Powering a digital labor platform with infrastructure services from Google Cloud
Maqqie offers payroll, search and match of companies and workers on a digital platform. The company facilitates contracts (flexible and fixed), taking into account all relevant legislation and regulations, including social security aspects and pensions. Removing all barriers for flex work in a single platform. Maqqie’s ambition is to become the largest employer in the Netherlands in 5 years. Rappit has set-up and is managing Maqqie’s Google Cloud environment (“landing zone”). Enabling the digital native to become the 2nd fastest-growing tech startup of the Netherlands according to the Deloitte Fast50.
Their challenges
- The platform needs infrastructure that is solid in performance, scalable in ambition, and predictable in budget. Facilitate move from a “shoestring funded” start-up to a venture capital backed scale-up.
- Need for a highly-trained operations team that can provide 24*7 support and ensure service availability for mission-critical platform.
- Need for standard monitoring and alerting policies on various levels like infrastructure, application, network, and security to detect threats and vulnerabilities and mitigate them.
- Need to innovate faster and deliver new solutions with improved stability and low operations costs.
Our solutions
- Establish a partnership with a proven vendor for end-to-end service delivery on GCP with a focus on provisioning and managing infrastructure.
- Professionally set up and manage a landing zone on Google Cloud where ‘security by design’ is the starting point and by leveraging the cloud best practices.
- Implement highly automated infrastructure provisioning and ensure infrastructure consistency through Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Implement mature monitoring tools that provide detailed insights and alerting on availability, performance, security, and costs.
- Design and implement a secure software supply chain with the right DevOps strategy for the cloud, including the right tooling and building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
Results
- A compliant and resilient cloud landing zone for Maqqie’s growing list of workloads including its recruitment platform, data integration services, and solution offerings with analytics and AI/ML.
- Grow responsibly and without limits: Infrastructure scales dynamically to match the needs of the recruitment platform’s utilization and demands. Pay only for the resources needed, when needed.
- A well-experienced and professional global support team to monitor, perform proactive maintenance activities, and ensure smooth operations.
- 3x faster rollout of changes to software due to mature DevOps practices.
- Enabling Maqqie’s dream to grow 100x, becoming one of the fastest-growing tech companies in the Netherlands.
Maqqie
Maqqie is an HR tech scale-up based out of the Netherlands. Maqqie’s digital work platform for employees, employers, independent consultants, and recruitment agencies organizes the entire hiring process, from recruitment to payment, in compliance with Dutch law.
It functions as both a short-term and a long-term employment platform, which is included in 60 collective labor agreements in the Netherlands, and currently has 35,000 employees and 2,500 companies connected to the platform. In 2022 Maqqie was awarded 2nd place in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50, for fastest-growing technology companies in The Netherlands.