Medior Platform Engineer

Done clicking environments together by hand?

You want to build platforms that grow with whatever runs on them. That might be a new AI product in the cloud, or an installation in a client’s data centre. Everything lives in infrastructure as code. You write that code with AI, and you can write it just as well without.

And you want to do it in a small team of engineers who like to be broadly capable. Everyone has their own speciality and knows enough of the rest to help build. You bring the depth in infrastructure and pick up the rest from your colleagues.

Sound like you? We’d love to meet you.

About FIDDS Solutions

FIDDS helps organisations move forward with data and AI. We’re about 30 people across four areas of expertise: Strategy, Design, Solutions and Obeya. We have offices in Breukelen and on the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven. We work for organisations such as Rijkswaterstaat and UWV in the Dutch public sector, and ASML. For them, what AI can do matters, but so does who controls the data and whether the solution is responsible. That’s why sovereignty, compliance and ethics are our starting point.

You’ll join the Solutions team in Breukelen. We build data and AI solutions for clients there, and develop our own sovereign AI products. Client projects fund that product development. Right now the split is roughly 80% client work and 20% product, and within two to three years we want to flip that. You’ll help make that shift happen.

We’re a young company with big ambitions, and you’ll feel it. You get room to shape how we work, functionally and technically. At the same time, you have the weight of FIDDS Group behind you, from large clients to colleagues in Strategy and Design.

What you will do

You build the infrastructure under our client projects and our own products, so a new project or product can start quickly, securely and reproducibly.

• You set up environments in AWS or Azure with Terraform;
• You configure Kubernetes clusters;
• You build the CI/CD pipelines that take code from commit to production;
• You build security into everything you set up, from the start;
• After a project’s start-up phase, your work shifts towards backend development and keeping things running.

Not everything runs in the public cloud. For some clients we install on-premises, and where we can, we choose a sovereign European cloud such as Scaleway. We work to ISO 27001: the external audit is done, and formal certification follows at the end of 2026.

Because we work in T-shaped teams, sharing knowledge is part of the job. Like the rest of the team, you work AI-assisted. You’ll be at our office in Breukelen at least two days a week, including Friday, our fixed team day. Now and then you’ll work at a client site.

To set expectations: this isn’t a pure infrastructure role. Your work moves with the phase a project is in. On-premises at a client, you work within strict security rules and change processes, and those take more time than you’re used to in the cloud. If you want to focus purely on infrastructure, another place will suit you better.

What you bring

• 3 to 5 years of cloud and infrastructure work in a professional setting;
• Strong Terraform and Kubernetes skills;
• Experience with Azure or AWS;
• Experience setting up CI/CD pipelines yourself;
• Dutch preferably, though fluent English works too;
• A home within commuting distance of Breukelen, in the Utrecht or Amsterdam region for example.

Experience with a European cloud is a big plus. If you can also write backend code, in Python or C# for example, that clearly counts in your favour.

Additionally you have

• Independence. You get on with it. You don’t wait for a brief, and if the question isn’t sharp yet, you sharpen it;
• A critical eye. You already use AI in your work, and you question what it gives you;
• The urge to shape how we work, not just what we deliver. We’re small enough that your way of working changes the company.

What you can expect from us

• 💰 € 4,500 to € 5,800 gross per month based on 40 hours, excluding holiday allowance;
• 📈 An annual profit share;
• 🗓️ 32 to 40 hours a week, with Friday as a fixed team day;
• 🏝️ 25 days of annual leave;
• 📆 A solid pension scheme;
• 💻 The laptop of your choice, a MacBook Pro or Microsoft Surface for example;
• ☎️ An iPhone or Android phone, plus a connectivity allowance;
• 🚙 Your pick of an electric lease car or a travel budget;
• 🎓 € 2,000 a year to spend on training, courses and development;
• 🏠 Hybrid working across our office, client sites and home.

Interested?

Sound good? We’d love to hear from you. Send us your CV and tell us what you’ve worked on. Email Rishi Dokkum at rishi.dokkum@fidds.nl to set up an introduction, and we’ll have the coffee ready.

This is a permanent, salaried position and not open to freelancers. We don’t welcome approaches from recruitment agencies for this vacancy.