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Senior Specialist Solutions Engineer - Platform Security and Cloud Infrastructure

🗓️ Posted 2026-08-18 Amsterdam, Netherlands Hybrid ICT

Company shared salary

NA

Market rate

8,000 EUR–12,000 EUR/mo (96,000 EUR–144,000 EUR/yr)

Based on similar roles (title + domain + location).

Responsibilities

  • ● Guide customers in building big data solutions on Databricks that span a large variety of use cases.
  • ● Work with and support the Field Engineering pre-sales teams.
  • ● Help customers through the design and successful implementation of essential workloads while aligning their technical roadmap to expand the use of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.
  • ● Strengthen technical skills through mentorship, learning, and internal training programs to continuously consolidate skills in the area of speciality.
  • ● 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.
  • ● Architect production-level cloud native governed workloads.
  • ● Provide technical expertise in cloud infrastructure and security relating to the Databricks Lakehouse Platform.
  • ● Enable adoption by leading workshops, hackathons, and conference presentations, while actively contributing to the broader Databricks community.

Requirements

  • ● 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.
  • ● Experience architecting, designing, deploying, and maintaining cloud networks and connectivity (VPC/VNet design, routing, segmentation, private connectivity).
  • ● Experience with 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 Databricks 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.
  • ● Databricks Certification(s) will be advantageous for the role.

Benefits

  • ● This will be an office-based contract (Amsterdam), with a hybrid schedule.