Platform Engineer for AI & Insights Platforms

Itineris; Oost-Vlaanderen; Hybrid; EUR 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid working

Career development programs

Company car or mobility budget

Group insurance

Meal vouchers

Job summary

Itineris is seeking a Platform Engineer to own and evolve our AI & Insights platforms. You will shape architectures, build reusable components, and ensure production readiness for event-driven services using Azure Functions, AKS, and related tech.

You’ll collaborate with delivery teams to scale platforms across customers and use cases. The role emphasizes designing scalable systems, defining contracts, and mentoring engineers in a fast-growing, international environment.

Qualifications

• Several years of experience designing and building enterprise software.
• Hands-on experience designing and building REST/HTTP APIs and service contracts.
• Experience with Azure Functions and/or Azure Container Apps/AKS.
• Experience with event-driven architectures using message brokers, topics/queues, dead-lettering, idempotent consumers.
• Ability to independently explore, validate, and implement technical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve platform architectures.
• Design domain models, service boundaries, APIs, and integration patterns.
• Define event schemas and contracts for ingress and egress event flows.
• Design the anti-corruption layer that isolates core domain models.
• Drive architectural consistency across solutions.
• Design and implement core services and platform components using Azure Functions and AKS.
• Build the core insights layer that produces derived analytics and outcomes.
• Own production readiness for event-driven services: dead-lettering, retry/backoff, idempotency, and replay.
• Lead technical spikes, proofs of concepts, and architectural validations.
• Contribute production-ready code where it matters most.
• Support troubleshooting of complex technical problems.
• Design solutions that support multiple customers and use cases.
• Help establish reusable building blocks that accelerate future development.
• Identify opportunities for platform reuse and simplification.
• Ensure new capabilities can be added without significant architectural redesign.
• Guide project teams during rollout.
• Translate platform capabilities into customer-facing solutions.
• Coach and mentor engineers.
• Promote engineering best practices.
• Foster a culture of ownership and technical excellence.

Skills

Enterprise software design

Hands-on software engineering

REST APIs

Azure Functions

Azure Container Apps/AKS

Event-driven architecture

Independent problem solving

Tools

Azure Service Bus

Cosmos DB

PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

Bicep

Job description

Itineris is seeking a Platform Engineer to own and evolve our AI & Insights platforms. You will shape architectures, build reusable components, and ensure production readiness for event-driven services using Azure Functions, AKS, and related tech.

You’ll collaborate with delivery teams to scale platforms across customers and use cases. The role emphasizes designing scalable systems, defining contracts, and mentoring engineers in a fast-growing, international environment.