Senior AI Platform Engineer – Sovereign K8s & GitOps

Gazelle Global; Amstelveen; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Gazelle Global Consulting is seeking a Senior AI Platform Engineer to own and evolve the enterprise-grade AI platform in a sovereign environment. You will work within the Sovereign AI team, collaborating with PMs, POs and other AI engineers to scale for mission-critical workloads in Amstelveen/Eindhoven, NL.

You will drive the end-to-end lifecycle of platform tooling, contribute to security and governance, and help migrate from public cloud to regulated hardware while maintaining autonomy and

Qualifications

• Several years of developing self-managed Kubernetes in production, not only AKS, EKS or GKE.
• GitOps with ArgoCD or Flux, and OpenTofu or Terraform.
• Software engineering skills: TypeScript for Backstage plugins, plus Go or Python, and API design.
• Security practice: least privilege, OIDC, network policy, supply chain.

Responsibilities

• Build the tenant portal, probably on Backstage: onboarding, tokens, limits and usage.
• Build the catalogue service and the deploy flow. A tenant selects a model and a TPM/RPM limit. The platform creates the endpoint, the gateway limits and the capacity.
• Move the platform from Azure to the sovereign hardware (H200, Ceph, 25 GbE) and keep it ready for air-gapped use.
• Maintain the GitOps chain: ArgoCD, OpenTofu, pinned and mirrored dependencies, admission policies.
• Operate gateway, identity and secrets: Envoy Gateway, Keycloak, SpiceDB, OpenBao.

Skills

AI Platform

Kubernetes

GitOps

ArgoCD

Flux

OpenTofu

Terraform

TypeScript

Go

Python

Least privilege

OIDC

Network policy

Supply chain

Tools

Talos

Rook-Ceph

Gateway API

GPU Operator

Job description

Gazelle Global Consulting is seeking a Senior AI Platform Engineer to own and evolve the enterprise-grade AI platform in a sovereign environment. You will work within the Sovereign AI team, collaborating with PMs, POs and other AI engineers to scale for mission-critical workloads in Amstelveen/Eindhoven, NL.

You will drive the end-to-end lifecycle of platform tooling, contribute to security and governance, and help migrate from public cloud to regulated hardware while maintaining autonomy and