Senior Specialist Solutions Engineer - Platform Security and Cloud Infrastructure

United States Digital Space LLC; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

the company based in Amsterdam is seeking a Senior Specialist Solutions Engineer to guide customers on big data workloads using the Lakehouse Platform, with emphasis on cloud infrastructure and security.

You will work with Field Engineering pre‑sales teams, travel up to 30% for customer visits and events, and contribute to architecture, security design, and automation. The initial 12‑month fixed‑term contract may convert to full‑time on successful probation.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing cloud infrastructure and security across AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Hands-on with cloud automation (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM).
• Experience with security lakehouse/data platform.
• Experience guiding pre-sales/post-sales engagements.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to guide strategic customers to successful implementations on big data projects, including architecture, security design, development and deployment best practices.
• Assist solution architects with advanced aspects of technical sales, including PoCs, workload sizing and custom architectures.
• Architect production‑level cloud native workloads and ensure security governance on Lakehouse Platform.
• Lead workshops and presentations to promote adoption within the customer community.

Skills

Cloud security

Cloud infrastructure design

Pre-sales experience

Terraform / IaC

Identity & Access Management

Security lakehouse

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

ARM

Job description

(FEQ427R351) Senior Specialist Solutions Engineer - Platform Security and Cloud Infrastructure

As a Senior Specialist Solutions Engineer, you will guide customers in building big data solutions on the company that span a large variety of use cases. This is a customer-facing role that works with and supports the Field Engineering pre‑sales teams and requires hands‑on production experience with cloud infrastructure and big data technologies. Specialist Solutions Engineers help customers through the design and successful implementation of essential workloads while aligning their technical roadmap to expand the use of the the company Data Intelligence Platform. As a deep go‑to‑expert reporting to the Specialist Field Engineering Manager, you will continue to strengthen your technical skills through mentorship, learning, and internal training programs to continuously consolidate the skills in your area of speciality.

The impact you will have:

• Technical thought leader
  • Provide technical leadership to guide strategic customers to successful implementations on big data projects, ranging from architectural and security design to development and deployment best practices, including automation
  • Assist Solution Architects with more advanced aspects of the technical sale, including custom proof of concept content, workload sizing, and custom architectures
• Cloud Infra & Security Expertise
  • Architect production‑level cloud native governed workloads
  • Provide technical expertise in cloud infrastructure and security relating to our the company Lakehouse Platform
• Community & Adoption
  • Enable adoption by leading workshops, hackathons, and conference presentations, while actively contributing to the broader the company community.

What we look for:

• Pre‑sales or post‑sales experience working with external customers (or internal clients/stakeholders) across industries
• 4+ years of experience designing Cloud infrastructure/Security and services, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, applying best practices in cloud security and networking, including:
  • Architecting, designing, deploying, and maintaining cloud networks and connectivity (VPC/VNet design, routing, segmentation, private connectivity).
  • Identity & Access Management (e.g. role‑based access control, using the principle of least privilege, integration with IdPs, etc)
  • Hands‑on experience with cloud infrastructure automation (e.g. Terraform or cloud‑specific resource management tools like ARM, CloudFormation, etc).
• Experience supporting customers (external or internal) in designing and implementing a security lakehouse/security data platform on the company to augment SIEM, enable security analytics and threat hunting, and build advanced detections.
• Hands‑on experience with prompt engineering, vibe coding and agentic tools
• Foundational knowledge of large‑scale processing/analytical engines for data pipeline architecture design.
• the company Certification(s) will be advantageous for the role.

Notes on the role:

• This will be an office‑based contract (Amsterdam), with a hybrid schedule, requiring up to 30% travel when needed for customer visits, events & trainings.
• An initial 12‑month fixed‑term contract is to be offered, with the expectation of extending/converting to FTE upon successful completion of the probation period.

About the company

the company is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the the company Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, the company offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog.

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At the company, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At the company, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at the company are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio‑economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

Compliance

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