Platform Engineer

Our Team

We believe travel can create citizens of the world. We spark moments of connection and transformation giving people the freedom to explore openly and shape their own story.

With colleagues from more than 50 countries our diversity sparks curiosity insight and a culture of openness essential to understanding our travellers and one another.

We work in a flexible hybrid model from our Utrecht HQ and our homes across the Netherlands.

Just as travel is about discovery were looking for people who want to go one stop further joining a journey that inspires personal transformation through train travel.

Were on the search for

a Platform Engineer who can go One Stop Further by helping us build and evolve a secure scalable and developer-friendly platform that enables our product teams to deliver great travel experiences faster and more reliably.

Youll play an important role in enhancing our cloud platform improving automation embedding security into engineering practices and enabling product teams to focus on delivering customer value rather than managing infrastructure complexity.

Also its good to know that the team has agreed to meet in the office for at least 2 days; you will be expected to be in the office on those days to work side by side with your colleagues.

What youll be doing

Youll be joining the Platform team the team responsible for building and maintaining the technology foundations that support our product teams.

The platform team enables engineering teams through automation infrastructure standards security integration and developer self-service capabilities.

You will report to the Head of IT Platform and collaborate closely with architects product teams QA and security specialists.

Youll be involved in designing and improving our cloud platform enabling secure and efficient software delivery and improving the developer experience across our engineering organisation.

Your responsibilities

• Design implement and maintain cloud infrastructure (AWS) using Infrastructure as Code (Serverless framework / CloudFormation)

• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines on GitLab to support reliable and automated software delivery

• Integrate DevSecOps practices into the development lifecycle by embedding security checks and controls into pipelines and infrastructure

• Develop self-service platform capabilities that simplify deployment environment management and infrastructure provisioning for product teams

• Improve developer experience (DevEx) by reducing operational complexity and increasing automation

• Implement and maintain monitoring logging and observability solutions to support system reliability and operational insights

• Collaborate with security teams to ensure secure-by-design architecture and compliance standards

• Support engineering teams in adopting platform tools best practices and automation

• Explore and leverage AI-assisted tools to improve automation operational insights and developer productivity

• Contribute to documentation knowledge sharing and continuous improvement of platform capabilities

What were looking for

We are looking for a senior-level engineer with extensive AWS expertise and a platform mindset typically with:

• 5 years of experience in cloud engineering DevOps or platform engineering

• Proven experience working in multi-team cloud-native environments

Core Skills

• Strong expertise in AWS cloud architecture and services

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Serverless Framework CloudFormation or similar tools

• Experience designing and operating cloud-native systems

• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines

• Deep understanding of DevSecOps practices integrating security into development pipelines and infrastructure

• Extensive experience with serverless technologies (Lambdas DynamoDB etc)

• Extensive experience with container technologies and orchestration (Docker Kubernetes ECS/EKS)

• Familiarity with monitoring logging and observability tools

• Understanding of Platform Engineering and DevOps principles

• Experience improving developer productivity through automation and platform tooling

• Interest or experience in using AI-assisted tools to enhance engineering productivity automation and operational insights

• Effective collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively with product teams architects and security specialists

In addition its extra credit if you have

• Experience building or contributing to internal developer platforms

• Experience supporting microservices-based architectures

• Experience implementing policy-as-code or security automation

• Knowledge of the SAFe framework

• Interest in sustainable travel!

Our offer

• We offer a flexible hybrid model that combines remote work with in-office days each week enhancing teamwork and connection.

• A complimentary NS train card to travel across the Netherlands for work and leisure.

• An annual free Interrail/Eurail travel pass for you and a companion so you can explore Europe and share the same experiences as our customers.

• Unlimited access to OpenUp for lifestyle & well-being recommendations.

• Support for your well-being through a personal allowance of 1500.

• We provide a training allowance of 4000 to support learning opportunities relevant to your role.

• Variable annual bonus (target 4%) based on company and individual performance.

• An annual team trip across Europe to experience our product first-hand.

• 20 working days per year from abroad.

• An annual leave package of 28 days plus study days volunteer days and a culture day.

• Salary Scale: 60 Monthly gross salary (excluding 8% allowance): 5200 - 6800 (full-time) based on experience.

Curious to apply

Apply directly via our website ( ask you to share your resume in English (our business language) and tell us why youre interested in Eurail and this particular role. It doesnt hurt to be creative; we enjoy seeing your personality shine through.

If we think you might be a good candidate the next step is a relatively informal interview. For you this is a chance to understand if Eurail is your ideal workplace and for us it tells us more about the value you would bring.

To support fair and unbiased hiring we use a blind recruitment process in the early stages. Personal details such as your name date of birth photo contact information social media links gender and nationality are hidden allowing us to focus on your skills experience and potential.

In the meantime

If youre curious why not check us out on LinkedIn and get a sense of our culture and values

Got questions Our People & Culture team would be happy to help just drop us a note at . We dont use LinkedIn for messages so this is the best way to reach us!

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