Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Belsimpel; Groningen; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 vacation days plus option to buy 5 more

Monthly vacation allowance

Discounts at local businesses

Friends & Family vouchers

Training programs and one-on-one coaching

Social activities like game nights

Job summary

A leading tech company in Groningen is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer who will lead and enhance their infrastructure strategy. This role involves designing scalable infrastructures and collaborating across teams to implement improvements. Candidates should have deep experience in complex systems, a strong security background, and excellent communication skills. The company offers a competitive salary, a good pension scheme, and a flexible working environment with a maximum of two remote days per week.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in infrastructure engineering.
• Deep experience in designing and maintaining complex infrastructure systems.
• Fluent in English and comfortable collaborating with others.
• Ability to manage cross-team dependencies and drive large technical changes
• Ownership mindset and a strong presence within the team

Responsibilities

• Lead projects and make technical decisions.
• Design and implement robust, scalable infrastructure.
• Improve incident response processes.
• Defining strategy for observability, security, and automation
• Improving incident response processes and leading postmortems
• Executing large-scale migrations (CI/CD, data centers, platform changes)
• Mapping and managing complex dependencies between teams and systems
• Coaching colleagues, doing technical reviews, and sharing knowledge

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Security

Monitoring

Networking

Tools

Prometheus

Ceph

NGINX

HAProxy

GitOps

Hashicorp Vault

Vault

Ceph

NGINX

HAProxy

Helm

Flux

Job description

We’re hiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer.

Tech stack: Kubernetes, Flux, Ceph, Prometheus, Terraform, Ansible, HAProxy, Helm, NGINX

You are able to work at the office in Groningen, we have a remote working policy of a maximum of 2 days per week.

Our tech & workflow

• Infra: Private cloud with Kubernetes, Ceph storage, Helm, NGINX, HAProxy

• Automation & monitoring: Terraform, Ansible, GitOps (Flux), Prometheus, Loki, Grafana

• Security & secrets management: Hashicorp Vault

• Stack: Fully self-managed, across 3 colocations in the Groningen region

• Workflow: High responsibility, short iterations, full technical freedom. We document well, release frequently, and continuously improve

Our team takes full ownership of our infrastructure. We actively replace legacy systems, experiment with new tech, and constantly look for ways to improve.

What you'll do

You lead projects, make technical decisions, and contribute to improving our infrastructure strategy. You collaborate with engineers, product managers, and other teams to deliver platform-wide improvements.

Examples of what you’ll work on:

• Designing and implementing robust, scalable infrastructure

• Defining strategy for observability, security, and automation

• Improving incident response processes and leading postmortems

• Executing large-scale migrations (e.g. CI/CD, data centers, platform changes)

• Mapping and managing complex dependencies between teams and systems

• Coaching colleagues, doing technical reviews, and sharing knowledge

What do we offer?

In addition to a good salary, a favorable pension scheme, and 25 vacation days per year (option to buy 5 more), you can also count on:

Terms of employment

• Monthly vacation allowance so you don’t have to wait for it.

• Lots of discounts at local businesses.

• Friends & Family vouchers.

Personal growth

• Training programs, one-on-one coaching, and peer learning sessions.

• The opportunity to take on more and more responsibility.

Culture & activities

• Plenty of (optional) social activities such as board game and video game nights, chess, bouldering, and Friday afternoon get-togethers.

Tools & hybrid working

• A good laptop.

• Flexible starting times (between 8:00 and 9:00).

• Hybrid working: up to two days working from home.

What we're looking for

You have extensive experience in infrastructure engineering and can think both strategically and pragmatically. You’re technically strong, communicate clearly, and help others grow.

We expect:

• Deep experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining complex infrastructure systems

• Experience with large-scale systems (cloud, Kubernetes, multi-data center)

• Strong knowledge of security, monitoring, storage, and networking

• Ability to manage cross-team dependencies and drive large technical changes

• Ownership mindset and a strong presence within the team

• Fluent in English and comfortable collaborating with others

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