Kubernetes Platform Engineer on Azure

What are you looking for?

We are looking for a skilled Kubernetes Platform Engineer to join our team at NN and help us achieve our goal of becoming a socially responsible tech company that delivers digital products our customers love.

What you are going to do

As a Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for provisioning, maintaining and improving our Kubernetes platform that currently contains over 50 clusters and hosts multiple production workloads, including mission-critical ones.

The NN Container Platform consists of two distinct platforms, one built on top of Amazon EKS and the other on Azure AKS. It is our mission to empower NN’s engineers by offering them a highly scalable, managed Cloud-Native platform that integrates the best fitting technologies, all according to NN security and compliancy standards. It is your job to make sure that compute resources are provisioned, policy management is taken care of, security integrations are done, operational metrics and dashboards are available, and more to deliver an enterprise grade Kubernetes platform in Azure. This should enable NN’s engineers to focus on developing their microservices on top of the platform.

The current version of the platform is built as a software product. This means that we follow lean and agile methodologies to ship features as with a software project. We gradually release software in alpha and beta phases and gather feedback from users during these early stages. Every change is built locally and integrated from the version control system through a pull request. Additionally, we use one language for everything in the platform, which is TypeScript.

Another important design principle is simplicity. We aim to optimize the work of the team, so that it becomes more fun to deliver our environment due to reduced complexity and ease of new feature development. Simplification leads to more agility to respond to our users’ demands. We are significantly shifting towards more cloud native services, eliminating overhead and also introducing the use Pulumi to replace existing Infrastructure as Code implementations with more future-proof technologies.

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Your responsibilities

• You enable the business to focus on where it matters and adds value; developing microservices
• You deliver one of NN’s most advanced hosting solutions based on Kubernetes on Azure, used by DevOps teams to host their containerized microservices
• You develop rock-solid add-ons within our Kubernetes platform using GitOps processes and tools (based on projects from the CNCF ecosystem), that make a short time to market possible and help our developers deliver secure, cost efficient and stable services
• You are operationally responsible for the smooth sailing of the platform
• By applying smart design principles, you help reduce the price per container, which minimizes cost footprint

What we offer you

NN invests in an inclusive, inspiring work environment and in skills and competences for the future. We match this with employee benefits that are in line with what is needed today and in the future. This way, we offer our employees the opportunity to get the best out of themselves. We offer you:

• Salary between €3,973 and €5,675 depending on your knowledge and experience
• 13th month and holiday allowance are paid with your monthly salary
• 27 vacation days for a 5-day working week and one Diversity Day
• A modern pension administered by BeFrank
• Plenty of training and learning opportunities
• NS Business Card 2nd class, which gives you unlimited travel, also privately. Do you prefer to travel with your own transport? Then you can declare the kilometers travelled
• Allowances for setting up your home office and for internet use

It is important to us that you continue to develop yourself. We give you the space and the confidence to grow in your career as well as a person. We help you with:

• Plenty of training and learning opportunities in our Learning & Development Centre
• A large (international) network of colleagues who are keen to share their knowledge with you
• The autonomy to steer your own development path

Who you are

You bring a positive mindset and energy, which makes you an inspiration to work with. You always have new ideas, you see possibilities and learn from situations. Furthermore, you recognize yourself in (multiple) of the following skills and experiences:

• Approximately 3-4 years of experience with Kubernetes, particularly on AKS
• Solid Azure cloud knowledge and experience (Networking, PaaS, IaaS, IAM, security, observability)
• Experience with GitOps deployment management
• Skilled in writing TypeScript code
• Strong communication (at least English), analytical and collaboration skills

Who you will work with

You will be part of the AKS Platform Team, which is part of NN's Engineering Experience & Platforms domain. In this environment, you will also find the CI/CD and Internal Developer Platform teams as your direct colleagues. This domain has a scale-up type of culture and consists of a group of energetic and empowered engineers and product teams. We strive to make Cloud-Native technology successful across the entire company (including our international units). We really value our culture and nourish it at every opportunity. Team events are regularly organized. Last year we did airsofting, go-karting, game days, had a Christmas event and did several dinners with the teams.

"You Matter" is our brand promise. You see this in our employee benefits, communication and at the office.
Jarmo Fernhout, Recruiter