We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer with at least 5 years of experience to join our team. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in Linux administration, self-managed Kubernetes, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and production platform reliability. You will be responsible for designing, building, and owning our new stateless application platform on self-managed Kubernetes running on our own Linux servers. You will collaborate with developers and product owners to containerize existing services, move application state into proper backing services, and make deployments, scaling, and recovery routine for our AI-driven products serving customers in the Netherlands and the UK.

Responsibilities:

Platform build: Design and run highly available Kubernetes clusters on our own Linux servers, including HA control planes, etcd backups, CNI, bare-metal load balancing, ingress, TLS, persistent storage, and dev/test/acceptance/production environments.
Lifecycle and IaC: Manage node provisioning, OS and Kubernetes upgrades, certificate rotation and capacity planning. Ensure every environment can be rebuilt from Git (Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible).
Migration: Containerise existing services with developers, remove local state, and migrate product by product with rollback plans.
Delivery: CI/CD with GitOps (Argo CD or Flux) and Helm/Kustomize; rolling, blue-green or canary releases with automatic rollback.
Reliability: Implement monitoring, logging, tracing and alerting with SLOs; autoscaling for document and LLM processing peaks; backups, DR and incident response.
Security: Implement RBAC, network policies, image scanning, secret management and patching; protect customer documents in line with GDPR.
Enablement: Document the platform, coach developers on containers and Kubernetes, and maintain visibility into infrastructure costs.

Technical Skills:

Deep Linux administration (Ubuntu/Debian or RHEL) including networking, storage, hardening and troubleshooting.
Experience building and running self-managed production Kubernetes clusters (kubeadm, RKE2, k3s or Talos): HA, upgrades, etcd backup/restore.
Knowledge of Docker/OCI images, registries and image security.
Terraform/OpenTofu or Ansible in real use.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps or Jenkins).
Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, central logging and alerting.
Knowledge of secrets management, RBAC, TLS, network policies.
Proficiency in Bash plus Python or Go.

Additional Skills:

Bare-metal load balancing and storage (MetalLB, kube-vip, Longhorn, Rook/Ceph).
GitOps with Argo CD or Flux; Helm chart authoring.
Containerising legacy apps and removing local state.
PostgreSQL/SQL Server, Redis, RabbitMQ/Kafka, S3-compatible storage (MinIO)
OpenTelemetry tracing, SLO design.
Trivy, Kyverno/OPA policy engines.
.NET and/or Python services; CKA or CKS.

Nice to Have:

Experience with service meshes (Istio, Linkerd) and operators
Familiarity with progressive delivery tools (Argo Rollouts, Flagger)
Experience with a major cloud platform for backups or burst capacity
Experience running GPU or LLM inference workloads on Kubernetes
Experience working in ISO 27001 environments
Linux certifications (LFCS, RHCSA)

Experience & Soft Skills:

Senior profile (around 5+ years in ops/DevOps) who has taken real applications from servers or VMs to Kubernetes in production and can explain what broke and how it was fixed.
Has owned on-call and incidents for a production platform with paying customers, ideally as the main platform engineer in a product company.
Should be able to demonstrate results through measurable outcomes: deployment frequency, uptime, recovery time, cost reduction, services migrated. B2B SaaS, API/EDI/SFTP integrations or document processing is a plus.
Soft skills: ownership of decisions, pragmatism over fashionable tools, coaching mindset, clear written English, and calm, structured incident handling.

What We Offier:

Ownership of the platform from the ground up
The opportunity to work on real AI products serving customers in the Dutch and UK logistics and customs market
An international team across the Netherlands and India
Relocation support for candidates moving to Zirakpur.

Pay: ₹700,000.00 - ₹1,100,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Food provided
Internet reimbursement
Provident Fund

Work Location: In person