DevOps Engineer

Objective Platform; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary based on experience

25 holiday days per year + Celebration

Pension plan (NN)

Personal development budget

Mobility allowance

ClassPass wellness benefit

Hybrid working

Office lunch

Job summary

Objective Platform, a Amsterdam-based tech company, is hiring a DevOps Engineer to own and enhance the infrastructure and deployment processes for a cutting-edge marketing analytics platform.

You’ll collaborate with development and operations teams to ensure reliable, scalable, and secure delivery. The role emphasizes automation, observability, and continuous improvement within a hybrid work model.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of hands-on experience in a DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Infrastructure role.
• Solid Linux system administration, networking, and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong experience managing cloud infrastructure in production, with a preference for GCP.
• Hands-on IaC experience using Terraform to provision and manage cloud resources.
• Experience building and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines (TeamCity, GitLab CI, Jenkins).
• Familiarity with modern observability stacks (OpenTelemetry, Datadog).
• Scripting proficiency (Python, Bash) for automation.

Responsibilities

• Manage Cloud Infrastructure, focusing on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Build & Maintain CI/CD pipelines for secure software delivery.
• Drive automation of deployment processes and infra management.
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Monitor system health, analyze metrics, and manage incident response.
• Enforce security standards across deployment processes and cloud infra.
• Continuously learn and apply modern DevOps tools and methodologies.

Skills

English communication

Autonomy

Linux administration

SRE mindset

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

TeamCity

GitLab CI

Jenkins

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

Python

Bash

Job description

As a DevOps Engineer at O|P, you'll play a crucial role in supporting, owning, and enhancing our infrastructure and deployment processes. You'll work closely with our development and operations teams to ensure the smooth, efficient, and secure delivery of our cutting-edge marketing analytics platform.

About Objective Platform:

Our culture and values:

Our culture can be described as a social start-up, with the financial benefits of a scale-up. Open and transparent, we are a developing team and organization who are open for feedback and are true team players. With EQ & IQ in balance, we put our egos aside, work hard and proactively help each other out. We’re passionate about working together to reach our set targets & KPIs, and we’re proud of the fact that we house more than 15 nationalities.

Our company values, which can be seen as our behavioral compass, support us in our daily interaction and decision making with our peers and customers. We are: #Innovative #Data Driven #Transparent #Ambitious #Collaborative

The role in a nutshell:

Responsibilities:

As the key driver of our DevOps operations, you will:

• Manage Cloud Infrastructure: Assist in configuring, maintaining, and improving our cloud environments, primarily focusing on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Build & Maintain CI/CD Pipelines: Implement and maintain robust continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines to ensure smooth and secure software delivery.
• Drive Automation: Automate manual deployment processes and infrastructure management to maximize team efficiency.
• Collaborate for Scalability: Work side-by-side with development teams to optimize the application performance, reliability, and scalability of our marketing analytics platform.
• Ensure System Reliability: Monitor overall system health, analyze metrics, and manage incident response to minimize downtime.
• Enforce Security Standards: Integrate and enforce security best practices and compliance frameworks across our deployment processes and cloud infrastructure.
• Continuously Learn & Innovate: Evaluate and apply modern DevOps principles, tools, and methodologies in a fast-paced, real-world setting.

Requirements:

• Experience: 2-4 years of hands-on experience in a DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Cloud Infrastructure role.
• Linux / OS: Solid hands-on experience with Linux system administration, networking, and troubleshooting.
• Cloud Platforms: Proven experience managing cloud infrastructure in production, with a strong preference for Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Containerization: Strong practical experience with containerization and container orchestration technologies, specifically Docker and Kubernetes.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Hands-on experience using IaC tools (e.g., Terraform) to provision and manage cloud resources.
• CI/CD: Experience building and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines (e.g., TeamCity, GitLab CI, Jenkins).
• Observability: Familiarity with modern monitoring, logging, and alerting stacks (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Datadog).
• Scripting: Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) for automation and tooling.
• Autonomy: Ability to work independently, take ownership of the infrastructure, and proactively solve problems.
• Soft Skills: Strong attention to detail and excellent communication skills in English.

Preferred:

• Familiarity with data-intensive environments and scaling databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, BigQuery).
• Basic understanding of data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR) and compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC2, ISO27001).
• Understanding of cloud networking (VPCs, DNS, load balancing) and cloud cost optimization (FinOps).

Why us?

• We are a young Amsterdam-based tech company with smart, educated people who have a passion for their field of expertise.
• We are output-driven, which creates freedom and responsibility.
• An opportunity to implement our cutting-edge solution used by industry-leading clients to optimise large marketing investments.
• A place within a team of young experts that learn from each other.
• The chance to work at a fast-growing company with a unique mix of local and international clients.

What we offer (Objective Perks):

• A competitive salary based on your experience.
• 25 holiday days per year (based on a full-time contract) as well as a day of Celebration Leave, which can be used to celebrate events not covered by the Dutch public holidays.
• A great pension plan with NN.
• A generous annual personal development budget and a training budget.
• A mobility allowance (if you live more than 10km away from the office).
• A health and wellness benefit in the form of company discounted subscriptions to ClassPass.
• A positive, encouraging work environment with an open/flat culture.
• A team of smart, young, motivated and ambitious colleagues to work alongside you.
• An international environment, diverse with 15+ nationalities.
• A daily healthy lunch at the office for a small monthly contribution.
• A flexible approach to working facilitated through hybrid working.
• Regular social activities and an annual weekend trip (in the past we have gone skiing, sailing and surfing).