Cloud Edge Engineer

At Lely, we are building a new generation of digital infrastructure for dairy farmers. At the center of this is the Lely Hub: a platform that brings Kubernetes to the edge on the farm and brings together data, devices, and digital services to support the daily operations of modern farms. The global rollout is just getting started, with the ambition to eventually deploy this infrastructure to more than 25,000 farms worldwide.

The Lely Hub forms the digital heart of the farm. On the one hand, the platform ensures a reliable and secure on-site IT environment. On the other hand, it enables various software teams within Lely to run their applications locally on the farm.

As a Cloud Edge Engineer, you play an important role in building and improving this platform. Together with other engineers, you develop an environment in which Lely applications can run securely, scalably, and reliably on the Lely Hub.

You will work on topics such as container orchestration, deployment pipelines, and observability. With this, you ensure that software remains stable and well-managed on thousands of farms worldwide.

Your main responsibilities

• Develop and improve the Edge platform of the Lely Hub, on which applications from different Lely development teams run
• Build and maintain Helm charts for applications running on our Edge-based Kubernetes environment
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines to roll out specific software versions in a controlled manner to thousands of farms
• Set up and enhance observability and monitoring, ensuring we maintain insight into how the Lely Hub performs at customer locations
• Collaborate with various development teams to ensure their applications run safely and reliably on the Edge platform
• Develop and integrate tooling that supports the platform, partly off-the-shelf and partly developed in-house

What is your experience?

You are an engineer who gets energy from building platforms and infrastructure at scale. You enjoy collaborating with other teams and find it interesting to develop technology that is used directly in practice.

In addition, you largely recognize yourself in the following:

• Approximately 5 years of relevant experience as a platform, cloud, or infrastructure engineer
• Experience with Linux, containers, and Kubernetes environments
• Knowledge of Helm and managing container-based applications
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, for example with GitLab
• A structured way of working and an interest in reliable and secure platform architectures
• Experience with technologies such as Talos Linux, Omni, Python, KubeVirt, Cilium, Grafana stack, ArgoCD, or Multus is a plus
• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation outside office hours (on average one evening per week and one weekend every five weeks), supporting internal engineering teams that run applications on the platform.

What you can expect from us

Working at Lely means contributing to sustainable progress within one of the most innovative organizations in the Netherlands. You help make the agricultural sector more futureproof, and we ensure you have the space, resources, and support to do so.

• An international work environment that values collaboration, initiative, and diverse perspectives.
• A culture that encourages learning, experimentation, and ownership of ideas.
• Excellent employment conditions, including up to 8 weeks of vacation per year and a strong pension scheme.
• Full ownership of your own development, with access to a wide range of courses through the Lely Academy.

About Lely

Lely is committed to a sustainable, profitable, and enjoyable future in agriculture. Driven by the challenges faced by farmers and the needs of cows, we develop high-quality robots and data systems that improve animal welfare, flexibility, and productivity on dairy farms. Our mission is to support sustainable food production.