Senior Platform Automation Engineer - Cloud & DevOps

LessonUp; Den Haag; Hybrid; EUR 56,000 - 67,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Office in The Hague with occasional Wf

Competitive salary €5,000–€6,000/mo

32/36/40 hour work week

Laptop

NS business card or €0,25 per km

Learning budget

Mental health support via OpenUp

Retirement savings

Free lunch and snacks

Team outings and events

Job summary

LessonUp in The Hague is seeking a Senior Platform Automation Engineer to own our cloud infrastructure and boost developer velocity. Your focus is platform engineering, DevOps, and SRE, ensuring reliable, scalable production systems on GCP.

You will design per-PR ephemeral environments, run E2E tests in CI, and streamline CI/CD to shorten feedback loops. You will enable engineers with tooling and APIs while maintaining security and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Platform/DevOps/SRE roles with focus on tooling and production infra.
• Strong GCP and IaC skills; Terraform experience preferred.
• Experience with CI/CD, ephemeral per-PR environments, and test wiring.
• Fluent in English; NL residency is required.

Responsibilities

• Own Production Infrastructure & GCP Roadmap: manage cloud resources and scale, secure, cost-effective production systems.
• Provide Per-PR Ephemeral Environments: architect and manage fully functional app instances per pull request.
• Run E2E Tests Frequently and Reliably: operate CI testing frameworks and reduce flakiness.
• Optimise CI/CD & Developer Workflows: streamline pipelines and release mechanisms.
• Enable the Engineering Team: supply APIs, data prep tools, and CI/CD integrations for tests.

Skills

Platform ownership

DevOps

SRE

Automation tooling

Tools

GCP

Terraform

Playwright

Jest

Cucumber

Storybook

Job description

LessonUp in The Hague is seeking a Senior Platform Automation Engineer to own our cloud infrastructure and boost developer velocity. Your focus is platform engineering, DevOps, and SRE, ensuring reliable, scalable production systems on GCP.

You will design per-PR ephemeral environments, run E2E tests in CI, and streamline CI/CD to shorten feedback loops. You will enable engineers with tooling and APIs while maintaining security and cost efficiency.