Job Description

Sensara is a fast-growing scale-up with one clear mission: offering seniors the best possible life using smart technology. Our platform supports healthcare organisations, from home care to nursing homes, with a versatile SaaS solution that runs entirely on Google Cloud and is used 24/7 in real care settings.

We are at an inflection point. The product has matured, the market is growing, and client expectations are rising. To support our next phase of growth, we are investing seriously in platform stability, release predictability, and engineering excellence. This role sits at the centre of that effort.

You own the pipes. When developers ship code, you are the reason it reaches production safely, quickly, and with full visibility.

As Platform Engineer, you will take hands-on ownership of our CI/CD pipelines, deployment infrastructure, and release process. You will work directly with the Head of Development to build the tooling and practices that underpin our 12-month roadmap, moving from unstable, high-risk releases to scheduled, low-risk deployments with clear metrics and rollback capability.

This is not a reactive operations role. It is a builder role. You will design, implement, and progressively hand off the infrastructure that makes the rest of the engineering team more effective and confident.

"You will design, implement, and own the infrastructure that makes releases safe, fast, and observable, and help the team build the habits to match."

Release & Deployment Ownership

• Design and own the end-to-end release process: branching strategy, environment promotion (dev → staging → production), go/no-go criteria, and rollback procedures
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that give developers fast, reliable feedback and safe paths to production
• Implement feature flags to decouple deployment from feature launch
• Establish and track release metrics: deployment frequency, change failure rate, and mean time to recovery

Infrastructure & Platform Stability

• Own and evolve our Kubernetes workloads on GCP — reliability, scaling, and operational health
• Improve monitoring and alerting across the platform, with particular focus on our event bus, external integrations, and critical services
• Lead the scalability review of our core platform and help translate findings into an actionable roadmap
• Contribute to a target of 40% reduction in deployment time through pipeline and process improvements

Process & Team Enablement

• Define and document pull request standards, Definition of Done, and deployment readiness criteria
• Support the incident management process: detection, response, post-mortem, and the learning loop
• Serve as a role model for engineering quality and take initiative in raising the bar across the team

Qualifications

Required

• 2+ years in a DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE role
• Hands-on ownership of CI/CD pipelines in a cloud-native environment
• Strong experience with Kubernetes, deployment, scaling, and troubleshooting
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP), monitoring, networking, managed services
• Comfortable with Java/SpringBoot codebases, you don't need to build features, but you need to understand what you're shipping
• Experience defining and measuring reliability metrics

Strong Plus

• Scale-up or fast-growth environment, you know how to bring structure without bureaucracy
• Incident management and post-mortem facilitation
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent)
• Event-driven or microservices architectures
• Healthcare, regulated, or 24/7 availability contexts

We are looking for someone who takes initiative and makes things better without being asked. You will be working in a team that is building structure for the first time, that requires patience, clarity in communication, and genuine care about the engineers around you as much as the systems you build.

• You explain trade-offs clearly, pros, cons, and context, rather than pushing a single answer
• You would rather read documentation and understand a system than guess and fix it later
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and can help create clarity from it
• You care about the mission, what we build helps elderly people live with greater independence

Additional Information

What We Offer

A position where your work has direct, visible impact, on a platform used in real care environments every day.

• A 12-month roadmap with clear priorities and leadership backing, you will not be firefighting alone
• Direct collaboration with the Head of Development on shaping how the engineering organisation works
• Enthusiastic colleagues who are eager to develop together and make a real impact in elderly care
• A dynamic scale-up environment with room for initiative, if you see something that needs fixing, fix it
• Excellent employment conditions
• 25 vacation days
• Company laptop
• Hybrid working, minimum 2 days/week at the Rotterdam office
• Unlimited career opportunities, if you grow, Sensara grows with you

Interested in becoming our new Site Reliability Engineer? Apply by clicking the application button, or directly contact Salima El Moutaouakkil (+31 (0)6 300 94 291).