Junior Platform Engineer

Word onderdeel van het NN Platform Engineering Team

Are you passionate about cutting-edge technology and eager to make a real impact? At NN, we're on a mission to become a socially responsible tech company that delivers digital products our customers love. We're looking for a Junior Platform Engineer to join our dynamic team and help us achieve this goal.

As a Platform Engineer on EKS, you will be responsible for provisioning, maintaining and improving our Kubernetes platform that currently contains over 65 clusters and hosts multiple production workloads, including mission-critical ones.

With a competitive salary, excellent benefits, and opportunities for growth, this is your chance to be part of something big. If you're ready to take on new challenges and make a difference, we want to hear from you!

What you are going to do

The NN Container Platform consists of multiple distinct platforms built on top of Amazon EKS, Amazon EKS Hybrid nodes and 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 AWS. This should enable NN’s engineers to focus on developing their microservices on top of the platform.

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 AWS, 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 the 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 €3,517 to €5,025 euro (based on 36 hours) 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

Who you are

You are a beacon of positivity and energy, inspiring everyone around you. Your innovative mindset means you're always brimming with new ideas, seeing possibilities, and learning from every situation. You recognize yourself in several of the following skills and experiences:

• 1 to 2 years of experience working with Amazon EKS
• Solid AWS cloud knowledge and experience, including Networking, PaaS, IaaS, and IAM
• Proficiency in GitOps deployment management
• Skilled in writing TypeScript code
• Preferably, some experience with popular CNCF technologies such as ArgoCD, Istio, Cilium, and Knative
• CKA or CKAD certified is a plus
• Ability to think about system and platform designs at scale

Moreover, you possess the following soft skills:

• Ability to enable and train our end users to develop and deploy microservices on the platform while following best practices
• Strong communication skills (in English), along with excellent analytical and collaboration abilities

Who you will work with

You will be part of the EKS 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.

Bij NN geloven we dat onze kracht ligt in het omarmen van de volledige diversiteit van de mensheid. We erkennen en waarderen ieders uniciteit en bijdrage, wat ons in staat stelt om te groeien: als individu, als team en als organisatie.

Diversiteit, Gelijkheid en Inclusie zijn verankerd in onze cultuur, die wordt geleid door onze kernwaarden: care, clear en commit. Deze waarden helpen ons om een werkomgeving te creëren waarin iedereen zich welkom, gerespecteerd en trots voelt om deel van uit te maken.

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