Senior Openshift Platform Engineer

Of course, as an employer, we also have a lot to offer you. This is what you get from us:

• A gross monthly salary of at least €5,945 and a maximum of €9,177 depending on your work experience, based on 40 hours excluding 8% holiday allowance
• 13th month, part of it is paid out monthly and part in January of the following year. Or you can put it towards a FLEX & BOOST goal of your choice! Click here to read more about it
• An annual individual and collective increase in accordance with our CAO
• € 1500 per year in availability budget that you may use at your own discretion for, for example, training, coaching, and courses
• Flexible days off: our colleagues may decide for themselves (in consultation with the manager) how they manage their leave
• A good work-life balance (such as 2 days in the office, 3 days at home, transition leave, exchanging a public holiday for a holiday of your religious or cultural preference)
• Home office workshop to optimally set up your workspace at home, including a mobile phone & laptop, of course
• 50% discount on our products and services, so you can browse the internet, call, and stream affordably
• Good travel expense reimbursement: you receive full reimbursement for your public transport costs or € 0.23 per kilometer if you travel by car. Prefer to come by bike? Then you can claim our bicycle allowance of € 0.40 per kilometer
• Possibility to purchase a lease bike that KPN contributes to monthly (with an indefinite contract): from city bikes to e-bikes and from racing bikes to speed-pedelecs; you choose what you ride
• Excellent pension conditions: a total contribution of 25% of your pensionable salary, of which KPN contributes 17.5% and you 7.5%

As a Site Reliability Engineer within Tech Hub Private Cloud, you will work on Managed OpenShift platforms running mission-critical applications for organizations in sectors including government, healthcare, industry, and vital infrastructure.

Your focus? Not just resolving disruptions, but primarily ensuring they occur less frequently. Using automation, observability, and operational data, you will make our platforms increasingly stable, secure, and scalable.

You work according to the Everything as Code principle and look beyond the boundaries of individual components. From Kubernetes and Linux to networking, storage, security, and observability.

What will you do?

You will work on, among others:

• Increasing the availability, stability, and scalability of our OpenShift platforms.
• Automating platform management with GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD.
• Deploying observability to make risks and opportunities for improvement visible early on.
• Using SLOs and Error Budgets to make reliability measurable.
• Analyzing complex disruptions and performing Root Cause Analyses.
• Structurally automating and preventing recurring incidents.
• OpenShift upgrades, lifecycle management, platform hardening, capacity management, and Disaster Recovery.
• Improving security, for example with Policy as Code, RBAC, image scanning, and multi-tenancy.

In doing so, you will work closely with colleagues from Platform Engineering, Operations, Security, and Architecture.

A great example of an initiative you can contribute to is the further development of our managed OpenShift platform. In this, new customer environments are rolled out according to a standardized pattern, where components such as tenant configuration, security policies, secret management, container registries, and GitOps deployments become automatically available. This is how we build a scalable platform upon which customers can onboard faster, management can be further automated, and platform upgrades can proceed in a controlled and predictable manner.

For us, it is not about how many years a certain job title has been on your CV, but primarily about what you have demonstrably achieved.

You have practical experience with

• Kubernetes, preferably Red Hat OpenShift, in a production or platform environment.
• Linux, networking, storage, and troubleshooting.
• GitOps and Infrastructure as Code, for example with Terraform, Ansible, or Helm.
• Monitoring and observability of complex platform environments.
• Analyzing technical problems across multiple components of a platform.
• You have HBO or WO working and thinking levels and possess good command of Dutch or English

Additionally, you think beyond the immediate solution. You use data to support choices, take ownership, and actively seek collaboration when an issue touches upon multiple technical disciplines.