Cloud Engineer - AWS Cloud Architect
We’re looking for an AWS Cloud Architect to support our mission of making the sports world greener, smarter, and more sustainable. In this role, you’ll design and manage a scalable, secure, and future-proof cloud infrastructure that forms the foundation of our connected products and advanced turf management solutions.
“Who doesn’t get excited about smart technology that truly makes an impact? At SGL, everything revolves around developing innovative software solutions for high-tech products used worldwide. Think autonomous robots, smart IoT solutions, and cloud-based systems used by leading sports clubs and other high-performance environments.
As a software engineer, you will work on diverse and challenging projects where software, hardware, and connectivity come together. Whether you’re enhancing the intelligence of our systems, ensuring seamless cloud integration, or building scalable architectures—your work will have a direct impact on the performance of our products in real-world applications.
You’ll be part of a small but highly driven team of engineers, working in an agile environment with a pragmatic, results-oriented approach. We’re looking for someone who doesn’t just write code but also thinks critically about the best solutions and isn’t afraid to step off the beaten path.
And when you hear that our technology runs flawlessly and clients are thrilled with its performance, you’ll know exactly why you’re doing this. Are you excited to develop innovative software with real impact? Then we’d love to have you on our team!”
Dennis van Lent – Technical Director Software & Systems
Your role
As an AWS Cloud Architect at SGL, you will be responsible for designing and managing scalable, secure, and high-performance cloud infrastructure that supports our connected products and turf management solutions. You’ll work closely with software, hardware, and product teams to ensure our cloud systems are robust, efficient, and future-proof. Your work will play a key role in enabling SGL’s innovation roadmap.
Key responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and manage AWS cloud architecture to support data-intensive applications and connected IoT devices.
- Define cloud infrastructure standards and best practices in collaboration with development and DevOps teams.
- Lead the design of scalable backend systems that support telemetry, remote control, and data visualization.
- Monitor system performance and ensure high availability, reliability, and security across cloud services.
- Automate cloud resource provisioning and deployment using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Assist in the migration of existing systems to AWS and ensure seamless integration with internal tools.
- Work with stakeholders to evaluate new technologies and guide architectural decisions.
Your profile
You are a systems thinker with a deep understanding of cloud platforms and a strong drive to turn architectural vision into operational reality. You thrive in a collaborative environment and enjoy bridging technical depth with strategic impact.
Your qualifications
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- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- Minimum 3–5 years of experience in designing and managing AWS environments.
- Strong grasp of cloud-native design patterns, microservices, and serverless architectures.
- Proficiency with AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, IoT Core, Lambda, API Gateway, IAM, and CloudWatch.
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform, or CDK).
- Solid understanding of networking, security, and identity management in AWS.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerization (e.g., Docker, AWS Fargate, or EKS).
- Fluent in English; proficiency in Dutch is a plus.
Preferred skills
- Familiarity with Flutter or embedded software platforms like Yocto.
- Experience with hybrid cloud setups or edge-to-cloud architectures.
- Experience working in multidisciplinary teams (software/hardware/mechanical).
- Interest in sports technology and innovation.
What we offer
At SGL, you’ll join an ambitious team in a dynamic international work environment, developing innovative and unique products used worldwide. This is a role with a high level of responsibility, room for personal growth, and a great working atmosphere.
Our benefits
- Competitive salary based on experience.
- Bonus structure based on company and personal performance.
- Pension plan (60% employer contribution).
- Travel allowance (€0.23 per km).
- Phone allowance.
- Home office allowance.
- 25 vacation days.
- Corporate fitness program.
We value personal development and offer the opportunity to follow job-related training courses to enhance your skills and help elevate our software team.
For the first few months, we prefer to have you on-site as much as possible, but after that, you can work up to two days per week remotely in a full-time role.
And of course, we believe that work should be enjoyable! That’s why we have fun traditions like ‘Patatdag’ on Fridays, plus regular team bonding activities. Each department receives a budget for team-building events, so whether it’s a hackathon, a padel match, a dinner, or a football game, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to connect with your colleagues.
Interested? Apply now!
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Would you like more information? Contact Dennis van Lent via d.vanlent@sglsystem.com.
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We will call you to get acquainted
Your cv gives us a first impression, but we are also curious about you as a person. So we will always call you to get acquainted. Then we can immediately answer any questions and see if we are on the same page in terms of expectations.
Are we both curious for more? Then we would like to invite you for a cup of coffee, so you can see our office.
Stop by the office for a first interview
After our phone conversation, it’s time for a face-to-face introduction. We would like to invite you to our office in Waddinxveen for a first meeting.
While enjoying a cup of coffee (or something else) we will go deeper into the position, SGL and of course you as a person.
Both parties still satisfied? Then we would like to invite you to visit us again.
2nd interview
If we are both still enthusiastic we would like to invite you for a second interview. We can go into topics that are still unclear from us or maybe you still have questions that we can answer.
For some positions, we may ask you to take an assessment before your second interview.
Contract proposal
If after the second interview we are convinced that you are the right addition to our team, and you yourself are still enthusiastic, we will forward you a contract proposal and we hope you will come to our office to sign.
Welcome aboard!
Both completely satisfied? Then we can officially shake hands!
Congratulations and welcome to SGL!
Your future colleagues
About SGL
SGL plays an extraordinary role behind the scenes of professional sports. In 2002, we developed a revolutionary system that optimises the growing conditions of pitches in football stadiums; we provide grounds teams around the world with the tools and support necessary to maintain a consistent, high-quality playing surface year-round.
Since then, we have expanded our market to include baseball, cricket, golf, American football, Australian football, tennis and rugby. We have developed many new products, expanded our market and strengthened our position as market leader; now more than 600 of the largest sports stadiums worldwide use our system Currently, we work with an international team of about 60 enthusiastic and driven employees, 45 of which are based in the Netherlands.
