Cloud Platform Engineer

As our Cloud Platform Engineer, you’ll be helping to build the platform that our development teams work on. You’ll develop and manage our cloud platform, with a secure and scalable landing zone and an EKS-based development platform at its heart. You’ll also make sure that sound security, compliance and observability arrangements are in place from day 1, and that everything is automated and well organised.

Together with your fellow engineers, you’ll help workload teams to develop solutions more quickly and securely. You’ll contribute to platform improvement discussions and take the initiative on process automation. Working closely with our DevOps and security teams, you’ll be one of the driving forces behind our platform strategy.

Here's what you'll be doing:

• Designing, implementing and managing the cloud landing zone in line with best practices (e.g. multi-account structure, guardrails, SCPs)

• Developing and maintaining the developer platform with e.g. EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service), CI/CD pipeline integration (GitOps via ArgoCD), service mesh (Linkerd), Logging (Loki), monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana), integration with AWS services such as RDS, S3, Secrets Manager within the Kubernetes environment

• Configuring observability tooling: monitoring, logging, tracing (e.g. CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)

• Exercising responsibility for platform security and compliance (IAM, network segmentation, encryption, audit logging, etc)

• Automating platform operations with Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, CDK)

• Supporting and advising development and product teams on secure and efficient use of cloud

• Continuously improving the platform’s performance, reliability and security

Our core values of customer focus, trustworthiness, innovation, independence and professionalism strike a chord with you. And you want to keep learning and developing. If that sounds like you, you'll fit right in! Because we allow people to be themselves.

You'll also have:

• At least 3 years' experience with cloud infrastructure and platform engineering

• Detailed knowledge of cloud services, such as: IAM, VPC, S3, CloudTrail, Config, GuardDuty, Control Tower, EKS, Lambda

• Demonstrable experience with Kubernetes (preferably EKS), containerisation (Docker), CI/CD tooling (GitLab, ArgoCD), IaC (Cloudformation)

• Extensive experience with Cloud Security and security and compliance standards (e.g. ISO 27001, CIS benchmarks, NIST)

• Experience with observability frameworks and tooling

• Good coding skills (Python, Bash)

• Excellent communication skills in Dutch and/or English

• Strong teamworking and communication skills

Your qualifications:

Required:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Desirable:

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

• AWS Certified Security – Specialty

• CNCF Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Not got all those qualifications yet? Don’t worry: we’ll provide the opportunity and support to enable you to get them.

• An impactful position in a modern cloud landscape;

• Flexibility: hybrid working from home and at the office in Arnhem;

• Study budget and time for certifications and knowledge development;

• A dynamic, professional team with a lot of technical expertise;

• Working with the latest technologies in a platform-driven environment.

For us, it's all about balance. Balance between hard work and relaxation, between performance and reward, between your ambitions and ours, between an inspiring office environment and the convenience of working from home, and of course between professional and private life. We utilise the latest technologies for easy collaboration, remotely, physically and in hybrid forms. We also make sure that our people have well-equipped home workstations, plus access to an office space with everything they need to get together, collaborate and inspire each another. If you want to go running or visit granny during office hours, we're okay with that. As long as you live up to your professional responsibilities, we'll work out between us exactly how and when you do your work. And we're not fans of formal appraisal. What really matters is year-round personal development. Where you take the lead. Helping us to consolidate our status as a major, unique player in the internet technology sector.

Pay and other benefits

What's in it for you? First, ample opportunity for growth and skills development. After all, you'll be helping us take our IT set-up in a whole new direction. On-the-job growth will go hand-in-hand with training-based personal development -- for which we have a generous budget! There's an attractive benefits package as well:

• Gross monthly salary of up to €5,700, depending on professional experience

• Holiday pay of 8 per cent, plus a thirteenth salary payment

• A variable collective bonus of up to 4 per cent

• An attractive extra bonus if you introduce us to a new colleague

• A basic holiday allowance of 25 days, plus scope for building up to 13 days' occasional leave entitlement, if you work full time

• A pension with ABP, with an 80 per cent contribution from SIDN

• A business rail card if you come to work by public transport

• A travel allowance if you come to work using your own transport

• A PluralSight licence and the opportunity to acquire other certificates

• A daily home working allowance for every day that you work from home

• A complete, healthy home workstation

• €55 a month (net) for your home broadband

• €25 a month (gross) contribution to your health insurance

• Additional paternity leave on full pay

• An optional cycle lease scheme, where SIDN covers 50 per cent of the lease cost, up to a maximum of €60 (gross) per month

• €500 a year to donate to a good cause of your choice

• Your own .nl domain name and hosting package

• Professional coaching and budget coaching

• A relocation allowance if taking the job means moving house

Everything above is for a full-time role.

The selection procedure includes screening, which involves obtaining a Certificate of Good Behaviour (similar to a criminal record check), and performing reference and integrity checks.