Sovereign Infra Engineer (Edge & Cloud)

Praetori; Netherlands; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity

Performance bonus

Job summary

Praetori in Haarlem, the Netherlands, is seeking a Founding Infrastructure Engineer to build and operate its platform across sovereign cloud, on-premise, and edge environments. You’ll own deployment topologies, CI/CD, security, and observability to ensure reliability in constrained environments.

The role requires hands-on Kubernetes, IaC, and a security-first mindset, with responsibility from design to field deployment, collaborating with forward deployed engineers.

Qualifications

• You can point to production systems you have run, and the reliability and security bar you held them to.
• Deep, hands-on experience running Kubernetes and containerised workloads in production.
• Strong command of infrastructure as code and modern CI/CD. You automate by default.
• Real experience across more than one environment: cloud plus on-premise or edge.
• A security-first mindset and practical experience hardening systems and pipelines.
• Fluency with observability and the instinct to design for failure from the start.
• High ownership. You treat production as sacred. Fluent English.

Responsibilities

• 01 Design and operate Kubernetes deployments across sovereign cloud, on-premise and edge environments.
• 02 Build repeatable, auditable infrastructure as code so any environment can be reproduced with confidence.
• 03 Own CI/CD that lets a small team ship frequently and safely, with fast rollback.
• 04 Engineer for disconnected, air-gapped and bandwidth-constrained edges, not just the cloud path.
• 05 Make security a property of the platform: hardening, secrets, supply-chain integrity, least privilege, auditability.
• 06 Build observability that gives real operational insight, and act on what it shows.
• 07 Define and defend reliability targets. Design for failure and reduce toil through automation.
• 08 Partner with forward deployed engineers to deploy into customer environments and resolve issues in the field.

Skills

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Security

Observability

Ownership

Job description

Praetori in Haarlem, the Netherlands, is seeking a Founding Infrastructure Engineer to build and operate its platform across sovereign cloud, on-premise, and edge environments. You’ll own deployment topologies, CI/CD, security, and observability to ensure reliability in constrained environments.

The role requires hands-on Kubernetes, IaC, and a security-first mindset, with responsibility from design to field deployment, collaborating with forward deployed engineers.