Senior DevOps Engineer
Utrecht
Full-time
Reports to CTO
10+ years experience
About the Role
We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with a minimum of 10 years of professional experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining secure, scalable, and automated infrastructure. The ideal candidate is a hands-on technologist with a passion for security, performance, and developer enablement, capable of building robust systems from the ground up. You will play a key role in defining and operating our PAAS and data infrastructure, enabling a fast-moving, AI-assisted engineering organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure environments
- Design and manage cloud-native and PAAS-based deployments leveraging modern orchestration platforms like Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, and Redis
- Define and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane) to ensure consistent, repeatable infrastructure provisioning
- Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines that support test-driven and AI-assisted development workflows
- Proactively monitor, automate, and scale systems to ensure optimal performance, reliability, and cost efficiency
- Lead efforts in infrastructure security, compliance, and vulnerability management across environments
- Collaborate closely with backend, data, and product teams to deliver data-intensive and high-throughput systems
- Design and operate Big Data infrastructure (streaming, batch processing, storage) supporting analytics and ML workflows
- Establish observability best practices (metrics, tracing, logging) and ensure actionable insights for all production systems
- Drive incident response processes and post-mortem reviews focused on continuous improvement
- Proactively drive DevOps culture across the organization — emphasizing automation, ownership, and excellence
Required Qualifications
Experience
- 10+ years in DevOps or infrastructure engineering
- Proven experience setting up infrastructure from scratch
- Strong background in security engineering
Infrastructure
- Expertise with Kubernetes and containerization
- Deep knowledge of IaC tools (Terraform, Pulumi, AWS CDK)
- Cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, or DO)
CI/CD & DevSecOps
- Building and managing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
- PAAS platforms and multi-environment management
- TDD and DevSecOps principles integration
Big Data & Observability
- Big Data ecosystems (Kafka, Spark, Flink, NATS, ClickHouse)
- Monitoring stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
- Performance optimization for data-heavy workloads
Soft Skills
- Communication - Excellent skills in English (Dutch is a strong plus)
- Collaboration - Work closely with backend, data, and product teams
- Proactivity - Drive DevOps culture, emphasizing automation and excellence
- Ownership - Take end-to-end responsibility for infrastructure reliability
- Problem-solving - Lead incident response and continuous improvement