Senior Specialist Solutions Engineer - Platform Security and Cloud Infrastructure
Leads customer-facing architecture and technical pre-sales for Databricks security and cloud infrastructure solutions. The role requires at least four years of cloud infrastructure and security experience, hands-on automation expertise, and experience designing security data platforms.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Guide customers in building big data solutions on Databricks across a broad range of use cases.
- Support Field Engineering pre-sales teams in designing and implementing essential workloads.
- Provide technical leadership for strategic customer implementations, including architecture and security design, development and deployment best practices, and automation.
- Assist Solution Architects with advanced technical sales activities, including custom proof-of-concept content, workload sizing, and custom architectures.
- Architect production-level, cloud-native governed workloads.
- Provide expertise in cloud infrastructure and security for the Databricks Lakehouse Platform.
- Lead workshops, hackathons, and conference presentations to enable adoption.
- Contribute to the broader Databricks community.
Requirements
- Pre-sales or post-sales experience working with external customers or internal clients and stakeholders across industries.
- 4+ years of experience designing cloud infrastructure, security, and services using AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Experience applying cloud security and networking best practices, including:
- Cloud network and connectivity architecture, including VPC/VNet design, routing, segmentation, and private connectivity.
- Identity and Access Management, role-based access control, least-privilege principles, and IdP integration.
- Cloud infrastructure automation using Terraform or cloud-specific resource management tools such as ARM and CloudFormation.
- Experience supporting customers or internal teams in designing and implementing security lakehouses or security data platforms on Databricks for SIEM augmentation, security analytics, threat hunting, and advanced detections.
- Hands-on experience with prompt engineering, vibe coding, and agentic tools.
- Foundational knowledge of large-scale processing and analytical engines for data pipeline architecture design.
Nice to Have
- Databricks certifications.
Compensation and Benefits
- Initial 12-month fixed-term contract, with the expectation of extension or conversion to a full-time position after successful completion of the probation period.
- Comprehensive benefits and perks are offered, with specific details varying by region.
- Hybrid office-based schedule in Amsterdam.
- Up to 30% travel for customer visits, events, and training.
Skills
Databricks, AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, Cloud Security, Cloud Networking, Vpc, Vnet, Identity And Access Management, Terraform, CloudFormation, Arm, SIEM, Threat Hunting, Prompt Engineering
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