Sovereign Platform Engineer - Confidential Computing

About the Position

Bull is a story. One with a century of European innovation and a working environment where experts design powerful, sustainable, and sovereign digital solutions, enabling states and industries to retain full control over their data and their AI.

We are looking for a Sovereign Platform Engineer - Confidential Computing to help build secure sovereign cloud and AI platforms powered by confidential computing technologies.

At Bull, you will join the Enterprise Computing & Networking Competency Centre (ECN), driving innovation across R&D, Product Management, Support & Delivery, Manufacturing, and the CTO Office. Working at the intersection of confidential computing, trusted hardware, sovereign cloud, and AI infrastructure, you will evaluate emerging technologies and transform them into scalable, production-ready platform capabilities.

As a technical lead, you will drive the evaluation, validation, and industrialization of emerging sovereign platform technologies.

Responsibilities

• Build and industrialize confidential computing platforms

  • Design and implement Kubernetes-based platforms leveraging technologies such as Intel TDX, confidential containers, and Kata Containers
  • Embed security-by-design principles including cryptography, secure boot, attestation, and secrets management
  • Apply Zero Trust principles to workload identity, verification, and isolation
  • Define reference architectures and deployable patterns for sovereign cloud environments
  • Design lifecycle management, orchestration, and automation capabilities across private, hybrid, and sovereign cloud infrastructures

• Prototype, develop, and validate solutions

  • Build prototypes and proofs of concept to evaluate emerging technologies
  • Contribute to sovereign platform and DPU technology roadmaps
  • Develop platform components and tooling using Go, Rust, Python, or C/C++
  • Transform experimental concepts into validated assets ready for transfer to R&D
  • Evaluate hardware/software integration across processors, accelerators, virtualization, containers, and orchestration layers

• Measure and optimize performance

  • Benchmark and optimize platform performance across hardware, virtualization, container, and orchestration layers
  • Assess security versus performance trade-offs
  • Provide data-driven recommendations to support architectural and product decisions

• Leverage and contribute to open-source ecosystems

  • Work with Kubernetes, KVM, QEMU, Kata Containers, Confidential Containers, attestation frameworks, and key management services
  • Troubleshoot and improve components across the stack, including Linux system layers when required
  • Contribute integrations, fixes, and enhancements aligned with platform objectives

• Bridge customer needs, hardware innovation, and cloud services

  • Translate low-level security capabilities into consumable platform services
  • Collaborate closely with Cloud Distinguished Architects, customer teams, and technology partners
  • Support the definition and prioritization of confidential computing use cases
  • Influence platform roadmaps, product requirements, and technology directions
  • Engage internal and external stakeholders to evaluate and validate emerging technologies

Requirements

Experience

• 10+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, datacenter technologies, or related domains
• Experience working with R&D, product organizations, partners, and customers to industrialize innovative technologies
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Linux, containers, cryptography, attestation, secure boot, or secrets management
• Experience with cloud orchestration, infrastructure automation, and systems engineering
• Practical development experience in Go, Rust, Python, or C/C++

Technical Skills

• Confidential Computing technologies, Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), and attestation
• Hardware root of trust, platform integrity, and secure boot
• Sovereign infrastructure technologies including DPUs, trusted silicon, and accelerators
• Cloud-native, virtualization, and container technologies
• Linux and systems engineering
• Hybrid cloud orchestration and management platforms
• Performance engineering, benchmarking, and optimization
• Open-source platforms and collaborative development practices

Leadership Skills

• Lead complex technical initiatives from exploration through industrialization
• Translate emerging technologies into platform capabilities and architectural guidance
• Communicate effectively with engineers, customers, partners, and senior stakeholders
• Influence technical and strategic decisions across multiple organizations
• Build trusted relationships with customers, partners, and internal teams

Languages

• Professional fluency in English is required.
• French is considered a strong plus.

We Offer

• Location: Eindhoven, Netherlands, or Remote within the Netherlands
• Opportunity to work on some of the most advanced technologies shaping the future of sovereign cloud, confidential computing, and AI infrastructure.
• Influence technology decisions from exploration to industrialization, working closely with customer technical teams, R&D, Product Management, and the CTO Office.
• Contribute to building secure, next-generation platforms for highly regulated and business-critical environments.

About the Company

Bull is a people-centric, innovation-driven company, where collaboration spans Europe, the Americas, and India. We share a common vision of a responsible and sustainable innovation that delivers concrete impact for our customers.

Join us! Here, your ideas, your curiosity, and your technical excellence directly shape the next era of advanced computing - unlocking enterprise value, accelerating scientific progress, and driving positive impact for society.

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