platform engineer for cultural experiences

Tiqets is an award-winning technology scale-up headquartered in the Netherlands. Its platform helps travellers discover and book tickets to cultural experiences such as museums, zoos, and theme parks in one place.

• Ensure production systems are available, scalable, performant, and operate as expected;
• Advocate for SRE principles and engineering excellence;
• Ensure infrastructure and tooling meet security standards;
• Drive security initiatives and best practices;
• Design and implement disaster recovery and resilience strategies;
• Provide visibility into system health and performance across teams;
• Enable effective debugging, alerting, and incident response;
• Provide infrastructure and self-serve tooling for efficient developer workflows.

• 5+ Years of experience building and operating production systems at scale;
• Strong focus on reliability, scalability, and performance;
• Deep experience with AWS cloud infrastructure;
• Strong understanding of networking concepts, including VPCs, routing, load balancing, and DNS;
• Ability to design secure and resilient systems;
• Understanding of cost efficiency and trade-offs between performance, reliability, and cost;
• Experience designing, operating, and scaling Kubernetes clusters in production;
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform;
• Ability to design reusable and maintainable infrastructure modules;
• Proficiency with configuration management and packaging tools such as Helm;
• Knowledge of modern deployment practices, GitOps workflows, Argo CD, and GitLab CI;
• Experience building and operating observability systems, including metrics, logging, and tracing;
• Familiarity with incident management processes and tools such as PagerDuty;
• Comfortable triaging and resolving production incidents;
• Experience designing and building shared infrastructure or internal platforms used by other engineering teams;
• Living in the Netherlands;
• Nice to have: experience with Datadog and Sentry, understanding of platform engineering principles, product-oriented mindset, ability to prioritise work based on business impact, pragmatic trade-offs, focus on delivering value, strong collaboration with engineering teams, co-creating solutions, gathering feedback, and driving adoption of platform tools and practices.

• €6,000 To €7,000 per month.