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• Rotterdam

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• From 32 hours per week

Infra & Cloud Solution Architect

• Rotterdam

• From 32 hours per week

• IT

Are you the Cloud & Infra Solution Architect that guides Van Oord in our journey to become a process-based, data-driven, and digitally enabled company? Do you get energised by enabling our company domains in planning and realizing our future process, data, and technology landscapes? Check this out!

THE POSITION

Van Oord is an ambitious entrepreneurial organization. 'We create', 'We care', 'We work together' and 'We succeed' are our company values. As the Infra/Cloud Solution Designer you will play an important role in our purpose: "To create a better world for future generations by delivering Marine Ingenuity".

Located in Rotterdam, our information technology department supports our global organisation in successfully executing our projects by delivering shared & enabling platform capabilities, landscape planning, and ensuring continuity & cybersecurity of our services. We apply a pragmatic approach, keeping close relationships with business stakeholders to make sure we deliver what our customers need in a language that is familiar and understood.

Our business landscape is undergoing significant transformation in key areas of finance, supply chain, procurement, HR, fleet- and asset management. Major goals to achieve are increased operational excellence, becoming fully data driven, and growing our digital capabilities around our processes and company ecosystem.

We are transforming our IT landscape to become mostly platform- and cloud-based, in support of data and/or digital initiatives - with new platforms being realized for data, integration and low-code. We are transforming our way of working to become more Agile and adopt a product centric mindset. We are proud of our knowledgeable and experienced IT staff, applying a no-nonsense approach when needed. There is never a boring moment - with lots of challenges & innovations, in a world where 'constant change' is the only constant.

YOUR IMPACT

As the Infrastructure/Cloud Solution Designer, you will design and implement technology solutions tailored to meet specific Van Oord business needs. You will translate business and business system requirements into infrastructure requirements & solutions that are fit for purpose, on-premise and/or cloud-based. We need you to design the required infrastructure with a focus on technical feasibility, technology standardization, stability and scale - while ensuring information security and providing adequate performance.

You will have a strong role in the design of the required solutions based on our standards working together with domain Architects, IT disciplines, IT product owners, business- and information analysts.

You have a strong technical background in Infrastructure on-premise and Cloud, covering networking, virtual servers, security, and modernising applications with VMware, Azure, and container services. Your experience with on-premises and cloud infrastructure drives Van Oord IT landscape to the next level. You translate business system requirements into infrastructural requirements and design. You guide our operational IT disciplines towards the right technical direction and support the maintenance and overview of our infrastructure landscape and its roadmap.

Your responsibilities:

• Offering advice & insights on technical infrastructure solutions
• Design new or optimised infrastructure solutions, in close collaboration with the domain Architect Infra/Cloud.
• Align with business, IT, architects and project stakeholders on requirements (functional to technical translation) to ensure scalability, flexibility, performance and security.
• Be involved in the delivery of business projects/programs.
• Align with operational IT disciplines to implement, renew, improve current solutions.
• Automation minded, identify opportunities, design to best practices, enforce standardisation and efficiency based on compliancy and security requirements.
• Contributes in producing and maintaining HLD documentation and related architectural deliverables for business and IT projects.
• Contributes to the creation of HLD or similar documents in business and IT projects
• Provide designs (HLD, LLD) and guidance towards our engineering teams.
• Provide expert guidance to IT operations teams in resolving complex domain-related issues.
• Work with Product Owner(s) on defining lifecycle and roadmap needs.

YOUR WORK ENVIRONMENT

You will be working from our head office in Rotterdam - with a splendid view on the beautiful Maas. You can start or end your working day at our own gym in the office. Of course there is room to work from home, while maintaining a healthy mix in working together as a team and with our stakeholders.

This position is available within the multi-disciplinary Enterprise Architecture team: Operating in a highly international enterprise environment, with members and stakeholders across the globe.

The Architecture team consists of 8 people and is growing. We are spread across Enterprise Architecture and domain Architecture. You will get a buddy to help you find your way into the company. You can learn a lot from your colleagues, and we value an open learning environment.

ABOUT YOU

To be successful within Van Oord in guiding our organisation forward, we believe you will need the knowledge and experience as indicated below. If you do not exactly meet these criteria but still think you are a great match: Let us know, we are happy to let us become convinced of your qualities.

• A master's degree or work level experience.
• At least 5 years of infrastructure and cloud solution designer experience, and at least 2 years of tangible solution architecture experience in an international environment
• Strong knowledge of networking, server virtualization, security technology, Microsoft Azure and container services
• Decent presentation and influencing/negotiation skills
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, but driving for a practical outcome (!))
• A natural willingness / eagerness to drive change
• Comfortable with creating visualizations, designs, and architecture materials
• Experienced in working in multi-disciplinary teams in a constantly changing environment
• Fluent in English - and we prefer native Dutch speakers.

WE OFFER YOU

Working in an international, high demanding and dynamic organisation, with the possibility to truly have impact on our business, people and environment. We offer a complete package with excellent secondary employment benefits. The package includes among other things:

• A salary that matches your responsibilities and experience
• 32 leave days of which a max. of 7 days can be appointed as collective leave days
• A pension scheme
• A variable bonus
• Extensive learning and (personal) development possibilities
• An adequate travel allowance (0.31 cents/km)
• Collective health insurance (optional);
• Flexible working hours and flexible (remote) work location

INTERESTED?

Apply via the application form below.

Located in Rotterdam, our information technology department supports our global organisation in successfully executing our projects by delivering shared & enabling platform capabilities, landscape planning, and ensuring continuity & cybersecurity of our services. We apply a pragmatic approach, keeping close relationships with business stakeholders to make sure we deliver what our customers need in a language that is familiar and understood.

We are transforming our IT landscape to become mostly platform- and cloud-based, in support of data and/or digital initiatives - with new platforms being realized for data, integration and low-code.

We need you to design the required infrastructure with a focus on technical feasibility, technology standardization, stability and scale - while ensuring information security and providing adequate performance.

You will have a strong role in the design of the required solutions based on our standards working together with domain Architects, IT disciplines, IT product owners, business- and information analysts.

You have a strong technical background in Infrastructure on-premise and Cloud, covering networking, virtual servers, security, and modernising applications with VMware, Azure, and container services. You guide our operational IT disciplines towards the right technical direction and support the maintenance and overview of our infrastructure landscape and its roadmap.

• Align with business, IT, architects and project stakeholders on requirements (functional to technical translation) to ensure scalability, flexibility, performance and security.
• Automation minded, identify opportunities, design to best practices, enforce standardisation and efficiency based on compliancy and security requirements.

Of course there is room to work from home, while maintaining a healthy mix in working together as a team and with our stakeholders.

This position is available within the multi-disciplinary Enterprise Architecture team: Operating in a highly international enterprise environment, with members and stakeholders across the globe.

If you do not exactly meet these criteria but still think you are a great match: Let us know, we are happy to let us become convinced of your qualities.