Senior Infrastructure Architect

Levy NL; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Bank in Amsterdam is launching an EU cyber recovery data centre and seeks an Infrastructure Architect to shape it from day one. You will join the Global IT Resilience & Recovery team, guiding concept design for an air-gapped, ransomware-resilient recovery environment.

This six-month initiation phase aims to set architecture principles and trade-offs, with potential extension, based at the Amsterdam office at least 3 days a week.

Qualifications

• 7-10 years in senior technical architecture roles.
• Datacenter architecture experience including disaster recovery, replication and failover.
• Hands-on design of cyber recovery solutions: recovery vaults, immutable backup, air-gapped and clean room recovery.
• Experience in highly regulated environments.
• CDCDP is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead High-Level Concept Design for the EU Cyber Recovery Datacenter.
• Translate business needs into a functional and non-functional requirements matrix.
• Evaluate architecture options, document trade-offs and provide input for the business case.
• Align architecture, engineering, security, risk and operations stakeholders on the solution direction.

Skills

Architectural design

Disaster recovery

Air-gapped / cyber recovery

Regulated environments

Stakeholder alignment

Job description

Infrastructure Architect | Design a New Cyber Recovery Data Centre from Concept | Global Bank

A global bank is building a new EU data centre dedicated to cyber recovery, and is looking for an Infrastructure Architect to shape it from day one. You will join the Global IT Resilience & Recovery team, which owns IT continuity, disaster recovery and backup & restore across APAC, EMEA, the US and LATAM, and lead the concept design for an air-gapped, ransomware-resilient recovery environment.

About the role

This is the initiation phase, so you will set the foundations: architecture principles, solution options, trade-offs and the concept design the programme will build on. It is a 6-month assignment with a strong view to extend by another 6+ months, based at the Amsterdam office at least 3 days a week.

You will:

• Lead the High-Level Concept Design for the EU Cyber Recovery Datacenter
• Translate business needs into a functional and non-functional requirements matrix
• Evaluate architecture options, document trade-offs and provide input for the business case
• Align architecture, engineering, security, risk and operations stakeholders on the solution direction

About you

• 7-10 years in technical architecture roles on large-scale enterprise infrastructure
• Proven datacenter architecture experience, including disaster recovery, replication and failover design, ideally with datacenter transformation or build projects
• Hands-on design of cyber recovery solutions: recovery vaults, immutable backup, air-gapped and clean room recovery
• Experience in highly regulated environments
• CDCDP is highly desirable