Principal Technology Architect Hybrid Cloud Platforms Germany, UK, NL
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Job Location:
Amsterdam - Netherlands
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
22 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Role - Enterprise Infrastructure Architect - Hybrid Cloud Platforms
Location Germany UK and Netherlands (Any location)
Unit CIS (Cloud and Infrastructure)
Job Description
Role Overview
The Enterprise Infrastructure Architect Hybrid Cloud Platforms is responsible for defining governing and evolving the endtoend infrastructure architecture supporting a modern hybrid cloud ecosystem. This includes onpremises data centers private cloud platforms public cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) edge environments and the automation security and operational frameworks that bind them together.
The architect acts as the enterprise authority on hybrid cloud strategy platform engineering infrastructure modernization Zero Trust security architecture and crosscloud governanceensuring that infrastructure platforms are scalable secure costefficient resilient and automationdriven.
Key Responsibilities
1. Hybrid Cloud Architecture & Strategy
Technical Expertise
Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. We enable clients in 50 countries to navigate their digital transformation. With over three decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises we expertly steer our clients through the many next of their digital journey. We do it by enabling the enterprise with an AI-powered core that helps prioritize the execution of change. We also empower the business with agile digital at scale to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and customer delight. Our always-on learning agenda drives their continuous improvement through building and transferring digital skills expertise and ideas from our innovation ecosystem.
Visit to see how Infosys can help your enterprise navigate your next.
All aspects of employment at Infosys are based on merit competence and performance. We are committed to embracing diversity and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Infosys is proud to be an equal opportunity employer
Location Germany UK and Netherlands (Any location)
Unit CIS (Cloud and Infrastructure)
Job Description
Role Overview
The Enterprise Infrastructure Architect Hybrid Cloud Platforms is responsible for defining governing and evolving the endtoend infrastructure architecture supporting a modern hybrid cloud ecosystem. This includes onpremises data centers private cloud platforms public cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) edge environments and the automation security and operational frameworks that bind them together.
The architect acts as the enterprise authority on hybrid cloud strategy platform engineering infrastructure modernization Zero Trust security architecture and crosscloud governanceensuring that infrastructure platforms are scalable secure costefficient resilient and automationdriven.
Key Responsibilities
1. Hybrid Cloud Architecture & Strategy
- Define the target state hybrid cloud architecture spanning data centers private cloud virtualized platforms Kubernetes and public cloud.
- Develop enterprise blueprints reference architectures design patterns and technical standards.
- Evaluate and select hybrid cloud technologies (VMware Anthos Azure Arc AWS Outposts OpenShift Nutanix etc.).
- Ensure designs support portability vendoragnostic adoption and multicloud governance.
- Partner with CTO CISO Cloud Platform and Network teams to align strategy to business goals.
- Define architecture for platform engineering capabilities: automation pipelines IaC GitOps policyascode.
- Deliver reusable IaC modules (Terraform Pulumi Ansible) for consistent deployment across clouds.
- Establish automated guardrails for configuration drift compliance and security baselines.
- Drive the adoption of selfservice infrastructure platforms and developer enablement portals.
- Lead modernization of legacy workloads (VM-based monoliths) to cloudnative platforms (containers serverless).
- Architect migration approaches (rehost replatform refactor) with dependency mapping risk mitigation and business alignment.
- Define platform capabilities for compute storage networking identity and data services across hybrid environments.
- Enable AIready infrastructure designs including GPU integration high-performance networking and scalable storage tiers.
- Embed Zero Trust principles across hybrid cloudidentity segmentation encryption and posture control.
- Align infrastructure with regulatory and compliance frameworks (ISO 27001 SOC2 CIS NIST).
- Define security integration patterns across cloud and onprem: IAM PAM KMS certificates secrets management.
- Partner with security architects to ensure platform designs meet enterprise security requirements.
- Architect highavailability and disaster recovery models across hybrid environments.
- Define availability zones failover strategies multiregion patterns and RTO/RPO targets.
- Implement fullstack observability: logging metrics tracing synthetic testing SLO/SLI models.
- Ensure platform performance aligns with business workloads including real-time and latency-sensitive applications.
- Establish enterprise policies for segmentation tagging lifecycle management patching and resource standards.
- Govern platform consistency through enterprise architecture boards and design reviews.
- Ensure hybrid cloud decisions are aligned to risk appetite operational readiness and cost controls.
- Partner with FinOps teams to incorporate cost efficiency into all infrastructure designs.
- Optimize cloud and onprem consumption modelscompute rightsizing storage tiers data egress GPU utilization.
- Provide oversight for cloud cost forecasting chargeback models and optimization recommendations.
- Act as the principal advisor to senior leadership on hybrid cloud strategy and infrastructure modernization.
- Communicate architecture decisions to business leaders using clear outcomedriven narratives.
- Mentor architects and engineers; drive adoption of architecture standards across global teams.
Technical Expertise
- Strong architecture background in:
- Hybrid cloud platforms (VMware Anthos Azure Arc OpenShift Outposts)
- Public cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)
- Kubernetes platforms (EKS GKE AKS OpenShift)
- Infrastructure automation (Terraform GitOps pipelines)
- Enterprise networking (hybrid connectivity transit networks security segmentation)
- Storage & data lifecycle management
- Deep knowledge of Zero Trust identity observability HA/DR patterns and SRE principles.
- Experience creating enterprisewide architecture roadmaps blueprints and reference implementations.
- Proven ability to design infrastructure for large complex regulated enterprises.
- Strong understanding of AI infrastructure enterprise data platforms and cloudnative modernization.
- Strong executive communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Ability to lead crossfunctional architecture decisions and influence senior leaders.
- Partner effectively with engineering security operations finance and product teams.
- Cloud architect certifications: AWS SAPro GCP PCA Azure Architect Expert.
- Enterprise architecture frameworks: TOGAF SAFe ITIL.
- Experience in large-scale hybrid cloud transformations within BFSI telco public sector or global manufacturing.
- 12 years in infrastructure/platform roles with 5 years in architecture leadership.
- Hybrid cloud Target State Architecture
- Enterprise architecture patterns blueprints and governance model
- Landing zones (cloud & onprem) with integrated guardrails
- IaC modules and automation frameworks
- Resilience security and cost optimization playbooks
- Platform modernization roadmap (1236 months)
Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. We enable clients in 50 countries to navigate their digital transformation. With over three decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises we expertly steer our clients through the many next of their digital journey. We do it by enabling the enterprise with an AI-powered core that helps prioritize the execution of change. We also empower the business with agile digital at scale to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and customer delight. Our always-on learning agenda drives their continuous improvement through building and transferring digital skills expertise and ideas from our innovation ecosystem.
Visit to see how Infosys can help your enterprise navigate your next.
All aspects of employment at Infosys are based on merit competence and performance. We are committed to embracing diversity and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Infosys is proud to be an equal opportunity employer
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Kubernetes
- S3
- Google Cloud Platform
- Cassandra
- System Architecture
- Redshift
- AWS
- Cloud Architecture
- NoSQL
- UML
- Kafka
- Distributed Systems
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