Private Cloud Architect: Design Governance & IaC Lead

Wlgroup; Den Haag; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Wlgroup in The Hague invites an architect to lead system integration for a private cloud replacement project. You will ensure coherence across architecture and governance, and coordinate automation initiatives.

Two tracks—architecture/governance and automation—drive standardization, interfaces, and change control. On-site work in The Hague with monthly sprints and cross‑team design sessions.

Qualifications

• Experience as a solution architect for large enterprise private clouds, ideally air-gapped or highly constrained.
• Deep knowledge of VMware Cloud Foundation, NSX-T, and Cisco ACI with ability to review designs.
• Hands-on IaC and automation experience with Ansible, Terraform, and pipelines; judgment on what to automate.
• Experience writing architecture decision records and interface control documents that survive review.
• Ability to chair design sessions with multiple teams and resolve cross-team dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Review and validate private cloud design documents, identifying gaps and risks against best practices.
• Provide design guidance to infrastructure and platform teams during implementation.
• Define and maintain architecture decision records with traceability from requirements to design.
• Define interface control documents between cloud and all producer/consumer services and maintain change-controlled interface register.
• Coordinate between cyber security and infrastructure teams for privileged access management, certificate lifecycle, and security monitoring integration.
• Chair joint design sessions and resolve cross-team dependencies to avoid stalls.
• Validate and guide infrastructure automation using Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, and internal automation.
• Define the target operating model for automation and IaC and document the transition to it.
• Help cloud operating teams build automation skills.

Skills

Solution architecture

Private cloud

VMware Cloud Foundation

NSX-T

Cisco ACI

Ansible

Terraform

Jenkins

Infrastructure as code

CyberArk

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Jenkins

Job description

Wlgroup in The Hague invites an architect to lead system integration for a private cloud replacement project. You will ensure coherence across architecture and governance, and coordinate automation initiatives.

Two tracks—architecture/governance and automation—drive standardization, interfaces, and change control. On-site work in The Hague with monthly sprints and cross‑team design sessions.