As a Platform Engineer, you will be part of an ambitious and technically strong team that is responsible for developing and maintaining the existing Internal Cloud Services (on-premise IaaS and PaaS), and has the ambition to shape an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) on top of this. You will play a key role in automating development environments, improving developer experience and optimizing our cloud-native infrastructure. Click here for a short impression
We’re looking for someone with a passion for scalable systems, a developer productivity center, and experience building reliable platform solutions based on Kubernetes and the broader cloud-native landscape.
Our platforms are used intensively within WUR. What we devise and maintain is used, for example, by our Research customers to conduct groundbreaking research, so that you can also make an important contribution to our mission: “to explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life”.

Your duties and responsibilities include:

• Designing, developing, and maintaining our PaaS (Kubernetes) and our Internal Developer Platform;
• Design and management of the Kubernetes cluster and its CI/CD pipelines;
• Design and management of our Linux IaaS offerings (RedHat/Ubuntu) and the associated tooling;
• Automate platform operations;
• Monitoring and improving platform performance, security en reliability;
• Collaborate with developers to improve their workflows and offer them as self-service (XaaS) capabilities;
• You build it, you own it: you solve disruptions and performance issues together with the team itself;
• Inquiring about technical strategies, tooling choices and long-term solutions, and transforming this into manageable next steps.

• Designing, developing, and maintaining our PaaS (Kubernetes) and our Internal Developer Platform;
• Design and management of the Kubernetes cluster and its CI/CD pipelines;
• Design and management of our Linux IaaS offerings (RedHat/Ubuntu) and the associated tooling;
• Automate platform operations;
• Monitoring and improving platform performance, security en reliability;
• Collaborate with developers to improve their workflows and offer them as self-service (XaaS) capabilities;
• You build it, you own it: you solve disruptions and performance issues together with the team itself;
• Inquiring about technical strategies, tooling choices and long-term solutions, and transforming this into manageable next steps