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# Senior Platform Engineer

- **Company:** Divitel
- **Location:** Apeldoorn, Netherlands
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computing Platforms, Databases, IPTV, Python (Programming Language), Operational Data Store, RabbitMQ, Prometheus, Simple Network Management Protocols, Data Streaming, Grafana, Audio Codec, Backend, Kubernetes, Influxdb, Apache Kafka
- **Published:** November 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.werk.nl/nl/vacatures/72282403

## About the Role

What you will do - Design and evolve the MindRelay platform architecture, focusing on scalability, reliability, and observability - Build and maintain data ingestion pipelines that process millions of events per day from multi-vendor environments - Own the platform runtime: Kubernetes deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code - Collaborate with operations teams to translate monitoring requirements into platform capabilities - Mentor junior engineers and drive technical decision-making within the team - Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to incident post-mortems
What we are looking for - 5+ years of backend or platform engineering experience - Strong proficiency in Python and/or Go - Experience with event streaming systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ - Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container-based deployments - Solid understanding of observability concepts: metrics, logs, traces - Experience with time-series databases (InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, or similar) - Fluent in English; Dutch is a plus
Nice to have - Experience in telecom, IPTV, or broadcast environments - Familiarity with SNMP, MPEG monitoring, or video QoE metrics - Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, or similar observability stacks - Contributions to open-source projects

## Description

As a Senior Platform Engineer on the MindRelay team, you will be responsible for the architecture and reliability of the platform that ingests, processes, and visualises operational data from 50+ data agents across our clients' infrastructure. You will work closely with our data and product teams to ship features that directly impact operator uptime and subscriber experience.