About the Position

Principal Cloud Architect & AI Automation Engineer

Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Employment Type: FULL_TIME
Work Location Type: Hybrid

Why Now?

We believe this is just the beginning of something big and it’s the perfect time to join the community where the brightest cloud minds in the Benelux come together to innovate, grow, and lead.

Job Description

Does this sound like you?

Are you an ambitious cloud generalist excited by the frontier of AI automation? Do you prefer operating at the architectural level guiding systems, orchestrating infrastructure, and supervising AI-driven code generation across multi-cloud environments rather than writing line-by-line application code? At Xebia, we are scaling globally, investing heavily in cloud-native innovation, and building teams that redefine how organisations scale technology.

About the Role

This is not a traditional software development position. We are looking for a deep generalist who leverages fundamental cloud expertise to oversee, scale, monitor, and direct AI-driven workloads. Under your supervised direction, you will guide AI systems to automate code, orchestrate pipelines, and scale multi-cloud environments.

Responsibilities

Architect Multi-Cloud Systems: Design, navigate, and maintain high-scale infrastructure across AWS and GCP.
Supervise AI Automation: Orchestrate AI capabilities to automate code generation, infrastructure provisioning, and workloads.
Maintain High Observability: Monitor and audit AI-driven deployments to ensure reliability, security, and performance at scale.
Lead & Mentor: Share your deep generalist knowledge during XKEs, guiding colleagues and helping clients.

Requirements

Deep Cloud Fundamentals:
- Strong background in core cloud architecture (networking, security, IAM, compute, and storage optimization).
AI & Automation Mindset:
- Ability to leverage AI tools for automated code writing, pipeline creation, and system monitoring.
Broad Architectural Scope:
- Experience across multi-cloud environments (AWS/GCP) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
Community-Minded:
- Passionate about in-person collaboration, continuous learning, and actively participating in Xebia's knowledge-sharing culture.

Nice to Have

Experience with additional cloud platforms.
Familiarity with other AI tools and frameworks.

We Offer

Competitive salary and performance benefits
Substantial training budget, certifications, and bi-weekly XKE workshops (with dinner on us)
Club Cloud Fridays (special lunches, live updates, and team culture at Hilversum HQ)
Dedicated personal branding and career strategy support (speaking gigs, podcasts, blogging)
A supportive, people-first culture in world-class office spaces

About the Company

Being Here Matters: Our Culture & Community

AI is accelerating how fast work moves, which makes the human side of what we do more important, not less. You can do client work from home, but true growth happens in the room in hallway conversations, bi-weekly XKE knowledge-sharing sessions, and spontaneously solving complex puzzles together. We champion an active, present community. That means showing up for Club Cloud Fridays at our Hilversum HQ (complete with team updates, special lunches, and zero remote recordings), bouncing ideas off peers in Amsterdam, and actively engaging in our vibrant Slack channels. We build thought leaders who present at events, publish blogs, and shape the cloud ecosystem together.

Principal Cloud Architect & AI Automation Engineer

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