Platform Engineer

RTL Nederland; Hilversum; On-site; EUR 50,220 - 78,120; Full time

Job summary

RTL Nederland is seeking a Platform Engineer to strengthen our scalable infrastructure and cloud-native stack. You will work with Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, Argo Rollouts, Azure and the Grafana stack to build reliable, observable systems.

The role emphasizes collaboration, learning, and applying modern tooling such as Terraform, Go, Helm and Bash scripting to improve efficiency, security and reliability of platform operations.

Qualifications

• Experience with cloud providers (Azure, AWS, GCP) or similar systems.
• Familiarity with cloud-native ecosystems, containers and Kubernetes.
• Proficient with Go, Helm, Terraform and Bash scripting, with willingness to deepen skills.
• Foundational understanding of cloud security concepts and tools.
• Focus on efficiency, stability, observability, and reliability in operations.
• Ability to work collaboratively and independently on tasks.
• Enthusiasm for learning new technologies to improve infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Assist in building and supporting infrastructure for scalable apps with high traffic.
• Collaborate to support a culture of ownership—monitor, run and secure it.
• Leverage external services as needed to solve problems.
• Support technical requests from development teams.
• Contribute to development environments using Go, Terraform, Helm and Bash.
• Develop understanding of security systems and tools.
• Participate in scaling and performance optimization efforts.
• Share knowledge through pairing, talks or external speaking.
• Work with Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, Argo Rollouts, Azure, Grafana Stack, NGINX, Kong, Akamai.

Skills

Cloud providers

Kubernetes

Go

Helm

Terraform

Bash

Cloud security basics

Observability

Collaboration

Willingness to learn

Tools

ArgoCD

Argo Workflows

Argo Rollouts

Azure

Grafana

NGINX

Kong

Akamai

Job description

RTL’s Platform Engineer should possess the following skills and experience:

• Some experience with one or more cloud service providers such as Azure, AWS, GCP, or a similar system.
• Familiarity with the cloud-native ecosystem, containers, Kubernetes, etc.
• Basic proficiency in building and deploying with some of the technologies: Go, Helm, Terraform, and bash scripting, with a desire to deepen these skills.
• A foundational understanding of cloud security systems, techniques, and tools, with a willingness to learn more.
• Focus on ensuring efficiency, stability, observability and reliability in system operations.
• Ability to work collaboratively with the team and independently on assigned tasks.
• Enthusiasm for learning new technologies and applying them to improve infrastructure.

Your Tasks

As a Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for the following tasks:

• Assisting in building and supporting infrastructure for scalable applications that handle high levels of traffic.
• Collaborating with the team to support our culture of "you build it, you monitor, run, and secure it" by providing tools and support.
• Utilizing external services when needed to find effective solutions.
• Supporting and assisting with technical requests from developers teams as required.
• Contributing to the building and deployment of development environments using skills such as Go, Terraform, Helm, and bash scripting
• Developing a growing understanding of security systems, techniques, and tools.
• Participating in scaling and performance optimization efforts by helping to identify potential growth areas and suggesting solutions.
• Sharing your knowledge/experience/interests with others - be it through pairing, a company passion talk or speaking externally.
• Working with our technical stack: Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, Argo Rollouts, Azure, Grafana Stack, NGINX, Kong, Akamai

About us

RTL started in 1989 as the first commercial broadcaster in the Netherlands. Our mission has not changed since then: we want to reach and inspire everyone in the Netherlands with essential stories that touch the heart and mind. RTL has five television channels (RTL 4, RTL 5, RTL 7, RTL 8 and RTL Z), streaming platform Videoland, three digital theme channels (RTL Lounge, RTL Crime, RTL Telekids), sales organization Ad Alliance and the platforms RTL.nl and RTL Weer / Buienradar. RTL Nieuws, Editie NL and RTL Z bring you 24/7 the latest news, their own journalistic research and interpretation via the broadcasts, website, app and socials.

Salary range: €4,500 – €7,000 per month, depending on experience