Platform Engineer

Doghouse Recruitment; Randstad; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Electric lease car

Public transport card

Cash allowance (≈€820/month)

Learning budget

Job summary

Doghouse Recruitment is assisting a client in critical IT/Managed Services to hire an Azure-focused DevOps engineer. You join a team owning a single customer environment, building containers, web apps and scalable databases with failover. You design CI/CD, observability, and automation with Terraform, Python, and shell.

The role emphasizes design of cost-aware infrastructure, monitoring, on-call readiness, and Dutch language fluency with proximity to Eindhoven.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in cloud or DevOps engineering with Azure as your main platform.
• You build cloud native application platforms: containers, web apps, databases with replicas and failover, API gateway, DNS, load balancing.
• Terraform as your default for infrastructure as code.
• CI/CD pipelines you designed yourself in Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or Jenkins.
• Scripting or development in Python or Go, and you can read a .NET or Java codebase.
• Monitoring, observability and on-call experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the Azure-based platform for a customer environment with CI/CD and zero-downtime deployments.
• Design and implement pipelines, tests, and monitoring with Terraform, Python, and shell.
• Interface with in-house building blocks and private registries for secure automation.

Skills

Cloud/DevOps experience

Azure specialist

CI/CD design

Scripting (Python/Go)

Reading .NET/Java code

Observability/On-call

Dutch language

Tools

Terraform

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Job description

[Business Critical IT / Managed Services]

Empty Azure accounts in, a layered platform out. Containers, replicated databases, queues, and pipelines that roll out without downtime.

My client takes over the systems large organisations cannot afford to lose, designs them, builds them, and then runs them for years. You join a team of seven with full technical ownership of one customer environment and almost no management layer above it. That team is rebuilding an application that carries a national order to invoice flow, thirty years of legacy code with more than thirty integrations hanging off it. The old system was reverse engineered with an AI toolset and is now being rebuilt from the business logic up. The customer works in sustainability, so what you keep running has an effect outside the office.

What you'll do

You are the Azure specialist in a team of software engineers. The base landing zone is delivered by another party, so you are not wiring up the corporate network. What you build is the platform the application lands on: containers, web apps, scalable databases with regional replicas and failover, caching, queues, API gateway, DNS and load balancing. Roughly two thirds of your time goes into CI/CD and running the thing, so pipelines that run unit, integration and stress tests and roll out without downtime, plus monitoring, observability and the on call setup around priority one incidents. The rest is design, taking functional and non functional requirements and deciding which Azure services to use and what each trade off costs. It is all automated with Terraform, Python and shell, never clicked together in the portal. You also work with the in house building blocks and private registries, because nothing gets pulled straight from the open internet here.

Your profile

• 5+ years in cloud or DevOps engineering with Azure as your main platform
• You build cloud native application platforms: containers, web apps, databases with replicas and failover, API gateway, DNS, load balancing
• Terraform as your default for infrastructure as code
• CI/CD pipelines you designed yourself, with test stages and zero downtime deployments, in Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or Jenkins
• Scripting or development in Python or Go, and you can read a .NET or Java codebase
• You have run what you built, so monitoring, observability and on call
• Fluent Dutch and you live within reach of Eindhoven

What's in it for you

Up to €100K gross per year including holiday pay. An indefinite contract from day one, 32 to 40 hours, and three days a week from the office near Eindhoven. You pick your own mobility: an electric lease car, a first class public transport card, or around €820 a month in cash instead. Twenty five holidays on paper, and nobody counts them as long as the customer commitments hold. The learning budget has no real ceiling, you only need your team to agree on the time and your coach on the money.