Senior Platform & DevEx Engineer: Scale CI/CD & Security

Alliander; Arnhem; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited learning & development

16% IK, 18% for full-time? (IKB)

End-of-year bonus 6%

Sustainable Employability budget

NS Business Card for commuting

Holiday entitlement 24.5 days

Job summary

Alliander is seeking a Senior Platform & Developer Experience Engineer in the Netherlands to drive platform architecture, secure DevSecOps practices, and scale CI/CD workflows for Grid-As-A-Service deployments. You will work within the PMSO team to enhance tooling, support multi-DSO observability, and guide platform standards across the organization.

Your role emphasizes reducing friction for developers, building scalable automation, and shaping future state architectures while operating in a

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevSecOps, SRE, Release Engineering, or a similar role within a complex enterprise, critical infrastructure, or regulated environment.
• Strong expertise in Kubernetes, GitOps, and cloud-native platforms, with hands-on experience in Helm, ArgoCD, AWS, Terraform, and deployment patterns such as App-of-Apps.
• Proven experience designing, modernizing, and operating CI/CD ecosystems, including pipeline-as-code (e.g. GitHub Actions), release management, semantic versioning, automation, and self-service developer platforms.
• Solid software engineering and automation skills, including Python and/or Java, Infrastructure as Code, API integrations, security automation, secret management, image scanning, and application troubleshooting.
• Strong DevOps mindset focused on security, reliability, and developer experience, with experience in DevSecOps, observability, monitoring, and cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Platform Architecture & Delivery: Enhance and scale CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows (ArgoCD), and internal developer tooling. Build automation in Python and Java to streamline deployments, validation, and dependency management.
• DevSecOps & Security: Integrate security controls such as image scanning, secret management, access policies, and automated validation directly into developer workflows.
• Infrastructure & Operations: Support platform operations and incident triage, resolve pipeline bottlenecks, and translate developer requirements into clear RFCs for platform vendors.
• Multi-DSO & Observability: Contribute to API-driven delivery solutions for external DSOs and ensure platforms provide the telemetry and monitoring capabilities needed for reliable operations.

Skills

Platform Engineering

DevSecOps

Observability

Collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

Helm

AWS

Terraform

App-of-Apps

GitHub Actions

Python

Java

Job description

Alliander is seeking a Senior Platform & Developer Experience Engineer in the Netherlands to drive platform architecture, secure DevSecOps practices, and scale CI/CD workflows for Grid-As-A-Service deployments. You will work within the PMSO team to enhance tooling, support multi-DSO observability, and guide platform standards across the organization.

Your role emphasizes reducing friction for developers, building scalable automation, and shaping future state architectures while operating in a