Platform Engineer

Senior Azure Platform Engineer | Eindhoven | €120k OTE + Indefinite Contract | Build a self-service Azure platform for mission-critical workloads at one of the top 100 companies in the Netherlands | Azure, Python/GO, GitOps, Helm, CI/CD

How do you feel about working on the core, most vital infrastructure, that runs the most mission critical workloads in The Netherlands?

Our client is a mission-critical MSP that helps around 40 enterprise clients in the Netherlands design infrastructure that's air-gapped and runs their most critical workloads. This is done through self-steering teams and close cooperation, using the latest best practices to ensure strict requirements are met. If the platform goes down, vital parts of Dutch society go down — think energy supply, payment and ATM infrastructure, edge devices, fraud detection, and anti-money-laundering systems. The core focus is the complete (re)design of cloud and cloud-native solutions, and migrations from old, legacy environments to new cloud-native infrastructure.

Beyond building cloud-native Azure solutions, the organization is also keen on open-source, private cloud. It's about 500 FTE, 75% of whom are engineers. Overall, you'll have the chance to make a real impact.

Your role:

As an Azure Platform Engineer, you'll start by working on a highly complex refactor of a 30-year-old ERP system. In this role, you'll be responsible for the CI/CD architecture, designing Azure infrastructure, and automating all the processes. A software engineering background is preferred, as you won't be responsible for the core infrastructure itself, but mainly for building self-service functionality within Azure. You'll also advise the infrastructure team on (software) architecture matters, Platform Engineering best practices, and how to use IaC to roll out mostly Azure-native resources. You'll work on this project together with your team and the client. The application itself is a .NET application containing a lot of complex business logic — it's extremely mission-critical, and downtime would be severe. You'll ensure SLO/SLA requirements are met and design watertight solutions with 99.9%+ availability. The complete tech stack is yet to be defined.

Your profile:

• 5+ years in Software engineering, several of them on Azure at scale
• You've designed and built cloud platforms at more than one organization
• Experience with multi-region and global setups, connectivity, identity, and security boundaries
• Terraform or Bicep as your default, plus Bash/PowerShell or Python
• A background prior to cloud — for example, data center, bare metal, or virtualization
• Comfortable leading technical discussions with a client's engineers and architects
• Fluent in English; Dutch is a plus

Benefits: €80k–€110k base salary including 8% holiday allowance. A €10k allowance for a car or OV-card, or can be cashed out on top of your salary. 25 days of PTO, 32–40 hours a week, indefinite contract, 2 days working from home.