[5859] Senior Platform Engineer – DSPC

Contract type: Freelance
Location: Amstelveen, Netherlands - Hybrid
Contract length: Long term
Languages: English and Dutch (mandatory)

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.

Skills:

• 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.

Required 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.