Platform Engineer - Kubernetes

TomTom International BV
Amsterdam, Netherlands
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Junior

Job location

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Tech stack

API
Artificial Intelligence
Distributed Systems
Software Engineering
TypeScript
Cloud Platform System
Istio
Kubernetes
Azure
Terraform

Job description

  • Work with a team of highly experienced engineers to design, build, and operate a multi-tenant Kubernetes platform

  • Drive the architecture and evolution of secure, isolated, and scalable multi-tenant Kubernetes environments, ensuring strong workload separation and resource governance

  • Contribute to cluster architecture, tenant isolation, and platform reliability improvements

  • Build and maintain scalable and highly available infrastructure on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

  • Improve platform observability using OpenTelemetry (logs/traces) and VictoriaMetrics (metrics)

  • Implement and evolve networking solutions using Gateway API and Istio Ambient Mesh

  • Enforce platform security and governance using Kyverno policies

  • Work with GitOps-based deployment workflows using Flux, ensuring declarative, version-controlled platform and workload management

  • Work closely with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform

  • Participate in on-call rotations and operational excellence initiatives

Requirements

  • 1-4 years of software engineering experience

  • Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes (multi-tenant environments preferred)

  • Good understanding of cloud-native infrastructure and distributed systems

  • Experience with observability, networking, or platform engineering concepts

  • Strong fundamentals in software engineering and system design

  • Ability to communicate effectively in English

Nice to Have

  • Experience with Go or TypeScript

  • Interest in building AI agents or automation tooling for platform operations

  • Passion for large-scale distributed systems and platform engineering

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