Cloud Architect in Amsterdam

Introductie

At the base of every company lies the core infrastructure. The infrastructure team enables our agile organization to deliver the customer value quickly, continuously and autonomously. We do this with cutting edge core enterprise infrastructure resources, services and applications. Are you experienced in ecommerce, cloud infrastrucuture and are you ready to work at one of the fastest growing ecommerce companies in the Netherlands. We’d love to hear from you!

Organisatie

Join one of the fastest growing eCommerce companies in Amsterdam and work together with an international team that is passionate about inspiring people to relive and share life’s moments through personalised photo products.

We are albelli, specialists in photo products and experts in building intuitive software to create them since 2003. We started selling photo books in the Netherlands where we are the market leader and soon expanded into other markets and broadened our portfolio to include other products such as wall art, cards and calendars.

With customer centricity at our core, we are driven by quality, creativity, innovation, development, and providing the best customer experience anytime, anywhere. Our head office is based in the centre of Amsterdam. Our production facility in The Hague is where we produce all photo products for the European market: The Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, UK, Germany & France.

Functie

As part of the infrastructure squad, you will focus on engineering innovative, strategic and long term solutions that enable Information Technology’s strategy for the movement of all IT assets to a Cloud-based platform. You will have the necessary technical experience, knowledge, and skills to establish yourself as a domain expert for the Cloud within the organization. Additionally, you will provide direction, guidance and mentorship to staff engaged in the development and application of technology, architectures, frameworks, methodologies, patterns, and best practices.

During the following six month period, your focus within the squad would be to work on:

• Architectural improvements and development on our core projects for AWS infrastructure, using infrastructure as code to help squads to accelerate their journey to the cloud.
• Continuously improve our Integration & Deployment pipelines.
• Assist squads with infrastructure as code, configuration management and CI/CD.
• Coach the members of the squad, as well as other squads and take part in AWS, Hashicorp toolset and CI/CD knowledge sharing.
• Take part in the organization wide agile transformation.

Responsibilities

Your job will be to design, implement and improve our cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. As a senior member of the infrastructure squad, you will research what the best approach is, which architecture to apply, which frameworks to use and to guide other squad members in the right direction.

• Evaluate new technologies and evolving business requirements.
• High-level specialized technical support and consultation to business and IT.
• Lead the development of the technical solutions or offering, by translating the business needs into technical requirements.
• Identify gaps, strategic impacts, financial impacts and the risk profile in the technical solutions.

Functie eisen

The ideal candidate is a team player and an experienced and versatile architect/engineer with mature knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, Configuration management, Continuous Delivery and has excellent knowledge about the technical design of scalable software components and distributed systems.

• Agile mindset.
• 5 + years ecommerce experience of which at least 1 year experience with infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines
• Quick learner, team player and a patient teacher.
• Innovation skills, vision and a solid understanding how to embrace cloud computing resources to build and improve our enterprise infrastructure in AWS.
• Proactive, with strong planning and organizational skills.
• Strong communicator a good influencer and motivator.
• Fluent in English
  
• Technical proficiency at delivering (3rd party) cloud-ready applications, such as those built on open standards, network development, monitoring skills and security skills:
  – Up to date with best AWS practices and services offered is a must
  – Experience with creating and improving CI/CD pipelines.
  – Preferred experience with the HashiCorp toolset.
  – Desired experience with Chef, Ruby and git.
  – Desired Coding experience
  
  

Aanbod

At Albelli we work hard, have fun and never forget to celebrate our successes. We value innovation, creating high-quality products and delivering the best customer experience and service. We are a fast-growing company that combines an eCommerce mind-set with a tangible and emotional product. Besides our famous annual New Year’s party and summer party, we end the week with Friday afternoon drinks.

We offer:

• An international team that you definitely like working with
• Agile way of working to empower team members and create an innovative and efficient organization.
• A rewarding job in a fast growing and dynamic environment.
• Competitive compensation and an environment to develop yourself.
• Informal and hands-on work culture.
• Room for you to do things your way, growth to improve and excel.
• 2 minute walk from Amsterdam Central Station with the best view on the city.