Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Belsimpel; Groningen; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Pension plan

25 vacation days

Job summary

Belsimpel in Groningen seeks a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to own and evolve our private cloud stack. You’ll lead design, reliability, and automation across Kubernetes-based platforms, Ceph storage, and GitOps workflows.

You’ll collaborate with product and engineering teams, drive large-scale migrations, improve observability, and help colleagues grow, with a hybrid work policy and strong focus on security and efficiency.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in infrastructure engineering and cloud platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, storage, networking and security.
• Experience with GitOps, automation, and monitoring at scale.

Responsibilities

• Designing, implementing and maintaining scalable infrastructure.
• Define strategy for observability, security and automation.
• Drive large migrations and platform changes across teams.
• Mentor colleagues and conduct technical reviews.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

English proficiency

Education

HBO/WO level

Tools

Kubernetes

Ceph

Helm

NGINX

HAProxy

Terraform

Ansible

Flux

Prometheus

Loki

Grafana

Vault

Job description

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

Fulltime | 32 - 40 h/w | hbo/wo level | Headquarters Groningen

• You are able to work at the office in Groningen, we have a remote working policy of a maximum of 2 days per week.
• Fully self-managed, across 3 colocations in the Groningen region

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

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?

Are you joining our team? Then we’ll not only make sure you have a great job, but also attractive employment benefits.

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