About the job offer:
KLANIK is an IT engineering consulting company supporting its clients in their digital and technological transformation projects.
With more than 750 talents across 16 offices in Europe, North America, Africa and the Middle East, we deliver strategic projects in Cloud, DevOps, Software, Big Data, AI, Agility and Cybersecurity.
Beyond technical expertise, joining KLANIK means becoming part of a collective where each consultant benefits from unique support through:
KONSCIOUS, our CSR community
KAMPUS, our certified training institute
KORNER, our start-up incubator
KLANIK ESPORT, our e-sport club
The role:
We are looking for a Senior Application Platform Engineer to join an application platform team responsible for supporting development teams and maintaining the platforms hosting business-critical applications.
Purpose of the role: design, maintain and evolve application platforms while enabling development teams to deploy, run and operate their applications efficiently in both traditional and cloud-native environments.
Your main responsibilities:
* Design, implement and manage changes to application platforms (Windows Server & Kubernetes-based environments)
* Maintain software components that form the application platforms and document support procedures
* Support developers and application architects during solution design and accompany them through implementation up to production
* Analyze and troubleshoot technical issues and incidents related to deployed applications
* Propose improvements and optimizations to the application platforms
* Support and coach team members on platform components and best practices
* Participate in an on-duty support rotation (24/7) on a 1 week out of 4 schedule, when required
Technical environment & required skills:
You will work on platforms hosting internally developed applications across on-premise and cloud-native infrastructures.
Key technologies include (by order of importance):
* Windows Server
* PowerShell (DSC)
* Kubernetes (AKS)
* Hashicorp Consul
* Ansible / Ansible Automation
* ArgoCD
* Helm
* Grafana stack (Alloy, Mimir, Loki, Tempo)
* Citrix ADC
* RabbitMQ
* Azure DevOps Pipelines
* Azure Service Bus
* Chocolatey
* Inedo ProGet
Expected experience:
* Strong experience (>4 years) managing cloud-native workloads in corporate environments
* Proven expertise (>4 years) in managing Kubernetes clusters and related components (e.g. Istio, Keda, Harbor)
* Professional experience with Infrastructure as Code (Ansible, Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Azure DevOps)
* Solid background (>4 years) in managing public cloud environments (Azure and/or AWS)
* Hands-on scripting experience (PowerShell, Azure CLI)
* Knowledge of traditional IT infrastructure and software development environments
Profile we are looking for:
* Passionate about cloud-native technologies and platform engineering
* Strong analytical mindset and problem-solving skills
* Autonomous, proactive and solution-oriented
* Strong communication and collaboration abilities
* Comfortable working in regulated and structured environments
* Team player with mentoring and knowledge-sharing capabilities
Languages
* English: fluent (mandatory)
* Dutch & French: ability to at least follow conversations passively (mandatory)
Start date: As soon as possible
Workload: Full-time
Why join KLANIK?
Because here, you are more than just a consultant.
You will work on strategic platform engineering topics in complex and high-impact environments, contributing to the reliability and evolution of application hosting ecosystems.
You will grow within a supportive and dynamic collective that values technical excellence, continuous learning and knowledge sharing, while offering real career development opportunities.