Linux Platform Engineer (SaaS)

Schuberg Philis; Schiphol-Rijk; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Schuberg Philis seeks a Mission Critical Engineer to join the SaaS Team. You will build, run, and optimize mission critical cloud services with a focus on automation, Kubernetes, and multitenant architectures.

You will collaborate with customer teams, implement infrastructure as code, and push for continuous delivery and security improvements across the stack. This role is based at Schiphol-Rijk in the Netherlands and involves hands-on engineering in Linux environments.

Qualifications

• Strong experience operating Linux in production
• Proven experience with Kubernetes clusters and multitenant environments
• Hands-on with private and public clouds (AWS, Azure)
• Proficient in IaC, Git and GitOps workflows, and self-hosted CI/CD pipelines

Responsibilities

• Plan, build, run and continuously improve SaaS services
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes for multi-tenant workloads
• Develop automation pipelines with Terraform, Chef and Ansible
• Automate infrastructure with scripting (Python, Bash, Go)
• Collaborate with customer teams to translate requirements into platform services
• Triage performance and reliability across the stack
• Evaluate new open/closed source software and vendors

Skills

Linux

Kubernetes

Multitenant systems

Public/Private clouds

IaC / GitOps

CI/CD pipelines

Automation scripting

Tools

Terraform

Chef

Ansible

Python

Bash

Job description

Build the mission critical services that enable our customers’ and our internal engineers.

Schuberg Philis – Mission Critical Engineer / SaaS Team

At Schuberg Philis, we continuously work with the latest open-source and cloud technologies to build resilient, mission critical platforms for our customers.

We’re looking for a new team member who is passionate about automation, enthusiastic about open-source tools, and skilled at managing multitenant, highly available services on a large scale.

What will you be doing?

In this role, you will be part of the engineering team that plans, builds, runs, and continuously improves the SaaS services for customers and Schuberg Philis. Your responsibilities include:

Platform Engineering & Operations

• Building and enhancing SaaS services.
• Managing and optimizing Kubernetes.
• Ensuring high availability across multiple zones and tenants.

Automation & Infrastructure as Code

• Developing automated deployment and configuration pipelines using tools such as Terraform, Chef, and Ansible.
• Eliminating manual work through scripting (e.g., Python, Bash, Go).
• Maintaining reproducible, testable infrastructure patterns.
• Being an ambassador for DevOps, GitOps, and continuous delivery principles

Collaboration & Customer Engagement

• Working closely with customer teams to translate requirements into platform services.
• Helping customers adopt new services or capabilities built by the SaaS team.
• Troubleshooting performance and operational issues across the entire stack.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Evaluating new open and closed source software. Be involved with vendors and open-source communities.
• Introducing enhancements that improve automation, security, or scalability.
• Staying aligned with evolving industry best practices around cloud native and private cloud engineering.

Who are we looking for?

You are deeply experienced in building and operating Linux based cloud and Kubernetes environments. You have a passion for building and operating services and platforms and are always trying to move the needle. Your background includes:

Core Expertise

• Strong experience with Linux and networking in highly available, secure production environments.
• Proven experience operating Kubernetes clusters.
• Experience managing multitenant environments at scale.
• Experience with private and public clouds (AWS, Azure)
• Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Git and GitOps workflows, and self-hosted CI/CD pipelines.

Nice to have

• Having built and maintained an Internal Developer Platform
• Programming and scripting proficiency in Bash, Go, or Python.
• Experience developing custom Kubernetes Operators.
• Having worked with OpenStack or CloudStack.
• Experience with managing one or more of Windows Server, Active Directory Domain Services, SQL Server, Entra ID

General Engineering Competencies

• Team player mindset and ownership mentality.
• Can-do attitude.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems.
• Experience in mission critical environments is a strong plus.

Overall Knowledge & Principles

You operate with an engineering mindset:

• Plan, build, run
• Automation at the core
• Apply Infrastructure as Code everywhere.
• Build for multi-AZ, multitenant reliability.
• Document and share knowledge.
• Work hands-on with customer teams.
• Build and maintain secure, compliant, high-performance services.

Does this sound like you?

We’d love to meet you! You’ll join the SaaS team — a high trust engineering community building the next generation of Schuberg Philis’ services: open, automated, built to run mission critical workloads.

Everyone we work with and consider working with has a right to equal treatment. The hiring and appraisal process at Schuberg Philis is designed to be thorough and equitable, implementing fair payment, benefits, and opportunities across all demographics.
It is our desire to be a company that brings together multiple nationalities, cultures, religions, genders, abilities, and talents within and across our teams. We welcome colleagues from diverse backgrounds to join Schuberg Philis and actively support diversity and inclusion in the tech industry.