Platform engineer

Job description

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Job description
Due to current geopolitical developments, years of budget cuts, and the rapidly increasing digitalization, the Defence is facing great challenges. To meet these challenges, it is essential to scale up and accelerate the creation of value for the end-user. This also applies to the COC2 and I&V department, where innovation is necessary to meet the increasing forms of threats. Outdated processes and ways of working need to be revised and make way for new forms of collaboration and innovative solutions. This requires pioneer work: shifting gears to a higher speed in a system that has long had too little room to innovate. Do you feel drawn to the societal component of Defence, the complexity of the playing field, and the opportunity to realize innovation and create value with intrinsically motivated colleagues? And do you get energy from translating ideas into workable IT solutions that really matter? Then read on quickly! As a Platform Engineer within the subdomain Grens & Migratie, you are responsible for, among other things:

• managing and expanding development and test environments,
• rolling out new software versions to internal systems.

You manage configuration files and tooling such as Argo, Git, and Helm, and ensure a well-organized CI/CD process, including release management and the corresponding templates. Additionally, you guide migrations to new development environments, function as a sparring partner for the System Architect on technical issues, and ensure infrastructure technology further by setting up monitoring dashboards. Finally, you have a strong focus on automating processes, improving the reliability of systems, which contributes to a stable foundation for the various development teams as part of the Agile Release Train.

Background job

As a Platform Engineer, you will be working within COMMIT (Commando Materieel & IT). Within COMMIT, the JIVC (Joint Informatievoorziening Commando) is the IT company of Defence. Your job will be shaped within the JIVC by subdomain Grens & Migratie. This subdomain works primarily on the value chains of the Koninklijke Marachaussee (KMar). Within subdomain Grens & Migratie, multiple internal development teams are building the necessary IT functionality for various European regulations and the IT systems used at the border. These work activities are combined as much as possible based on the SAFe framework, combined with the Agile mindset. You are part of a multidisciplinary Scrum team and work intensively with your direct colleagues, both within and outside the team. You work proactively on knowledge sharing and by mapping and recording your work, you contribute to the continuity of the department.

• You have experience designing and developing scalable platform architecture, for example, Kubernetes, Docker, cloud-native solutions,
• You support DevSecOps and stimulate shift-left in security and testing.
• You have at least an HBO work and thinking level.
• You have experience designing technical architecture for cloud-native platforms, container clusters, and CI/CD structures.
• You build the underlying platform components (for example, Kubernetes clusters, ArgoCD GitOps) and ensure that everything integrates and is scalable.
• Candidate has at least 3 years of experience in similar functions (3 years)
• Candidate has at least 3 years of experience within a large complex government organization (3 years)
• Candidate has 3 years of hands-on experience setting up and securing cloud (development) environments (3 years)
• You implement releases and CI/CD pipelines, automate infrastructure changes, and support development teams in deployment via GitOps (for example, ArgoCD)

• The candidate has experience migrating development environments.
• Think about self-service and standardization.
• Candidate coaches developers and other engineers in using the platform (for example, via onboarding, documentation, tech talks)
• Candidate helps improve processes: faster releases, less manual work, higher DevEx.