DevOps Engineer

Nowjobs; Gent; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Office in Ghent

Meal vouchers

Hospitalisation insurance

Expense allowance

Company car + fuel card

Job summary

Nowjobs in Ghent, Belgium, is hiring a DevOps Engineer to maintain the infrastructure that powers our 100% digital staffing platform. You’ll work in a small, impactful team, focusing on Kubernetes and cloud-native tooling to keep the platform resilient and scalable.

You’ll join a hybrid environment with an office in Ghent and flexible working arrangements, contributing to incident response, automation, and tooling improvements.

Qualifications

• Solid, hands-on experience with Linux and Bash in a production environment.
• Strong grasp of networking fundamentals: DNS, load balancers, proxies, web servers.
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience; able to troubleshoot and fix issues beyond deployment.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and update Helm charts and monitor upstream changes.
• Monitor clusters and workloads; respond to alerts before incidents occur.
• Manage secrets, certificates, and access securely and timely.
• Identify and fix security issues; harden infrastructure as needed.
• Own incidents end-to-end: diagnose, fix, document, and prevent recurrence.
• Automate repetitive tasks; reduce manual toil across pipelines and infra.
• Support GitLab pipelines, ArgoCD, and Argo Workflows as needed.
• Collaborate with Platform Engineer on the Internal Developer Portal to improve tooling.

Skills

Linux

Networking

Kubernetes

Tools

ArgoCD

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

Argo Workflows

Go

Job description

Nowjobs is part of House of HR and a 100% digital staffing platform for students, flexi-job workers, and people looking to earn extra income. Since making our debut in the App Store in 2017, our app has been downloaded more than one million times, over 30.000 companies have already found flexible workers through Nowjobs, and nearly 800.000 people have earned extra income through the app!

We're growing fast and internationally too. We're now active in Belgium, the Netherlands and France. In other words: it's high time to expand our amazing team!

Help us grow

Our mission. We want to become the largest, 100% digital staffing platform for flexi's and students in the EU. If we succeed, we'll soon all be living in the Bahamas. At least, that's our dream! The app does it all but without a rock-solid platform running underneath it, day and night, our mission doesn't stand a chance. That's where you come in.

Ambitious? Yes.

Possible? Definitely. Or almost, because we're still looking for an extra DevOps Engineer.

Nowjobs is looking for a DevOps Engineer

A Nowjobber in a few words? Curious, calm under pressure, and never quite satisfied with “it works, don't touch it.” Sounds like you? Keep reading.

You don't need to master every tool in our stack from day one. What matters most is that you're genuinely comfortable in Linux, the terminal, and Kubernetes, and that you've got the instinct to find out why something broke instead of just restarting it and hoping for the best. Azure and the rest of our toolbox, we're happy to teach you, or build further on what you already bring.

Our platform

You'll be working on the infrastructure that keeps the entire Nowjobs platform running.

Here’s a quick look at the tools you’ll get your hands on:

Orchestration: our infrastructure runs on a modern, cloud-native container platform, hosted in the cloud.

Infrastructure as Code: everything is managed declaratively through code, no manual configuration in cloud consoles.

Packaging: we use industry-standard package management to keep deployments consistent across all environments.

CI/CD: fully automated pipelines take code from build to deploy.

GitOps & delivery: we follow GitOps principles, with automated, git-driven delivery and workflow orchestration.

Observability: a modern monitoring and metrics stack keeps us honest about what's really going on.

By joining our team, you'll get hands-on with a modern, cloud-native platform. No legacy systems holding you back.

Your team

You'll join the DevOps team at Nowjobs, working alongside our team lead and a DevOps Engineer who currently focuses on our Internal Developer Platform as Platform Engineer. Together, you'll keep our Kubernetes infrastructure healthy and give the team more room to grow.

Small team, real impact: what you do here is visible, and your input genuinely shapes how we work.

Your responsibilities

• Maintain and update our Helm charts, and keep an eye on upstream changes.
• Monitor our clusters and workloads, and jump on alerts before they turn into real incidents.
• Manage secrets, certificates, and access safely and on time.
• Spot and fix security issues in our infrastructure, and help harden our setup.
• Own incidents end-to-end: figure out what happened, fix it, write it down, make sure it doesn't happen twice.
• Automate the repetitive stuff, so nobody has to do it by hand twice.
• Lend a hand on GitLab pipelines, ArgoCD, and Argo Workflows whenever the team needs backup.
• Team up with our Platform Engineer on our in-house Internal Developer Portal, helping shape the tools the rest of engineering uses every day.

You won't be designing platform architecture on day one but you will understand it, contribute to it, and gradually make it your own.

What we're looking for

Must-haves

• Solid, hands-on experience with Linux and Bash. You’re comfortable in a terminal and can script your way out of repetitive work.
• The right mindset: curious, calm under pressure, and someone who closes the loop instead of just closing the ticket.
• A solid grasp of networking fundamentals. DNS, load balancers, reverse proxies, web servers and how they all fit together when something’s not connecting.
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience. You can troubleshoot nodes, navigate RBAC and networking, and know what to check when a workload misbehaves. Not just deploying apps.

Nice to haves

• ArgoCD / GitOps
• Crossplane, or IaC experience with tools like Terraform
• Argo Workflows, or experience with another workflow orchestrator
• Monitoring tools such as Prometheus & Grafana
• Golang
• Google Cloud

PS: you don't need to tick every box on this list. If you bring the must-haves above, we'll help you grow into the rest.

What can you expect from us?

• A high-ownership role with real infrastructure impact from your first weeks.
• A small team where your work is visible and your input shapes how things are built.
• Hybrid working, with flexibility.

What do we offer?

• An office in Ghent, easily accessible and equipped with parking facilities and bike storage.
• A 40-hour workweek with the flexibility you need, with an average of around 3 days per week working from the office.
• An attractive gross salary, complemented by an expense allowance, company car + fuel card, meal vouchers, and hospitalisation insurance.
• A flexible benefits plan that allows you to tailor your package to your needs (bike, additional holidays, family insurance, etc.).
• A personal development plan and an annual training budget to support your continued growth.
• Internal career opportunities within a fast-growing and scaling organization.
• And of course: office dogs, weekly soup, great coffee and tea, ergonomic desks, and more...

Convinced?

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