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