Senior Cloud Solution Architect (AWS)

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands; hybrid, with 1 or 2 days working in the office per week

Salary: up to €150,000 per year

Company

An international engineering and IT consultancy founded by engineers, employing tens of thousands of people worldwide and developing a specialized AWS business group in Amsterdam.

What you will do

• Lead discovery and migration workshops with clients.
• Develop migration wave plans from high-level strategy to low-level execution.
• Guide clients and delivery teams through final cutover.
• Lead and advise for approximately 80% of the role, with approximately 20% hands-on technical work.
• Collaborate with platform, database, and security architects on projects lasting at least twelve months for major international brands in retail, consumer goods, and financial services.

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience leading several cloud migrations, preferably from on-premises environments to AWS, including discovery, wave planning, and cutover.
• Solid understanding of landing zones, platform engineering, and hybrid connectivity between on-premises environments and cloud platforms.
• Strong technical foundation in Terraform or CloudFormation and Python.
• Knowledge of storage, rightsizing, and observability.
• Consulting skills, including building client trust and leading a team.
• Strong command of Dutch and English.

Culture & Benefits

• Outcome-based consultancy projects with no secondment; the consultancy owns the project result and employees remain part of their own team.
• Permanent contract with 26 holiday days and pension benefits.
• Employee share purchase plan, commuting allowance, and bike lease.
• In-house training, certifications, and access to a global knowledge community.
• Approximately twelve-month or longer projects followed by new client engagements.

Hiring process

• Apply via Easy Apply on LinkedIn or send a CV to n.verhage@doghouse.nl.