Infrastructure Platform Engineer (Cloud/Linux)

Location: On-site in the Amsterdam area, Netherlands; candidates must be based there or willing to relocate.

Company

hirify.global operates trading-critical technology infrastructure across on-premise systems and public cloud.

What you will do

• Write, debug, publish, and operate reusable Terraform modules for the Linux fleet and cloud estate.
• Design and own GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows, including policy checks, tests, approval gates, and infrastructure guardrails.
• Build and operate Kubernetes across managed cloud clusters and on-premise k3s, including distributed systems such as Kafka.
• Provision and operate GCP, AWS, and Alibaba Cloud resources through Infrastructure as Code.
• Automate and operate Linux infrastructure using Foreman, Puppet, Ansible/AWX, patching, and lifecycle management.
• Develop internal automation and tooling in Python or Go, participate in the global 24/7 on-call rotation, and cross-skill between Linux and cloud infrastructure.

Requirements

• Strong Terraform experience, including writing, debugging, and producing reusable modules.
• CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins, including infrastructure gates and policy checks.
• Production Kubernetes experience across workloads, CNI, Helm, and Argo.
• Hands-on experience provisioning and operating GCP or AWS through Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong Linux fundamentals, including processes, networking, storage, systemd, logs, and kernel versus user space.
• Proficiency in Python or Go with demonstrable test-driven development experience.
• Production on-call and incident-response experience, with a considered approach to sustainable rotations.
• Typically 5+ years of infrastructure, platform, or systems engineering experience.
• Fluent written and spoken English; on-site work in the Amsterdam area is required.

Nice to have

• Cross-domain experience spanning Linux/systems and cloud/platform engineering.
• GCP experience, Kafka production experience, and experience with Puppet, Ansible/AWX, or Foreman.
• Bare-metal and datacenter infrastructure experience, including hardware lifecycle, virtualization, routing, load balancing, BGP, or multicast.
• Experience in financial services, trading, or another high-availability, latency-sensitive environment.
• Dutch language skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on build-and-operate work without direct reports or a management focus.
• Work across both on-premise infrastructure and public cloud rather than specializing in only one area.
• Participation in a global 24/7 on-call rotation with deliberate cross-skilling between Linux and cloud operations.
• Trading-critical infrastructure environment requiring operational reliability and automation.