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Senior Platform engineer (m/f/d) (SRE | Automation | Infrastructure | Operations & BAU)

Sofico

Location
Hybrid (Ghent, East Flanders)
Employment
Full-time
Level
Senior Level
Posted 1 week ago

About the role

Sofico is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer in Ghent to ensure the robustness and 24/7 availability of mission-critical automotive software. You will join a specialized track (SRE, Automation, Infrastructure, or Operations) to maintain system health, automate delivery pipelines, and manage hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering Kubernetes Infrastructure as Code CI/CD GitOps Azure Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Linux Python Go Terraform Ansible Docker SQL Observability System health

Benefits

  • Meal vouchers
  • Hospitalisation insurance
  • Group insurance

Perks

  • Company car
  • Mobility budget
  • Flexible working hours
  • Hybrid working model

Full job details

About the job & Sofico Platform Engineering

At Sofico, we power the automotive finance, leasing, and fleet mobility industry with mission-critical software solutions running for top-tier enterprise clients worldwide.

Our Platform Engineering organization ensures our environments remain robust, performant, and operational 24/7. Because running an enterprise platform spans both advanced forward-looking engineering and day-to-day operational execution, we are hiring Platform Engineers across specialized tracks.

 

From our Ghent office, you'll join one of our specialized Platform Engineering tracks, owning and evolving the technologies and processes that keep SOFICO's platforms robust, performant, and operational 24/7.
 
Whether you're passionate about deep infrastructure, GitOps-driven automation, production reliability, or hands-on platform operations, you'll play a key role in delivering a secure and dependable foundation for our products and customers.
 

 

What You'll Do 

We have dedicated teams tailored to different strengths, expertise and career interests.   

  1. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
  • What you’ll do: Focus on platform resilience, system health, and high availability. You define and monitor SLOs/SLAs, lead incident triage and root cause analyses (RCA), and build end-to-end observability across our platforms.
  • Key Technologies: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, FluentBit, Zabbix, OpsGenie, Linux, Bash/Python/Go.

 

  1. Platform Automation Team (PAT)
  • What you’ll do: Drive engineering speed and reliability through self-service internal developer tooling and Infrastructure as Code (IaC). You build CI/CD delivery pipelines, manage GitOps configurations, and automate container workloads.
  • Key Technologies: Kubernetes (K8s), Helm, Flux / ArgoCD, Terraform, Ansible, Atlantis, Docker / Podman, GitHub Actions, HashiCorp Vault.

 

  1. Platform Infrastructure Team (PIT)
  • What you’ll do: Scale and manage our hybrid cloud, on-prem virtual environments, core network topology, and enterprise databases. You ensure optimal capacity, manage perimeter security, and oversee OS lifecycles.
  • Key Technologies: Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), VMware, Nutanix, Oracle DB, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, GoldenGate, Cloudflare (WAF/Tunnels), IPSEC VPNs, Foreman, Veeam.

 

  1. Platform Operations / Business as Usual (BAU)
  • What you’ll do: Ensure stable day-to-day platform operations without the overhead of engineering new automation or tools. You execute standard operating procedures (SOPs), process routine service desk tickets, handle manual patch/deployment tasks, and perform scheduled environment maintenance.
  • Key Technologies: Jira Service Management, Linux & Windows Server CLI, basic SQL execution (Oracle / MSSQL), standard runbooks & SOPs, Zabbix/OpsGenie alert monitoring.

 

What You Bring

  • Expertise or experience in one of these above mentioned tracks.
  • Reliability & Ownership: Dedication to delivering on commitments and keeping services running smoothly.
  • Collaboration: Strong team orientation, eager to pair and support colleagues.
  • Communication: Clear written and spoken English; able to communicate technical status clearly in tickets and meetings.

 

Whether you're an expert in one of these areas or bring experience across several tracks, we'd be excited to hear from you and we would love to explore how you can contribute to our team.  

Apply now! 

 

What's In It For You… 

 

  • Competitive Compensation & Benefits: Attractive salary package complemented by meal vouchers, hospitalisation insurance, and group insurance, car or mobility budget.
  • Flexible Way of Working: Hybrid working model and flexible hours, giving you the autonomy to organize your workday in a way that suits you best.
  • Modern Workplace: Work from a contemporary co-working space designed to foster collaboration, comfort, and productivity.
  • Structured Onboarding & Coaching: 6-month onboarding track with a dedicated job coach to get you up to speed.
  • Collaborative Company Culture: Regular opportunities to connect with colleagues through informal drinks, team activities, and company-wide events that strengthen relationships beyond the workplace.

 

Ready to build the secure and deterministic capabilities behind the next generation of mobility software? Join SOFICO and let's shape what's next together!