Platform Engineer - IHP066

Project overview

For our end client, the Police, Harvey Nash is looking for a Platform Engineer.

Start date: ASAP after completion of screening

Duration of assignment: 23 months

Number of hours per week: 36 hours

Location of work: Nieuwegein

On-site or from home: Monday is a fixed office day

Freelancer possible: NO

Function scale and step: 11 Corporate Operations Specialist C

Education level: HBO-Bachelor

You have an HBO-level diploma (bachelor's) or equivalent through EVC. Or you have at least two years of demonstrable experience at the required work and thinking level. This must be demonstrated with your CV, supplemented with an official job description, vacancy text, or other document clearly stating the required work and thinking level.

Responsibilities

Developing, managing, and optimizing the Kubernetes platform (bare-metal and private cloud).

Developing, managing, and optimizing the OpenShift platform (bare-metal and private cloud).

Setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (including with GitLab, Nexus, ArgoCD).

Applying security principles.

Building and maintaining an observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).

Further automating platform management and deployments.

Advising on and implementing container solutions (Kubernetes, OpenShift).

• Developing, managing, and optimizing the Kubernetes platform (bare-metal and private cloud).

Requirements

HBO work and thinking level

Experience with CKA and/or CKAD

The candidate has at least 3 years of experience as a platform engineer or in a comparable DevOps role.

The candidate has at least 3 years of work experience with building and managing a multi-cluster container platform.

The candidate has at least 3 years of work experience with CI/CD, scripting (Bash, Python), and Git.

The candidate has demonstrable work experience with automation of infrastructure and platform management.

The candidate has demonstrable work experience with optimizing HPC environments.

Wishes

The candidate has work experience with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, or similar).

CKA and/or CKAD certified

The candidate has work experience with applying security principles in platform development. For example: authentication and authorization tooling, service meshes, secret management tools, and PKI.

The candidate has work experience with CI/CD pipelines in combination with, for example, GitLab and Ansible.

The candidate has work experience with applying Terraform for Infrastructure-as-code.

Competencies:

You have a passion for open-source technology and enjoy experimenting with it. Your eagerness to learn and curiosity will be very useful here. You enjoy working in an environment that is constantly changing and like to share your knowledge with colleagues. You find it challenging that your work can sometimes be hectic. Bring on that dynamic! You think creatively and in terms of solutions, enjoy working in a team, and can provide advice within your field.

Furthermore, the following competencies apply to you:

Learning ability

Problem analysis

Persuasiveness

Initiative

Customer focus

Quality focus

Collaboration

Oral and written communication skills

Conditions:

We work hybrid. The fixed office day is on Monday, and on other days you can work from home, but if desired, you can also work more at the office. The assignment is for 36 hours per week. Work weeks of 4x9, 4x8 plus 1x4, and other arrangements are possible. However, we expect everyone to be present at team rituals, such as the daily stand-up, planning, refinement, and retrospectives.

On-call duties (stand-by) outside office hours are part of this assignment (maximum 7 weeks per year).

The police operate in a changing society where diverse perspectives are essential for good police work. Therefore, diversity is of great importance to us. How can we leverage your knowledge and background for this?

A screening type BO+ applies to this assignment. For more information about the screening: Politie selectie - Screening | Kombijdepolitie

We also require the following information:

Earliest possible start date

Availability in hours per week

All-in rate (incl. travel and/or accommodation costs, excl. VAT)

Vacation schedule within the next 3 months

Place of residence

Candidate's date of birth

Candidate's email address

Candidate's phone number

Motivation (max 150 words)

If supplier: contact person's email and phone number

Type of hire:

Availability for potential intakes at the Police, within 5 days of the application closing date.

By responding to this request, the Contractor declares to have taken note of and agrees with the General Hiring Conditions or General Hiring Conditions for Independent Professionals of Harvey Nash and the associated Client Appendix Police. These can be found at www.harveynash.nl/politie

Project details

113 EUR all-in ex VAT

Deadline: 22-10 before 09:00

Intake interviews: 2-11 in Nieuwegein

The Infrastructure Bedrijf of the ICT Service maintains the IT platforms of the National Police. The Cloud and Big Data cluster within the Infrastructure Bedrijf is responsible for the platform for big data and AI. This is a Kubernetes-based private cloud for processing and analyzing data within the police.

The cluster consists of seven Scrum teams, each responsible for products that make up the platform. These products span the entire technology stack, from hardware, through Kubernetes clusters, to SaaS solutions.

In this assignment, you will work within team Space on the new container platform. This is a platform based on Kubernetes. This platform runs in a private cloud environment and on its own hardware (bare metal). You will contribute to the build and development of the platform, and together with your team, you will be responsible for its maintenance. Infrastructure-as-code, automation, and self-service are core concepts that characterize the nature of the work. Additionally, you will support the teams that will migrate to the new container platform.

We are looking for a platform engineer with experience in building and managing on-premise and bare-metal Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters. You will work in a multidisciplinary team and collaborate closely with other development and operations teams to realize a robust and scalable container platform.

• Start: flexible
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Nieuwegein, Utrecht, NL
• Languages: Dutch