Private Cloud Architect Lead: Automation & Governance

Wlgroup; Den Haag; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Wlgroup is replacing a legacy classified network with a modern private cloud architecture across multiple sites. You will architect, govern and coordinate two tracks—architecture governance and automation—ensuring coherent design across the whole platform.

You will validate design documents, guide infrastructure teams and drive the move to infrastructure as code in a multi-location environment. The role demands deep knowledge of VMware Cloud Foundation, NSX‑T, Cisco ACI, and strong automation

Qualifications

• Enterprise private cloud architecture experience
• Deep hands-on with VMware Cloud Foundation, NSX‑T and Cisco ACI
• Infrastructure‑as‑code and automation experience with Ansible, Terraform and pipelines
• Experience writing architecture decision records (ADR) and interface control documents
• Ability to chair design sessions with multiple teams and manage cross‑team dependencies

Responsibilities

• Review and validate private cloud design documents against best practice and governing architecture
• 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 interface register
• Coordinate design and implementation between cyber security and infrastructure teams (CyberArk, certificate lifecycle, security monitoring)
• Chair joint design sessions and resolve cross‑team dependencies
• Validate and guide infrastructure automation using Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins and the platform's automation
• Define the automation and IaC target operating model and document the transition
• Help cloud operating teams build automation skills

Skills

Solution architecture

VMware Cloud Foundation

NSX-T

Cisco ACI

Automation tooling

Ansible

Terraform

Jenkins

Tools

Jenkins

CyberArk

Job description

Wlgroup is replacing a legacy classified network with a modern private cloud architecture across multiple sites. You will architect, govern and coordinate two tracks—architecture governance and automation—ensuring coherent design across the whole platform.

You will validate design documents, guide infrastructure teams and drive the move to infrastructure as code in a multi-location environment. The role demands deep knowledge of VMware Cloud Foundation, NSX‑T, Cisco ACI, and strong automation