Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - Kubernetes, GitOps & CI/CD

Sytac - Openings; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited Growth Days

Best Gear: private laptop (€4,000) and

Growth budget €2,400/year for training

3.75% pension contribution

Annual ski trips and social events

Job summary

Senior Platform Engineer at Sytac leads the design and evolution of a cloud-native platform used by multiple engineering teams in the Netherlands. You will architect Kubernetes-based infrastructure, own IaC standards with Terraform, and drive scalable CI/CD pipelines with GitOps workflows such as ArgoCD.

You will collaborate with developers to improve platform usability and reliability, and help shape an Internal Developer Platform to empower teams to self-serve infrastructure and deployments.

Qualifications

• Senior-level Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience across cloud providers — you set the standard, not just follow it.
• Extensive Kubernetes experience — GKE, EKS, AKS or equivalent — at an architectural level.
• Proven CI/CD experience at scale — multiple teams, multiple pipelines, complex workloads.
• Hands-on ArgoCD experience in a production environment.
• Solid GitOps experience — ArgoCD, Flux, or both — across more than one employer or context.
• A platform mindset: you build for others, optimise for usability, and care about developer experience as much as infrastructure correctness.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain cloud-native platform infrastructure with Kubernetes as a first-class citizen — architecture-level ownership, not just operations.
• Own and evolve Infrastructure as Code at senior level using Terraform — setting standards, not just implementing them.
• Build and scale CI/CD pipelines that serve multiple teams and workloads at scale, ensuring fast, reliable, and secure delivery.
• Implement and maintain GitOps workflows using ArgoCD — driving deployment consistency and auditability across environments.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve developer experience and platform reliability.
• Contribute to and potentially help build an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that enables teams to self-serve infrastructure and deployment capabilities.

Skills

Terraform

Kubernetes architecture

CI/CD pipelines

GitOps

ArgoCD

Platform mindset

Tools

GKE

EKS

AKS

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Senior Platform Engineer at Sytac leads the design and evolution of a cloud-native platform used by multiple engineering teams in the Netherlands. You will architect Kubernetes-based infrastructure, own IaC standards with Terraform, and drive scalable CI/CD pipelines with GitOps workflows such as ArgoCD.

You will collaborate with developers to improve platform usability and reliability, and help shape an Internal Developer Platform to empower teams to self-serve infrastructure and deployments.