Cloud Engineer

RED Global; Randstad; A distancia; EUR 83.000 - 124.000; A tiempo parcial

Descripción de la vacante

RED Global is seeking an experienced freelance Cloud Native / Platform Engineer to support a highly automated cloud platform. The role is 16–24 hours per week, fully remote, with an initial 6-month term in a Netherlands-based project.

You will build and improve cloud-native platform components, automate deployments with ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, GitOps, Kubernetes, Docker, and GitHub Actions, and contribute to platform design while maintaining security and reliability.

Formación

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Docker.
• Experience with ArgoCD and GitOps.
• Experience with CI/CD and GitHub Actions.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native and declarative infrastructure.
• Able to work independently in a small team.
• Proactive, pragmatic, and solution-oriented.

Responsabilidades

• Build and improve cloud-native platform components and automation.
• Develop scalable and declarative deployment workflows.
• Work extensively with Kubernetes and Docker.
• Build and maintain automation and tooling in Python.
• Work with ArgoCD, Argo Workflows and GitOps principles.
• Improve CI/CD processes using GitHub Actions.
• Contribute to technical choices, platform design and automation standards.
• Help ensure a secure, stable and maintainable platform environment.

Conocimientos

Kubernetes

Docker

ArgoCD

GitOps

GitHub Actions

Cloud-native

Declarative infrastructure

Independent work

Proactive mindset

Herramientas

Kubernetes

Docker

ArgoCD

GitHub Actions

Argo Workflows

Python

Descripción del empleo

Freelance Cloud Native / Platform Engineer

16–24 hours per week | Remote | Initial 6 months

We are looking for an experienced freelance Cloud Native / Platform Engineer to support the further development of a highly automated cloud platform.

The platform is designed to deploy data services fully automatically. A central environment determines the configuration, after which ArgoCD and Argo Workflows handle the deployment process. The goal is a fully declarative setup: from configuration to running service, without manual steps in between.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve cloud-native platform components and automation


• Develop scalable and declarative deployment workflows


• Work extensively with Kubernetes and Docker


• Build and maintain automation and tooling in Python


• Work with ArgoCD, Argo Workflows and GitOps principles


• Improve CI/CD processes using GitHub Actions


• Contribute to technical choices, platform design and automation standards


• Help ensure a secure, stable and maintainable platform environment

Required experience

• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Docker


• Experience with ArgoCD and GitOps


• Experience with CI/CD and GitHub Actions


• Strong understanding of cloud-native and declarative infrastructure


• Comfortable working independently in a small technical team


• Proactive, pragmatic and solution-oriented mindset

Nice to have

• Experience with Argo Workflows


• Platform engineering / internal developer platform experience


• Security / Kubernetes hardening experience


• Experience with open-source technologies


• Experience with data platforms or data services


• 16–24 hours per week


• Fully remote


• Daily stand-up on Tuesday and Thursday, 09:30–10:00


• Good possibility of extension


• Start: as soon as possible


• Dutch-speaking and based in the Netherlands