Hybrid OpenShift & Observability Platform Engineer

swift; Leiden; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

On-call rotation

Hybrid office near Leiden

Job summary

Swift is building a modern OpenShift platform and you will shape and operate the enterprise OpenShift environment, ensuring high availability, scalability and resilience for critical applications across Europe.

This hands-on Senior Platform Engineer role focuses on platform reliability, observability, automation and GitOps, with collaboration across two squads and a hybrid, Leiden-area location.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineer or Senior DevOps Engineer in complex production environments.
• Hands-on expertise with OpenShift and/or Kubernetes.
• Experience designing and operating observability solutions, including logging, monitoring and alerting platforms.
• Practical experience defining and managing SLIs, SLOs, SLAs and error budgets.
• Strong understanding of production operations, incident response and reliability engineering principles.
• A passion for automation, continuous improvement and solving complex technical challenges.

Responsibilities

• Shape and operate Swift's enterprise OpenShift platform, ensuring high availability, scalability and resilience for critical applications.
• Lead the design and implementation of observability capabilities across metrics, logs and traces.
• Establish and evolve SLIs, SLOs and SLAs that drive measurable reliability improvements.
• Develop and maintain scalable monitoring and logging solutions using Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK).
• Partner with application teams to onboard workloads to the platform and promote Site Reliability Engineering best practices.
• Drive incident management, root cause analysis and post-incident learning to improve platform reliability over time.
• Design, develop and enhance platform services and capabilities on OpenShift to improve customer experience, security, scalability and operational efficiency.
• Operate, maintain and continuously improve enterprise OpenShift clusters, including upgrades, lifecycle management, security compliance and platform resilience.
• Collaborate across two closely connected squads covering platform engineering and application onboarding, providing opportunities to contribute across multiple areas of the platform.
• Eliminate operational toil through automation and self-service capabilities.
• Automate operational processes through Infrastructure as Code, GitOps and engineering-first approaches.
• Participate in on-call rotation, helping ensure the reliability of services supporting business-critical workloads.

Skills

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Observability design

SLI/SLO/SLAs

Incident management

Automation

GitOps

Tools

ELK stack

ArgoCD

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Swift is building a modern OpenShift platform and you will shape and operate the enterprise OpenShift environment, ensuring high availability, scalability and resilience for critical applications across Europe.

This hands-on Senior Platform Engineer role focuses on platform reliability, observability, automation and GitOps, with collaboration across two squads and a hybrid, Leiden-area location.