Platform Engineer

EvEryThInG-aS-cOde

De functie

As a Platform Engineer, you have the opportunity to leverage your strong technical skills in the areas of platform management, automation, and scripting. And how you approach this? That's up to you. We trust in your ability to distinguish between main and side issues and to establish connections. Thanks to your knowledge and experience, you add value by:

• Designing, implementing, and maintaining our services, where we prioritize reliability, scalability, and security immensely;
• Optimizing our tech stack;
• Assisting customers with their inquiries;
• Creating a platform that enables developers to collaborate easily;
• Enhancing the developer experience by removing bottlenecks;
• Handling standby services.

Within Enabling Technology, we build self-service developer platforms for everyone at our company. This ensures a simplified and automated landscape that is always operational, allowing developers to focus on creating value!

The Automation & Development Tooling team is a self-organizing DevOps team that utilizes a mix of Scrum & Kanban in executing tasks. The team comprises 5 Platform Engineers, a Product Owner, and a Scrum Master. We prioritize delivering value and aim to avoid spending the entire day writing stories. There's a strong culture of collaboration within the team, with ample space for providing feedback.

Over het bedrijf

This is the place to be for travel, reside and work. By means of data and technology, we optimize the living and working climate in all these areas and ensure smarter and more efficient operations. We develop new products and services based on the wishes and needs of our customers, predict passenger flows and test digital solutions to reduce queues and other pain points in the process. With smart feedback from sensor technology, we even make data from toilets and chairs insightful and usable.

Every year, over 70 million travelers are our compass. Their experiences, needs, and frustrations help us decide where and how we can use digital solutions to make the traveler's journey a happier one. Whether it's a personal itinerary in the app or a transfer kiosk that caters to travelers with a short and stressful connection: with relevant information at the right time and place, we aim to ease travelers' minds as much as possible. In multidisciplinary agile teams, we go the extra mile to continuously develop our website, app, Self Service Units and new concepts. We do so, working closely together with other business areas. 

Aanbod

You will be employed by YER and seconded to our client. We offer:

• Good employee benefits
• Challenging assignments
• Excellent guidance from your consultant and YER's back office
• Development opportunities, including the YER Talent Development Programme with a personal coach
• Intensive support for international candidates (including Dutch lessons, tax-return and accommodation assistance)
• Cooperative and results and relationship-driven
• Friendly atmosphere and open culture
• Community/network with other technology professionals from a variety of multinationals
• Events and master classes with interesting speakers and attractive companies

Jouw profiel

You've got this

We connect your world. With the best people, we ensure travel is safe and responsible. You contribute to this by working with a certain calmness, order, and discipline. You're also the talent that takes the initiative to implement improvements. Furthermore, for this role, you have:

• Demonstrable experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform;
• Experience with Python, Powershell, and/or Ansible;
• A self-starter mentality and the ability to quickly grasp concepts;
• It's a plus if you also have experience with Azure DevOps and/or Ansible Automation Platform.