Senior DevOps Engineer

Team: IT

Location: Netherlands

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities:

• Manage, deploy, and maintain containerized applications using Kubernetes in production environments.
• Manage AWS infrastructure across services including EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, RDS, and OpenSearch, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Monitor infrastructure and application performance, maintaining and improving alerting and observability systems to support high availability.
• Collaborate closely with development teams to streamline CI/CD pipelines and optimize deployment workflows.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues, investigate root causes, and drive timely incident resolution.
• Continuously improve infrastructure automation, operational processes, and DevOps best practices.
• Support performance tuning and cost optimization of EC2 instances and other cloud resources.
• Contribute to GitOps and Infrastructure-as-Code practices where appropriate.
• Build and maintain dashboards and monitoring solutions using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and AWS CloudWatch.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering roles.
• Proven experience supporting production systems with high availability and reliability requirements.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration and production deployments.
• Solid understanding of AWS services, particularly EC2, VPC, S3, and IAM.
• Practical experience managing EC2 instances, including performance tuning and cloud cost optimization.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and AWS CloudWatch.
• Strong scripting skills with Python and/or Bash for automation and operational tasks.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities, with a proactive approach to infrastructure reliability.
• Ability to take ownership of infrastructure initiatives while working effectively both independently and within a development team.
• Familiarity with GitOps practices for continuous delivery and infrastructure automation is a plus.
• Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure-as-Code tools is advantageous.
• Advanced Grafana experience, including custom dashboards and visualizations, is beneficial.
• Experience managing AWS RDS instances is a plus.
• Familiarity with the Elastic Stack, including Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Elastic Cloud, is advantageous.
• Experience with AWS OpenSearch for search and analytics use cases is a plus.

Benefits:

• Competitive monthly compensation.
• Fully remote working environment.
• Flexible working schedule.
• 18 paid vacation working days.
• Paid sick leave, including 5 undocumented sick days per year.
• Health support through medical insurance or sports programs.
• English lessons and sports activities.
• Opportunities to participate in charity events.
• Professional development support and opportunities to obtain certifications.
• Support for attending conferences and industry events.
• Mac equipment for work.
• Full support with Private Entrepreneur reporting services (ФОП).