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Senior Platform Engineer - OpenShift & Observability
Swift · Leiden, ZH, Netherlands
Leiden, ZH, NetherlandsHybrid
Remuneration
Not specified
Location
Leiden, ZH, Netherlands
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Senior Platform Engineer role is centered on building and maintaining a modern OpenShift platform to ensure high availability and reliability for critical applications. Responsibilities include designing observability capabilities, developing monitoring solutions with Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK), and driving automation through Infrastructure as Code and GitOps practices.
Qualifications
- Experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineer, or Senior DevOps Engineer.
- Hands-on expertise with OpenShift and/or Kubernetes.
- Experience with observability solutions, including logging and monitoring.
- Experience managing SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets.
- Understanding of production operations and reliability engineering principles.
- Passion for automation and solving technical challenges.
Responsibilities
- Shape and operate the enterprise OpenShift platform for high availability and resilience.
- Lead design and implementation of observability capabilities.
- Establish and evolve SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs for reliability improvements.
- Develop and maintain monitoring and logging solutions using ELK.
- Partner with application teams for workload onboarding and best practices.
- Drive incident management and post-incident learning.
- Design and enhance platform services for customer experience and efficiency.
- Operate and improve OpenShift clusters, including upgrades and compliance.
- Collaborate across platform engineering and application onboarding squads.
- Eliminate operational toil through automation and self-service.
- Automate processes using Infrastructure as Code and GitOps.
- Participate in on-call rotation for service reliability.
Skills
AnsibleArgo CDElasticsearchKibanaKubernetesLogstashOpenShiftPythonTerraform
Relocation
No