Platform Engineer

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RTL’s Platform Engineer should possess the following skills and experience:

• Some experience with one or more cloud service providers such as Azure, AWS, GCP, or a similar system.

• Familiarity with the cloud-native ecosystem, containers, Kubernetes, etc.

• Basic proficiency in building and deploying with some of the technologies:
  Go, Helm, Terraform, and bash scripting, with a desire to deepen these skills.

• A foundational understanding of cloud security systems, techniques, and tools, with a willingness to learn more.

• Focus on ensuring efficiency, stability, observability and reliability in system operations.

• Ability to work collaboratively with the team and independently on assigned tasks.

• Enthusiasm for learning new technologies and applying them to improve infrastructure.

If you are a motivated platform engineer with a solid technical foundation and a desire to grow, we encourage you to apply for this opportunity n us in Team Cloud Platform to collaborate and learn from 6 other platform and SRE engineers.

As a Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for the following tasks:

• Assisting in building and supporting infrastructure for scalable applications that handle high levels of traffic.

• Collaborating with the team to support our culture of "you build it, you monitor, run, and secure it" by providing tools and support.

• Utilizing external services when needed to find effective solutions.

• Supporting and assisting with technical requests from developers teams as required.

• Contributing to the building and deployment of development environments using skills such as Go, Terraform, Helm, and bash scripting

• Developing a growing understanding of security systems, techniques, and tools.

• Participating in scaling and performance optimization efforts by helping to identify potential growth areas and suggesting solutions.

• Sharing your knowledge/experience/interests with others - be it through pairing, a company passion talk or speaking externally.

• Working with our technical stack:
  Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, Argo Rollouts, Azure, Grafana Stack, NGINX, Kong, Akamai

RTL started in 1989 as the first commercial broadcaster in the Netherlands. Our mission has not changed since then: we want to reach and inspire everyone in the Netherlands with essential stories that touch the heart and mind. RTL has five television channels (RTL 4, RTL 5, RTL 7, RTL 8 and RTL Z), streaming platform Videoland, three digital theme channels (RTL Lounge, RTL Crime, RTL Telekids), sales organization Ad Alliance and the platforms RTL.nl

and RTL Weer / Buienradar. RTL Nieuws, Editie NL and RTL Z bring you 24/7 the latest news, their own journalistic research and interpretation via the broadcasts, website, app and socials.

Salary range: €4,500 – €7,000 per month, depending on experience