Technical Projectlead Hosting Platform Migration

• Realizing the technical migration of a critical platform to a new hosting environment.
• Realizing the agreed technical project results.
• Determining how the agreed results are achieved.
• Realizing a coordinated technical design for the new hosting environment.
• Realizing a described and implemented collaboration model between the organization and the hosting service provider.
• Realizing an infrastructure on which the platform stack can function.
• Realizing a configured and working platform stack within the new hosting environment.
• Setting up connections with necessary infrastructure and security provisions.
• Realizing automated deployment and management processes where applicable within the architecture.
• Technically testing and validating an environment.
• Resolving or accepting findings from the test phase.
• Preparing and executing the migration of the relevant platform components.
• Providing technical documentation and transfer information for the management organization and hosting service provider.

What they ask

• Minimum 8 years demonstrable experience designing, realizing, and migrating complex IT infrastructures within enterprise environments.
• Minimum 5 years demonstrable experience designing and realizing hosting, cloud, and/or hybrid infrastructure platforms.
• Minimum 5 years demonstrable experience with Linux-based infrastructure and container platforms, including Kubernetes.
• Demonstrable experience with:
• virtualization platforms, including VMware or comparable solutions
• network, web, and infrastructure components
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management
• CI/CD and automated deployment processes.
• In the past 7 years, successfully executed at least two complex migration or transition projects where business-critical applications were migrated to a new hosting, cloud, or hybrid infrastructure.
• In the past 7 years, demonstrably held a technical coordinating or technically ultimately responsible role within at least one complex infrastructure, hosting, or migration project.

Preferences.

• Experience gained within government organizations, security regions, crisis organizations, or other regulated organizations.
• Experience applying Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevSecOps principles within complex infrastructure, platform, or hosting environments.
• More than 10 years demonstrable experience within IT infrastructure, hosting environments, and platform engineering.
• Demonstrable experience collaborating with external technology suppliers, hosting service providers, and/or managed service providers within complex infrastructure, transition, or migration projects.

Competencies.

• Excellent command of the Dutch language, both written and spoken.
• Strong analytical skills and able to understand complex technical issues, dependencies, and risks, and translate them into feasible solutions.
• Able to collaborate effectively with various internal and external stakeholders and bring together technical, organizational, and operational interests.
• Organizational sensitivity and able to operate within a complex administrative and technical environment with diverse interests and stakeholders.
• Results-oriented and drives the realization of agreed project results within established quality frameworks and planning.
• Able to independently assess technical choices, elaborate solution directions, identify risks, and provide substantiated advice.

• The contractor has the right to be replaced by an equally qualified professional after prior consultation on expertise, reliability, and any security requirements.