About this role
Budget Thuis logo Infrastructure & Platform Engineering Manager - - Amsterdam - Product & Tech Functieomschrijving How do you make infrastructure a platform that development teams genuinely enjoy working with? As Infrastructure & Platform Engineering Manager at Budget Thuis, you lead two teams with one shared goal: creating more self-service, a smarter hybrid setup, and a platform that helps development teams move faster and build better. Sounds like your kind of challenge? Read on and apply. What you'll do As Infrastructure & Platform Engineering Manager you lead our Infrastructure team and our Platform Engineering team: two teams, one manager, working closely together. - Lead two teams: a Platform Engineering team where you directly manage the Tech Lead and four platform engineers, and an Infrastructure team led by its own Lead; - Move the team away from a ticket-driven service model towards self-service and product thinking; - Build developer platform capabilities on top of Kubernetes, so development teams can help themselves instead of waiting on infra; - Manage a hybrid setup: mostly on-premises, with Azure and a smaller part on AWS; - Keep a sharp eye on cost-to-serve, steering on cost per unit rather than on utilization or ticket volume; - Infrastructure supports every company in the group, including Comtree and Fibercrew; Platform Engineering currently builds for Budget Thuis only, and part of this role is deciding whether and how that should change; - Take a seat in the IT management team and report directly to our CTO. About the team You lead two teams with a different shape. Platform Engineering is small and close: you directly manage the Tech Lead and four platform engineers. Infrastructure runs through its own Lead, supporting every company in the group, including Comtree and Fibercrew. We stay on our own hardware and datacenters on purpose: it lets us weigh cost against benefit every day, which is a big ...