Senior Platform Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 16, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 6, 2026.
Join Tiqets, a leading online ticketing platform for cultural experiences. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the availability, reliability, and performance of our production systems. You will also drive security initiatives, provide visibility into system health, and enhance the developer experience. Enjoy a competitive salary, a vibrant work environment in Amsterdam, and numerous benefits including a monthly internet allowance and a 20% employee discount for exploring museums worldwide.
Missions
- Zorg ervoor dat productieomgevingen beschikbaar, schaalbaar, performant en operationeel zijn, en pleit voor SRE-principes en engineering excellence.
- Zorg ervoor dat infrastructuur en tooling voldoen aan de beveiligingsnormen, en leid beveiligingsinitiatieven en best practices.
- Bied zichtbaarheid in de systeemgezondheid en prestaties, en stel effectieve foutopsporing, waarschuwing en incidentrespons in staat.
Profil recherché
- Proficiency with configuration management and packaging tools such as Helm- Strong background and 5+ years of experience in building and operating production systems at scale, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and performance
- Knowledge of modern deployment practices, including GitOps workflows and tools such as Argo CD and CI/CD systems like GitLab CI
- Proficiency in container orchestration and hands-on experience designing, operating, and scaling Kubernetes clusters in production environments
- Living in the Netherlands
- Familiarity with incident management processes, using tools like PagerDuty, and are comfortable supporting triaging and resolving production incidents
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform, and comfortable designing reusable and maintainable infrastructure modules
- Deep experience with cloud infrastructure in AWS, including a strong understanding of networking concepts (VPCs, routing, load balancing, DNS), and the ability to design secure and resilient systems. Understanding of cost efficiency and trade-offs between performance, reliability, and cost
- Experience building and operating observability systems, and understanding of metrics, logging, and tracing (experience with Datadog and Sentry is a plus)
- Experience designing and building shared infrastructure or internal platforms used by other engineering teams
- Strong collaborative approach: experience working closely with other engineering teams to co-create solutions, gather feedback, and drive adoption of platform tools and practices
- Product-oriented mindset: ability to prioritise work based on business impact, make pragmatic trade-offs, and focus on delivering value
- Understanding of platform engineering principles, such as enabling teams through self-service, creating “golden paths”, and driving standardisation