Douane Nederland is a government agency managing import, export, and transit oversight across major Dutch ports and airports with 6,000+ staff. The tech stack—Java, SAP, Windows, Linux, Kubernetes—reflects institutional scale, and active adoption of OpenShift and Azure signals a cloud migration underway. Hiring velocity is accelerating across operations, engineering, and data roles, with projects clustered around automating customs processes, modernizing legacy applications, and professionalizing internal services—priorities that align with the agency's stated challenge of harmonizing operations and strengthening risk assessment.
Douane Nederland is the Dutch Customs Administration, responsible for monitoring and controlling goods crossing Dutch borders, including operations at Rotterdam port and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. The agency collects import duties and excise taxes, enforces safety and environmental standards, and manages cargo risk assessment. With 6,000+ employees, it operates a mixed IT environment (SAP, Java, C#, SQL) and is undergoing digital transformation initiatives focused on automating core customs workflows and migrating legacy systems to cloud infrastructure.
Java, C#, SAP, SQL, Kubernetes, Linux, Windows, Python. The agency is adopting OpenShift and Azure as part of a modernization effort to move legacy applications to cloud.
Projects include automating standard customs processes, modernizing legacy applications to cloud, digitalizing IT operations, renewing internal intranet, and enhancing risk assessment frameworks for goods declarations.
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