Platform Engineer

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.

· 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.