Job Description

Location: Hengelo, Netherlands

Cloud Infrastructure Architect, 32 - 40 hours, Hengelo
In fast changing markets, organizations rely on robust and secure digital capabilities. As a Cloud Infrastructure Architect, you work in an environment where professionals collaborate to design innovative solutions that enable future ready IT landscapes.

In this position, you are part of a multidisciplinary IS/IT organization operating in an Agile and DevOps driven structure. Teams work closely with the business to deliver high quality IT services, with a strong focus on security, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Autonomous teams support each other, share knowledge, and celebrate achievements while driving modernization and operational excellence.

Within the specialized Cloud squad, you contribute to the foundation of the organization’s digital capabilities, focusing on a high performance Private Cloud environment with emphasis on availability, sovereignty, and automation. You collaborate with Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, and security experts to ensure architectural consistency and alignment.

About the job
Your day begins by aligning with your squad, where your role goes beyond providing a status update. You offer architectural direction, help unblock complex challenges, and ensure technical coherence across the cloud landscape. You also engage with stakeholders to translate business requirements into solid infrastructure strategies and designs.

As a Cloud Infrastructure Architect, you help the team design and evolve the on premises private cloud environment. This includes virtualization platforms, container orchestration technologies, software defined networking, automation tooling, and modern storage solutions. You architect, challenge, and guide the modernization, standardization, and automation of the cloud landscape, ensuring readiness for hybrid integration where applicable.

If you enjoy working on cutting edge infrastructure while maintaining high security and compliance standards, and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to improve sovereign cloud capabilities, this role is an excellent fit.

Your contribution to the squad

• Understand end to end business requirements for hosting, compute, and networking, translating these into robust Private Cloud solutions.
• Validate technical designs with security, enterprise architecture, and other architectural stakeholders.
• Describe and define how cloud solutions and automated workflows should function and interact, using appropriate modelling tools.
• Take the lead in maintaining, improving, and developing the software defined data center (SDDC).
• Implement, refine, and explore architectural enablers with a focus on automation and self service.
• Collaborate with other architects to exchange best practices and ensure architectural consistency.
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, AI) and assess their relevance for the private cloud landscape.
• Translate high level architecture into actionable low level designs for engineering teams.
• Provide recommendations to mitigate potential hardware or software risks within the private cloud stack.
• Ensure that delivered cloud services and infrastructure components are compliant, secure, and fit for use, taking ownership of the architectural quality and the overall outcome.
  

About you

• You hold a technical bachelor’s or master’s degree.
• You have >5 years of experience as a Cloud or Infrastructure Architect in large scale enterprise environments.
• You have a positive mindset: responsible, decisive, analytical, and result oriented.
• You are assertive and thorough, especially regarding security and compliance.
• You understand architectural frameworks (e.g., TOGAF) and cloud frameworks.
• You are an excellent planner and thrive in dynamic, high tech environments.
• You have strong social and communication skills.
• You are fluent in English and Dutch.
  

What’s in it for you

• A challenging role in a high tech, innovative environment with room for initiative and new ideas.
• Opportunities for personal and professional growth, including technical and international development.
• Collaboration with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and nationalities.
• A modern, flexible workspace with a healthy work life balance.
• Hybrid working possibilities, typically aiming for a 60/40 home office balance where the role allows.
• Competitive salary, travel allowance, and customizable employment conditions (e.g., PTO exchange, mobility options, fitness, relocation support).
• 40 days of paid time off per year.

Diversity Statement
We actively support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions. That means that equal opportunities, inclusion and an informal culture are integral to our success. It also means that your well-being and happiness matter to us! That’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, remote working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times.

Security Requirements
In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in The Netherlands and employment and/or education history. This vacancy requires a security clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for security clearance please refer to the General Intelligence and Security Service.

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