31-03-2026
Home- Amstelveen
Senior Platform Engineer – DSPC
As Senior Platform Engineer, you apply deep hands-on platform engineering expertise to design, build and operate customer-specific implementations of the Digital Sovereign Private Cloud. You work embedded within the customer context, delivering secure, resilient and compliant OpenShift-based platform environments while adhering to the standards and guardrails of the global DSPC platform.
You translate customer requirements into concrete platform configurations, integrations and extensions using Infrastructure-as-Code, automation and GitOps practices. Your contribution is essential to ensuring stable, secure and reliable customer environments in production, while continuously improving platform quality and operational excellence.
Activities
· Design, build and operate customer-specific Red Hat OpenShift clusters and platform components.
· Implement customer-driven platform configurations, integrations and extensions within approved global DSPC standards.
· Execute platform lifecycle activities including upgrades, patching, scaling, certificate management and version alignment.
· Ensure stability, resilience, security and compliance of customer platform environments.
· Troubleshoot complex cluster-level, networking, storage and platform integration issues.
· Implement and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps-based delivery for customer environments.
· Work closely with automation and security engineers to embed operational, security and compliance standards as code.
· Support incident response, root cause analysis and remediation directly in the customer environment when required.
· Validate platform changes against customer SLAs, operational requirements and compliance constraints.
· Create and maintain operational documentation and support customer handover and enablement.
· Collaborate with customer SREs or operational teams to ensure reliable day-2 operations.
Characteristics and Skills
· Strong hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift or enterprise Kubernetes platforms.
· Proven experience designing, building and operating production-grade cloud-native platforms.
· Solid knowledge of Linux systems, container runtimes, networking and storage technologies.
· Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, automation and GitOps-based delivery models.
· Strong troubleshooting skills in complex, distributed environments.
· Analytical mindset with strong ownership for platform stability and reliability.
· Self-driven, accountable team player with a strong delivery and quality focus.
· Fluent in English & Dutch.
Additional Skills & Experience
· Experience working in regulated or sovereign environments (public sector, government, defense, justice).
· Familiarity with security, compliance and operational standards in mission-critical environments.
· Experience working in customer-embedded or customer-facing engineering roles.
· Ability to operate within global platform guardrails while delivering local customer value.
· Experience collaborating with distributed platform and supplier teams.
Profile
· Position available for candidates based in the Netherlands & Belgium.
· Strong IT background with focus on platform engineering, cloud-native technologies and automation.
· Minimum of 5–8 years of relevant experience in platform engineering or similar roles.
· Comfortable working in customer environments with high availability and compliance requirements.
· Willingness to undergo required background screening (e.g. BO+).
· Relevant certifications (Red Hat, Kubernetes, Cloud) are a plus.
Willingness to travel ones a week to Amstelveen (Could be less)
What We Offer
· A key engineering role in delivering a strategic Digital Sovereign Private Cloud capability.
· Hands-on ownership of customer-specific OpenShift platform environments.
· Exposure to complex, regulated and mission-critical customer landscapes.
· Close collaboration with senior architects, automation and security specialists.
· Strong opportunities for technical growth in a high-impact DevSecOps environment.