Infrastructure Platform Engineer

Flow Traders

Salary: not listed by employer
Estimated range: not enough salary data for this role yet.
Permanent residency after about 5 yrs
Citizenship after about 5 yrs
Work language: likely English (posting is in English)

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About the role

Infrastructure Platform Engineer runs the trading system infrastructure Flow Traders trades on: the global Linux fleet — trading servers, workstations and VDIs — and the multi-cloud and distributed-systems estate that sits alongside it. We also build and run the self-service infrastructure platform the rest of Technology depends on.

We are hiring two engineers into this team. This is a hands-on engineering role: most of your time goes on writing Terraform, building CI workflows and guardrails, automating toil out of the Linux fleet, and operating what you build. A lot of the shared tooling does not exist yet, and building it is the job rather than a side effect of it. The…

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Salary

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Work visa routes in Netherlands

EU Blue Card

Salary at least €5,942 per month (gross per month, excluding the 8% holiday allowance). €4,754 per month for graduates who apply within 3 years of graduating.

An employment contract at or above the salary threshold
A diploma from a higher education course that lasted at least 3 years

Without a degree

At least 5 years of relevant work experience at a level comparable to a higher education diploma
IT managers and IT professionals: at least 3 years of relevant work experience in the 7 years before applying

Source: IND (Immigration and Naturalisation Service): Coming to work in the Netherlands(opens in new tab) · checked 5 October 2026

Highly skilled migrant

Salary at least €5,942 per month (age 30 or older; gross per month, excluding the 8% holiday allowance). €4,357 per month for people under 30 (€3,122 for recent graduates).

An employer that is an IND recognised sponsor
A salary at or above the threshold for your age

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How long a decision takes

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Work permits issued in 2025

20,673 first permits for work
336 EU Blue Cards
10,422 highly skilled worker permits

First permits only, all nationalities. Eurostat (migr_resocc)(opens in new tab), updated 28 September 2026.

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If the job ends

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