Senior Infrastructure Architect: Cloud & Hybrid Solutions

Next Ventures; Rotterdam; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Next Ventures seeks an experienced Infrastructure Architect to lead the design and delivery of enterprise-scale infrastructure across cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments. You will define infrastructure strategy, roadmaps, and security while supporting major transformation programmes, working with security, network, cloud and platform teams to deliver resilient, cost-effective solutions.

The role requires strong stakeholder management, communication skills and a track record of

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an Infrastructure Architect, Technical Architect or Solution Architect.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise infrastructure technologies.
• Experience designing solutions across Windows Server, Linux, Active Directory / Entra ID, Virtualisation, Storage and Networking, Security.
• Strong understanding of public cloud platforms: Azure, AWS and Google Cloud (desirable).
• Experience with hybrid cloud and migration programmes.
• Knowledge of disaster recovery, business continuity and high-availability design.
• Experience producing architecture documentation and standards.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end infrastructure architectures across cloud, hybrid and on-premises environments.
• Develop infrastructure roadmaps aligned to business objectives and technology strategy.
• Lead architecture design workshops and provide technical leadership across projects.
• Produce high and low-level design documentation (HLDs/LLDs).
• Define standards, governance and best practices for infrastructure services.
• Ensure solutions meet security, compliance, performance and availability requirements.
• Support cloud transformation, data centre migration and modernisation initiatives.
• Collaborate with security, network, cloud and platform teams to deliver integrated solutions.
• Review existing infrastructure and identify opportunities for optimisation and automation.
• Provide technical assurance and architectural oversight throughout project lifecycles.

Skills

Infrastructure design

Stakeholder management

Communication

Tools

Azure

AWS

Google Cloud

VMware/Hyper-V

Entra ID

Networking

Security Architecture

Job description

Next Ventures seeks an experienced Infrastructure Architect to lead the design and delivery of enterprise-scale infrastructure across cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments. You will define infrastructure strategy, roadmaps, and security while supporting major transformation programmes, working with security, network, cloud and platform teams to deliver resilient, cost-effective solutions.

The role requires strong stakeholder management, communication skills and a track record of