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Senior Platform Engineer
Wat is jouw rol?
Do you want to help shape the technological future of dairy farming and are you an expert in platform engineering? Then this is your chance.
As a Senior Platform Engineer within the Developer Experience team at Lely, you will play a key role in the development and management of our edge device solution—the technology that runs directly on the farm and is crucial to our robots.
You will ensure that this edge solution is scalable, maintainable, and fully automated according to SRE principles. In doing so, you’ll not only take on technical responsibility but also act as a sparring partner and mentor within the team. You actively embody Lely's senior values by promoting collaboration, sharing knowledge, and continuously striving for improvement.
Additionally, you will be the team’s go-to person for everything related to the edge. You take ownership, maintain an overview of the bigger picture, and know how to translate technical decisions into sustainable long-term solutions.
Your key responsibilities:
- Designing, building, and maintaining a robust and automated edge solution in line with SRE principles
- Acting as a technical leader and coach for fellow engineers within the team
- Translating technical requirements into scalable and secure edge device solutions
- Standardizing and optimizing deployment pipelines and infrastructure (CI/CD)
- Implementing security standards and monitoring solutions within the edge domain
- Proactively contributing to the technical strategy and roadmap for our platform
Wat is jouw ervaring?
You are an experienced engineer with a passion for infrastructure and edge computing. You have a strong eye for quality, security, and automation. You’re a strong communicator who knows how to inspire colleagues—both technically and personally.
You also bring the following:
- Solid experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and service-oriented architectures
- A mindset of infrastructure as code, with hands-on experience using tools like Terraform and Ansible
- A security-first attitude and familiarity with ensuring system-level safety
- Comfort working in CI/CD environments such as GitLab, and knowledge of observability tools like Grafana and Sysdig
- Experience with or interest in Talos, Omni, ArgoCD, and Python scripting
- Knowledge of networking and cloud platforms (preferably Azure) is a plus
Wat bieden wij jou?
To address the food demand and challenge for 2050, it is crucial to handle people, animals, and the environment responsibly. For us, this means being a reliable long-term partner for our customers and passing on the world to the next generation through sustainable product development. You can contribute to realizing this dream.
What can you expect in your role as a Senior Platform Engineer?
- Working in an international work environment within one of the most innovative organizations in the Netherlands and also the largest robot producer in Europe.
- Excellent employment conditions, including up to 8 weeks of vacation.
- A full-time salary between €5,500 and €7,100 gross per month. Where we would like to see a growth option within the scale.
- Opportunities for growth where you are in charge of your own development.
- Space and freedom to innovate, bring in new ideas, and undertake initiatives. We not only offer this, but we also genuinely expect it. It's up to you to come up with ideas and implement them.
- A team with enthusiastic, helpful colleagues, collaborating with product development, procurement, and other stakeholders.
- Our Lely Academy offers various training programs, such as personality training or more job-relevant training. If you want to develop yourself but it's not in the curriculum, you discuss it with your manager.
- The #FitatLely program with our own Lely Gym. A volleyball court, basketball court, football table, and ping pong table where you can challenge your colleagues or take a break from work.
- Lease-a-Bike scheme to lease a new bike affordably.
- Additionally, enjoy the services and wide range of coffee and tea from our personal barista at the Lely Campus, who makes the tastiest cappuccinos from fresh milk, directly from our own farmer from the Lely Orbiter, for example.
- A healthy work-life balance with a hybrid policy where you are minimum 3 days on Campus. This is flexible and can be arranged in consultation with your manager. Prefer more time on our modern Campus? You are always welcome (between 06:00 a.m. and 08:00 p.m.).
- Moreover, we love to celebrate. Whether it's an anniversary or our Christmas party, at Lely, we know how to celebrate! For a feel of the atmosphere, check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WA3e0WHbxE
If you want to know more about working at Lely or about the vacancy, please contact me or respond via the button.
Recruitment & selection agency, consultancy, and/or staffing agency?
We appreciate the interest, but we recruit all our candidates directly. We understand that as intermediaries, you want to present candidates for our great positions and contribute to our ambitions, but this is not how we have set up our recruitment process. This means that all unsolicited profiles offered on Lely vacancies will be treated as direct applications.
Over Lely
At Lely, we believe in achieving a sustainable, profitable and agreeable future for dairy farmers by combining robotisation, engineering and farming expertise.
It all started with a dream cherished by two brothers in Maassluis 75 years ago, and ever since, we have worked to become innovative market leaders in automated systems for dairy farmers across the globe. With a team of 2,500 professional specialists, we work constantly to bring about revolutionary solutions for the agro industry. We are based at our Maassluis Campus, a building which features the highest sustainability performance possible, not just in the Netherlands, but on a global scale. Our overall objective: making dairy farming interesting, also for the coming generations.
