What will you do?

Your job in a nutshell

As a Container Platform Engineer, you design, manage, and optimize Jumbo’s Kubernetes platform on Amazon EKS. You implement GitOps, security policies, and automation using Terraform, Helm, and Kustomize to create scalable and secure container environments.
What are we doing it for?

By building a reliable and secure container platform, you ensure applications are deployed quickly and stably. This supports Jumbo’s digital innovation and contributes to an optimal customer experience.
Your new team

You work in the Container Platform team at the headquarters in Veghel. Together with cloud engineers, developers, and security specialists, you create infrastructure that supports more than 60 DevOps teams.
Who do you work with?

You collaborate with domain-specific cloud engineering teams, DevOps teams, and security partners to deliver secure, scalable container solutions and integrations with AWS services and Infrastructure as Code practices.

As a Container Platform Engineer at Jumbo, you’ll design, operate, and optimize our container platform based on Kubernetes and Amazon EKS. You’ll ensure reliability, security, and scalability while collaborating with development and DevOps teams to enable fast and efficient application delivery. Your responsibilities include:

You’ll manage Kubernetes clusters in production, including upgrades, migrations, and troubleshooting.
You’ll configure and maintain EKS architecture, implement GitOps deployment patterns, and enforce security policies.
You’ll also work with tools like Karpenter, Cilium, CoreDNS, Kyverno, and External Secrets Operator.
You are integrating AWS services and Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform, Helm, and Kustomize.

You’ll join the Container Platform team at our Veghel headquarters, working closely with developers, cloud engineers, and security specialists in an informal, collaborative environment that values initiative and innovation.

Collaboration is at the core of our approach. We work closely with domain-specific cloud engineering teams to support over 60 DevOps teams. Together, we deliver essential infrastructure building blocks tailored to their unique needs.

Strong experience with Kubernetes and Amazon EKS in production
Skilled in GitOps, Helm, Kustomize, and IaC tools like Terraform
Familiar with AWS services (e.g: EC2, VPC, IAM, ALB/NLB)
Knowledge of networking (Cilium experience is a major plus!), RBAC, and container security
Experience with observability tools (we use mostly Datadog, and tiny bits of Grafana and Prometheus)
Proficient in scripting and troubleshooting complex distributed systems

A gross salary between €5.700 - €7.100 per month (based on 40 hours).
An annual bonus of max 7.5% of your annual salary, based on organizational goals.
30 days of paid holiday (with the opportunity to buy or sell days of paid holiday) and 8% holiday allowance.
You build up a pension through participation in the Pension Fund for the Food Industry.
An (electric) lease car. We enjoy working together at the office, but you can also work partly from home.
Room for entrepreneurship, growth and development. Not only in your job but also through our Jumbo Academy, online training through GoodHabitz and with a training budget.
Daily fresh lunch in our Foodcafé, good coffee and fresh fruit. You can sport daily at our own Jumbo Gym for a small fee.
Colleague discounts such as 10% off your groceries, participation in our collective health insurance or discounts through Benefits at Work.

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"What's for dinner today?" You hear that question every day. And in your job at Jumbo, you help answer it. Working at Jumbo means working with people. A place where you feel at home, can be yourself, and where we work together toward shared goals. Your ideas to make customers, stores, and colleagues happy are more than welcome here. We believe our Jumbo colleagues make the difference: through who they are, what they do, and how they do it: with commitment, enthusiasm, and sometimes by doing things just a little differently. And we promise you: no two days are the same at Jumbo. There's plenty of room to learn and grow, both professionally and personally. So, what are you waiting for? Join our Jumbo family! You're very welcome here.

How applying works at Jumbo

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Let us know you're interested in working at Jumbo and in this job.
1st interview

We get to know you, and you get to know us.
E-assessment

An online assessment to test your skills.
2nd interview

We talk more about this job and see together whether it's a good match.
Offer

Are we both excited? Then we'll make you an offer.
Start at Jumbo

Time for your first working day. Welcome to Jumbo!

What interests you the most about this job?How do your strengths and skills align with the position?Why do you believe you're a great fit for Jumbo?

As a Container Platform Engineer, you design, manage, and optimize Jumbo’s Kubernetes platform on Amazon EKS. You implement GitOps, security policies, and automation using Terraform, Helm, and Kustomize to create scalable and secure container environments.

By building a reliable and secure container platform, you ensure applications are deployed quickly and stably. This supports Jumbo’s digital innovation and contributes to an optimal customer experience.

You work in the Container Platform team at the headquarters in Veghel. Together with cloud engineers, developers, and security specialists, you create infrastructure that supports more than 60 DevOps teams.

You collaborate with domain-specific cloud engineering teams, DevOps teams, and security partners to deliver secure, scalable container solutions and integrations with AWS services and Infrastructure as Code practices.

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Michael von Harras

06 - 14 76 76 16 michael.vonharras@jumbo.com

What will you do?

Your job in a nutshell

What are we doing it for?

Your new team

Who do you work with?

What will you do?

Who are you?

What do you get from us?

Why Jumbo?

How applying works at Jumbo

Send us your application

1st interview

E-assessment

2nd interview

Offer

Start at Jumbo

Michael von Harras