Senior DevOps Engineer

October 15, 2026

Hybrid

Senior

Utrecht

Indeed

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Original vacancy is in Dutch
You will likely need Dutch for the job. The employer can confirm

Description

The organization is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer who will continue, improve and expand several data science platforms. In this role you design, build and operate a robust, scalable and secure platform landscape based on Kubernetes, GitOps and SRE principles. You take a leading position at the intersection of technology and business and coach colleagues in the team.

Responsibilities

Continue, improve and expand multiple data science platforms within a complex organization
Design, build and further develop a robust, scalable and secure platform landscape
Take a leading role at the intersection of technology and business, balancing technical feasibility and business value
Take ownership of your work and align choices with teammates, product owners, architects and other stakeholders
Act as stakeholder manager, sparring partner and coach for colleagues in the team
Design, implement and manage improvements to Kubernetes-based platforms using CNCF applications, scaling, networking, RBAC, operators and CRDs
Work according to GitOps principles and configure application and platform deployments with ArgoCD, including multi-environment setups, sync strategies and rollback scenarios
Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI and GitHub Actions
Automate infrastructure and platform components with tools such as Ansible and Helm
Work in an on-premise environment including virtualization, storage, networking and firewalls
Set up professional monitoring and observability with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager and ELK/EFK
Apply SRE principles and reliability patterns, guide incident response and facilitate blameless postmortems
Apply security hardening in code, orchestrate network policies and handle secrets management
Manage container images (Docker/OCI), troubleshoot Linux and work with PostgreSQL and MySQL databases including operators and backups
Solve complex problems in distributed systems
Contribute to knowledge sharing, mentor medior and junior engineers and continuously improve the platform

Requirements

Deep technical knowledge and the ability to thrive in an innovative, complex and changing environment
Positive, flexible and can-do attitude with strong problem-solving skills and willingness to ask for help
HBO/WO working and thinking level, preferably in software development, informatics or comparable; if necessary testable in an assessment
Excellent communication skills (in Dutch)
Extensive experience working in Agile teams
Experience and affinity with coaching medior and junior IT specialists
Strong troubleshooting skills for complex IT systems
Minimum 5 years of experience in the DevOps field
Minimum 5 years of experience working with Linux distributions
Minimum 5 years of experience with containerization and Kubernetes
Minimum 5 years of experience with cloud native tools and technologies
Minimum 4 years of experience with automation and CI/CD such as GitLab CI
Minimum 3 years of experience with GitOps tooling such as ArgoCD
Minimum 3 years of experience with observability tooling such as OpenTelemetry
Minimum 3 years of experience with Python and/or Go
Work experience in innovative environments
Plus: experience with IT solutions in an operational or defense environment
Plus: experience with data science platforms and GPU workloads
Plus: experience with on-premise infrastructure
Plus: experience with container security best practices
Plus: CKAD, CKA and/or CKS certification

Conditions

Temporary appointment with prospect of permanent employment
38-hour working week, with salary based on a full working week
Individual choice budget (IKB) of 16.33% of gross annual salary, usable for payout, extra leave or tax purposes
Pension scheme with ABP plus monthly commuting allowance or public transport subscription with unlimited travel throughout the Netherlands
Study facilities and room to develop yourself and grow within the organization
Security investigation, reference check and assessment may form part of the selection procedure
Salary grading is based on your work experience and educational background

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