Senior Platform & DevOps Engineer

Alliander; Arnhem; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 86,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

IK Budget

Holiday Allowance

End-of-year bonus

Learning & development

NS Business Card

Job summary

Alliander in the Netherlands is hiring a Senior Platform & DevOps Engineer to strengthen our System Operations team. You will modernize CI/CD pipelines, implement GitOps with ArgoCD, and improve developer tooling while maintaining security and compliance across the platform.

Based on a 40-hour week, the role offers a gross monthly salary between €5.416,- and €7.737,- (scale 10), plus an IK budget, holiday allowance, and performance bonuses; you’ll work with AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Platform, DevSecOps, SRE, or Release Engineering in enterprise environments.
• Hands-on Kubernetes, Helm, and GitOps (ArgoCD, App-of-Apps).
• Strong CI/CD background with pipeline-as-code (GitHub Actions).
• Experience with AWS and Terraform; understanding semantic versioning across multi-repo setups.

Responsibilities

• Build and modernize CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and internal CLI tooling for manifest generation and deployment validation.
• Embed image scanning, secrets management, and access policies into pipelines.
• Participate in weekly on-call rotations and translate feature requests into formal RFCs for the platform vendor.
• Scale platform delivery-as-code patterns to external grid operators.
• Maintain security posture and keep platform components up to date.

Skills

Platform/DevOps

SRE/Release Eng

Kubernetes

Helm

GitOps (ArgoCD)

CI/CD (GitHub Actions)

AWS

Terraform

SemVer across repos

Education

No mandatory education

Tools

ArgoCD

App-of-Apps

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Job description

At Alliander, you will work on solutions that keep the Netherlands’ energy infrastructure reliable, sustainable, and ready for the future. In this role, you will collaborate with talented professionals, tackle complex challenges, and make a direct impact on the energy transition.This position is available for 32, 36, or 40 hours per week.

Please note that for this role we are searching for someone who is already living in the Netherlands and is proficient in the use of the English language on C1 level. No use of the Dutch language is required but it is preferred.

The energy transition needs you as a Senior Platform & DevOps Engineer

The department System Operations is creating a smart grid, called Grid-As-A-Service (GaaS), built on Siemens GridScaleX platform. This system is used by Alliander, but will eventually run at external grid operators (DSOs) as well.

Within System Operations you'll join the PMSO (process monitoring System Operations) team. The team's roots are in observability (Elastic, OpenTelemetry, APM). Its scope is now extended to include platform (CI/CD, GitOps, developer tooling, pipeline security), which is where your focus will be.

The organization runs GitOps deployments via ArgoCD (App-of-Apps pattern), Helm, GitHub Actions, Python/Java tooling, AWS, Elastic, Open Telemetry, and Terraform.

The role splits roughly between:

• Building & evolving: modernizing CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and internal CLI tooling for manifest generation and deployment validation

• Security & compliance: embedding image scanning, secrets management, and access policies into pipelines without slowing developers down

• Operational rotation: weekly on-call ("OPSer of the Week") triaging pipeline and cluster issues, and translating developer feature requests into formal RFCs for the platform vendor

• Scaling: helping architect delivery-as-code patterns to extend the platform to external grid operators

• Maintenance Besides development, the above has to be kept up to date, since security is an important topic for Alliander.

Youcomplete our network

Did you know that Alliander is made up of differentbusiness units?Withourlarge group of talented professionals,we develop and manage the energy grid for millions of peopleand businessesin the Netherlands.Everything we do, we do with an eye on the people who rely on us: our customers. And thanks to our talents, we have the utmost confidence in the energy future of the Netherlands. Together with you, we make the energy transition possible, for and with our customers.
You will be workingat our Liander Allianderbusiness unit. Here, you will work on the management, maintenance or construction of our electricity and gas networks. Safety is always our top priority: you ensure safety in your dailyworkand we ensure that you are supported in this.

In this way, we supply energy to households,businessesand our other customers in a safe and reliable manner.

Monitoringour energy networkis only possiblewith the right motivation.We offer an inspiring working environmentthat willenergise you in your day-to-day work.TheSystem Operations departmentis made upof smart and committed professionals.

You energise our network
You combine a pragmatic mindset with a healthy dose of critical thinking. You're able to identify risks, bottlenecks, and scalability challenges before they become real issues, and you proactively design solutions that keep platforms reliable and future-proof. At the same time, you're passionate about improving the developer experience and measure success by enabling engineering teams to deliver software faster, safer, and with less friction. You thrive in environments where not everything is defined yet, enjoy bringing structure to complex challenges, and are comfortable helping shape platform standards and future-state architectures as they evolve.

Working with the latest technologies and innovations.With your talent andstrengths, you can do that at our company.Will youcontribute withyour critical perspective and innovative solutions?Great especially if you add the following:

• 5+ years in Platform, DevSecOps, SRE, or Release Engineering, ideally in a complex/regulated enterprise environment.

• Hands-on Kubernetes, Helm, and GitOps experience (ArgoCD, App-of-Apps).

• Strong CI/CD background — pipeline-as-code (GitHub Actions), dynamic build strategies, developer tooling.

• Working knowledge of AWS (containers, managed DBs, secrets stores, networking, DNS) and Terraform.

• Understanding of semantic versioning across multi-repo, multi-team setups.

Just better arranged for you:

Based on a 40-hour workweek, you can expect:

• A gross monthly salary between €5.416,- and €7.737,- (scale 10) depending on your knowledge and experience
• annually an Individual Choice Budget (IKB) of 18% (full time) or 12.8% (part time) of your gross annual salary, including holiday allowance;
• 24.5 days’ holiday per year, which can be topped up generously from your IKB;
• an end-of-year bonus of 6% of your annual salary in December;
• a Sustainable Employability (SE) budget of €700 per year for your wellbeing and development;
• unlimited learning and development opportunities via relevant courses and training programmes;
• an NS (Dutch Railways) Business Card for sustainable commuting (or a kilometre allowance when using your own transport).

And we obviously offer much more besides! Read more about Alliander and all yourterms of employmenton our website.

More information for you

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