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Cloud Architect

Posted 25 Mar 2024
Work experience
4 to 7 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required languages
English (Fluent)
Dutch (Fluent)

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Do you want to join one of the coolest IoT companies in Amsterdam? Do you want to work with a close group of passionate experts in an international, rapidly growing and dynamic organization? Then join Quby, where people & technology come together. A company with room for new ideas, initiatives and personal development.

Quby is searching for an inspiring Cloud Architect to strengthen our IoT Engineering and Development teams.

Your challenge

The landscape at Quby is cloud-native, running on AWS and consists of mobile applications, a microservices architecture, machine learning, big data and connected IoT devices. We are continuously improving our ways of working. Agile beyond the basics of Scrum, continuous integration and delivery help us to shorten our feedback cycles.

Together with your fellow architects and the teams you ensure that the Quby landscape forms a high-performance, and consistent platform, and you make sure that the architecture is aligned with delivering value to our customers as frequently as possible and with the long term product strategy of our company. Our architectural approach supports experimental and incremental development to validate fast, and at the same time ensures a secure, scalable and cost-effective setup in the cloud.

Your daily job includes:

  • Define and maintain the overall architecture of the Quby landscape.
  • Participate in the creative process in our value streams.
  • Define and continuously validate the technology roadmap of our values streams.
  • Contribute to business strategy and roadmap from and technological and architectural point of view.
  • Modeling existing solutions to be able to innovate and validate technology choices.
  • Explore new technologies and drive incremental innovation.
  • Identify bottlenecks and opportunities in our landscape, and propose improvements to increase quality and reduce costs, for instance on the used AWS technology.
  • Help establish a safe environment where people dare to make mistakes and celebrate success.
  • Be a technology ambassador inside as well as outside of Quby.

Who you are

A fast learner who thrives in challenging environments and has a creative yet pragmatic feel for problem solving. You are a team player with excellent communications skills, who is curious by nature and takes ownership at work.

And preferably:

  • Have a Bachelor or Master Degree in computer science or similar.
  • Have 4+ years of experience in comparable roles, preferably with multi-tenant, cloud-native software platforms, supporting high volume of IoT devices.
  • Adhere to agile ways of working, such as Scrum, or Kanban.
  • Have strong coordination and people skills, bringing teams together, and align of activities.
  • Lead by example.
  • Are able to explain and present complex solution to non-tech co-workers. Your communication skills are impeccable.
  • Operate and deliver in a dynamic environment.
  • Act as an experienced technology coach.
  • Excel in continuous integration and continuous delivery.
  • Have strong knowledge about cloud technology and infrastructure, specifically AWS, Mesos, Marathon, Docker, AWS IoT, microservices.
  • Have knowledge on big-data and real time data streaming technology and frameworks.
  • Know (web) application security in general and authentication and authorisation mechanisms, such as OAuth and federation in particular.
  • Have a strong background in software engineering. Our current languages of choice are C, C++, Python, Javascript, Java.
  • Aware of the implications of privacy policies, such as GDPR and AVG, on the solutions you design and can implement privacy and security by design.
  • Train continuously, as you know knowledge in technology ages fast.
  • It's a plus if you have experience in front-end technologies, such as React.
  • It’s a plus if you are knowledgeable in wireless technologies as WiFi, Bluetooth, ZigBee or Z-Wave,
  • It’s also a plus if you display a broad knowledge and understanding of embedded hardware and software design of consumer electronics.

We need you

As Quby employs a lot of smart people already, we are hoping that you will step up to the plate and become our next cloud architect. We prefer hiring our architect from our own ranks. Quby encourages you to apply to this job, if you feel you are the right person to help lead the way in renewing our landscape, and help the value stream in standardizing, simplifying and automating our architecture, while moving away from legacy code, and promoting security-by-design, continuous delivery and microservices.

Our process is straightforward:

Please apply by sending us your written motivation why Quby needs you to be our next cloud architect. Written communication is also a featured skill of any architect.

  • Your application is evaluated.
  • A first interview will take place with our current architects, and will focus on your technology vision and ideas.
  • During a second interview we will ask you give a presentation about your ideas on a suitable topic to a small group of tech and non-tech people. Good presentation and motivational skills are mandatory for any architect. The topic will be chosen at a later time, but will be an topic currently on our wish list.
  • In a third interview the operational topics of the role will be discussed.
  • We hope you will apply to this dynamic and crucial role in the Quby organization.

We believe that our services can help every home to change towards a more sustainable and efficient home, without compromising on the important things in life. We partner up with our clients, like energy providers and insurance companies, to create valuable consumer services using data-driven technology.

IT
Amsterdam
100 employees