Kubernetes Platform Engineer on AWS

Role purpose: Build, operate, and continuously improve a secure, scalable Kubernetes platform on AWS to enable reliable application delivery and high developer productivity.

Core responsibilities

Design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters on AWS (e.g., EKS), including networking, node groups, and cluster upgrades.
Implement Infrastructure as Code to provision and standardize cloud and platform resources.
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows for containerized applications.
Improve platform reliability through monitoring, alerting, logging, and incident response practices.
Harden platform security: IAM, secrets management, image scanning, policy enforcement, and least-privilege access.
Optimize performance and cost across compute, storage, and networking; support capacity planning.
Partner with engineering teams to define platform standards, documentation, and self-service capabilities.

Required skills

Kubernetes: cluster operations, RBAC, networking, ingress, autoscaling, and troubleshooting.
AWS: EKS, VPC, IAM, EC2, ALB/NLB, CloudWatch, and security best practices.
Containers: Docker, image lifecycle, registries, and runtime fundamentals.
IaC: Terraform and/or CloudFormation; configuration management fundamentals.
CI/CD: Git-based workflows; pipeline tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins).
Observability: metrics, logs, traces; tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK/OpenSearch.
Scripting: Bash and/or Python; strong Linux administration.

We are looking for a 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 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 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.

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 AWS CDK and GitOps to replace existing Infrastructure as Code implementations with more future-proof technologies.

Does this trigger your interests? Don’t hesitate and join our Cloud-Native containership!

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 €4,324 and €5,765 based on 40 hours per week 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 three Diversity Days
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 (engineering) colleagues who are keen to share their knowledge with you
The autonomy to steer your own development path

Who you are

You like to engage with your team and come to solutions through collaboration. 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 4 years of experience with Kubernetes, particularly on EKS
AWS cloud knowledge and experience (Networking, PaaS, IaaS, IAM)
Experience with GitOps deployment management
Experience with AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)
Skilled in writing TypeScript code
Preferably some experience with popular CNCF technologies (e.g. ArgoCD, Crossplane, Kyverno, Grafana, etc.)
Basic experience in Linux and CI/CD
Ability to think about system and platform designs at scale
Being CKA or CKAD certified is a big plus

And 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 (at least English), analytical and collaboration skills

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.

Any questions?

If you have any questions about the job, you can reach out via email to Jarmo Fernhout Principal Talent Acquisition Specialist via jarmo.fernhout@nn-group.com.

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.

Be you. You have our support.