First Platform Engineer — Azure & Kubernetes Expert

Doghouse Recruitment; Utrecht; Hybrid; EUR 77,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible office days

Learning budget 5% of annual salary

Bonus up to €4K/year

25 vacation days

Pension scheme

Public transport reimbursement

Job summary

Doghouse Recruitment is seeking the first dedicated platform engineer to own and scale the infrastructure underpinning a leading Dutch property management platform. You’ll focus on Azure and Kubernetes, ensure secure access with Entra ID, and streamline CI/CD by moving pipelines from GitHub to Azure.

You’ll also migrate the Java stack from acquisitions onto Azure. You will join a growing team of developers in the Netherlands, with hybrid work from Utrecht and internal IT duties as needed,

Qualifications

• 5+ years infrastructure experience, DevOps or Cloud Engineer
• Hands-on Azure and Kubernetes in production
• Experience expanding/restructuring infra at scale
• Security and access management with Entra ID
• CI/CD pipelines, Terraform or Bicep
• Experience managing macOS and Windows devices with Intune or similar
• Based in the Netherlands

Responsibilities

• Own the infrastructure under Azure and Kubernetes; take over from current engineer
• Migrate CI/CD pipelines from GitHub into Azure
• Bring the Java stack from acquisitions onto Azure
• Improve security, observability, and cost insight; build backup/recovery
• Handle internal IT tasks (Intune-based devices) and user access
• Report to Head of Development

Skills

Azure

Kubernetes

Terraform

Bicep

Entra ID

Intune

Mac/Windows device mgmt

Netherlands-based

Tools

GitHub

Job description

Doghouse Recruitment is seeking the first dedicated platform engineer to own and scale the infrastructure underpinning a leading Dutch property management platform. You’ll focus on Azure and Kubernetes, ensure secure access with Entra ID, and streamline CI/CD by moving pipelines from GitHub to Azure.

You’ll also migrate the Java stack from acquisitions onto Azure. You will join a growing team of developers in the Netherlands, with hybrid work from Utrecht and internal IT duties as needed,