# Lead Cloud Ops Platform Engineer \(m/f/d\) - Company: [Soficonv]() - Location: Zwijnaarde, East Flanders, Belgium - Team: Platform Delivery - PLD - Posted: August 17, 2026 ## Job description **At SOFICO**, we're building the **future of mobility** through Miles, our market-leading platform for leasing, fleet, and mobility operations worldwide. As an international team, we combine innovation, collaboration, and ownership to deliver real impact for our customers, in a culture of continuous learning, mutual support, and shared success. SOFICO is **expanding its Data & AI organisation** to **build the SOFICO AI Cloud and the Miles Enterprise Agentic Platform**: an AI experience layer backed by a deterministic capability layer that keeps every business action controlled, predictable, and testable. **From our Ghent office**, you'll be the **founding Cloud Ops engineer** embedded directly in the Data & AI product team, **owning the design, build, and operation of the AI Cloud platform:** standardized, single-tenant environments that SOFICO runs in Azure, powering the Agentic Platform. # **What You'll do** This is a hands-on role: **you design it and you build it**. Automated deployment is key from day one. * **Design, build, and operate the AI Cloud platform:** standardized, single-tenant customer environments run by SOFICO **in Azure.** * **Build and maintain the automated "instance factory"** for rapid, secure provisioning, upgrades, and lifecycle management of customer instances. * **Own Infrastructure-as-Code**, CI/CD, and GitOps practices end to end, from design through daily operation. * Drive **platform standardization**: handle customer-specific requirements through configuration, not custom infrastructure. * **Design secure, reliable connectivity between AI Cloud and the rest of Miles Enterprise**, parts of which run on-premise or at customer sites. * Own platform **reliability, security, and observability**: monitoring, alerting, incident response, and continuous improvement. * Apply the technical standards and foundations for Cloud Ops for Miles Enterprise to the Data & AI team's artifacts. # **What You Bring** * **Senior-level, hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Ops, DevOps, or SRE** — comfortable owning a platform end to end, with help from our Cloud Ops specialists. * Proven track record **operating and scaling production SaaS or cloud-native platforms**. * Strong background **automating infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and operations at scale.** * Confident **setting technical direction and standards** solo today, with the appetite to mentor and grow a team once one exists. **Knowledge & Skills** * Infrastructure-as-Code: Terraform, Ansible, or similar. * Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, and cloud-native platforms. * CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-based deployment automation. * Solid Azure experience; **exposure to Azure AI services is a strong plus**. * Observability: monitoring, logging, alerting, incident response. * Operating multi-tenant / multi-customer platforms: tenant isolation, secrets management, fleet-wide upgrades. * Secure connectivity between cloud and on-premise or customer-hosted environments — needed from day one to integrate with the rest of Miles Enterprise. * Strong communication and stakeholder management; you'll work directly with product, AI engineering, and, eventually, the wider Miles Ops organisation. **Plus:** cloud cost optimization experience. # **What's in it for you…** * Competitive salary package. * Meal allowance provided per working day. * Fully covered private health insurance, so you can focus on what matters most. * Hybrid working and flexible hours, giving you the freedom to shape your workday. * A modern co-working space offering a comfortable working environment. * A structured onboarding program from day one, with a dedicated coach to help you get up to speed and grow in your role. * Regular opportunities to connect beyond day-to-day work — casual drinks, team activities, and company-wide events. **Ready to build the secure and deterministic capabilities behind the next generation of mobility software? Join SOFICO and let's shape what's next together!** ## Apply [Apply on Soficonv]() Canonical job page: