Lead Data Centre & Cyber Resilience Architect

Gazelle Global; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Gazelle Global in Amsterdam is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Architect to drive a major European Data Centre and Cyber Recovery programme. You will shape a brand-new data centre, delivering cyber-resilient, compliant infrastructure across regions.

The role requires extensive experience in large-scale infrastructure architecture within regulated banking environments, with leadership across enterprise teams and a strong focus on DR and resilience.

Qualifications

• 7-10+ years in Infrastructure/Technical Architecture
• Banking or regulated financial services experience
• Experience architecting large-scale datacentre environments
• Strong knowledge of datacentre tech: storage, compute, networking, virtualization
• Experience in cyber resilience, disaster recovery and business continuity
• Ability to translate business needs into architectural designs and technical solutions

Responsibilities

• Lead the Data Centre architecture and High-Level Concept Design for a new European Cyber Recovery Data Centre
• Design secure, scalable, and highly resilient enterprise infrastructure for mission-critical banking services
• Develop architecture covering datacentre infrastructure, compute, storage, networking, virtualization, backup and recovery
• Incorporate immutable storage, air-gapped vaults and clean-room recovery environments
• Contribute to business cases, feasibility, and long-term datacentre strategy
• Engage with senior stakeholders and lead architectural workshops and design reviews
• Provide technical direction to multidisciplinary teams across infra, cloud, networking and security
• Ensure alignment with regulatory requirements and enterprise standards

Skills

Infrastructure architecture

Stakeholder engagement

Cyber resilience

Banking domain knowledge

Data centre design

Tools

TOGAF

CDCDP

AWS/Azure

VMware VCP/VCF

CISSP

CCIE

Job description

Gazelle Global in Amsterdam is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Architect to drive a major European Data Centre and Cyber Recovery programme. You will shape a brand-new data centre, delivering cyber-resilient, compliant infrastructure across regions.

The role requires extensive experience in large-scale infrastructure architecture within regulated banking environments, with leadership across enterprise teams and a strong focus on DR and resilience.