Senior Platform Engineer - AWS, Kubernetes & SRE

Tiqets International; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Energetic, international work env

Office in center of Amsterdam

Tiqets learning academy

Mental health support

Lunch buffet provided

Gym & activities

Company events

20% museum discounts

Pension contribution

Travel compensation

Job summary

Tiqets is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to help scale our infrastructure for a world‑class cultural ticketing platform. You’ll help ensure availability, reliability and performance across apps, website, and API while enabling fast shipping for developers.

Join an international team, work in a hybrid setup 2–3 days per week at our Amsterdam HQ, and contribute to security, observability, and resilience initiatives for scalable growth.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production systems at scale with focus on reliability.
• Strong AWS cloud infrastructure knowledge including VPCs, routing, load balancing, and DNS.
• Proficiency with container orchestration and production Kubernetes clusters.
• Infrastructure as Code experience, especially Terraform, and reusable modules.
• Configuration management and packaging with Helm; familiar with GitOps workflows.

Responsibilities

• Maintain scalable, reliable production systems and APIs for the platform.
• Design and implement IaC and reusable infrastructure modules for the ecosystem.
• Drive observability with metrics, logging, and tracing; enable effective debugging and incident response.
• Lead security, resilience, and disaster recovery initiatives across services.
• Improve developer experience with self‑serve tooling and streamlined deployments.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Cloud architecture

DevOps practices

Incident management

Collaboration

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Helm

GitLab CI

Argo CD

Datadog

Sentry

PagerDuty

Job description

Tiqets is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to help scale our infrastructure for a world‑class cultural ticketing platform. You’ll help ensure availability, reliability and performance across apps, website, and API while enabling fast shipping for developers.

Join an international team, work in a hybrid setup 2–3 days per week at our Amsterdam HQ, and contribute to security, observability, and resilience initiatives for scalable growth.