for you if you have:

• 5+ years of hands-on cloud engineering, with strong, current Azure experience at enterprise scale.
• Practical experience designing and running an Azure Landing Zone, ideally following the Cloud Adoption Framework / Enterprise-Scale approach.
• Strong command of Terraform for infrastructure as code, and solid Ansible skills for configuration and automation.
• Good programming ability in Python and Bash.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines.
• A genuine understanding of Azure networking: VNet and hub-and-spoke design, ExpressRoute, and how you'd connect Azure back to on-prem, along with how zero trust changes the way you design access.

Nice to have

None of these are dealbreakers, but they'd be a plus:

• A degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or something related.
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert or DevOps Engineer Expert certification.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes (AKS in particular).
• Familiarity with security frameworks and compliance standards.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tooling (Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• ITIL or a similar service management background.
• Comfort working in an agile setup.

What we offer

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in how we work and how we make decisions – and that we imagine you share with us.

People are driven by many different factors. For some, it’s to take their career to the next level. For others, it’s to break new ground within their area of expertise – in other words, with us, you will always move forward.

A culture that fosters performance and growth in one of the largest Nordic banks, offering various opportunities to evolve, develop and learn from brilliant colleagues with diverse backgrounds in a vibrant working environment.

Hybrid working model – we believe in the value of bringing people together and at the same time we embrace the freedom of flexibility.

Diversity and inclusion are a natural part of our daily work. We know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable one. We genuinely believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us stronger together. Every day we strive to find new ways to improve diversity and inclusion within our community e.g. we have signed the European Diversity Charters in the countries where we operate to show our commitment and engage with others to continue learning and improving.

If this sounds like you, get in touch!