DevOps Engineer - Contractor

CoinMarketCap; Zoetermeer; On-site; EUR 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cryptocurrency analytics platform based in the Netherlands is seeking a skilled Cloud Operations Engineer to optimize cloud architectures and automate operations. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and at least 3 years of experience in DevOps. Responsibilities include designing CI/CD pipelines and managing AWS environments. Strong programming skills and familiarity with Terraform and monitoring tools are essential for success in this role.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Cloud Operations, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Strong familiarity with cloud-native principles and container technologies.
• Experience with monitoring and observability solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and optimize secure cloud architectures on AWS.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines for improved release frequency and quality.
• Automate operational tasks through scripting and automation tools.

Skills

AWS core services (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, EKS/ECS)

Automation programming (Shell, Python, Go)

CI/CD pipeline design and maintenance (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD)

Infrastructure as Code with Terraform

Observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Loki)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

AWS CloudFront

Job description

Responsibilities

• Cloud Infrastructure Design & Operations: Design, build, and optimize highly available and secure cloud architectures on AWS
• CI/CD Pipeline Development: Design and maintain end-to-end pipelines from code commit to deployment — including build, test, artifact management, release, and rollback — to improve release frequency and quality
• Operations Automation: Reduce manual toil through programming and automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, custom scripts/platforms) to automate configuration management, change execution, and incident response
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Manage AWS cloud resources and network configurations using Terraform to ensure environment consistency, auditability, and reproducibility
• CDN Operations: Configure, monitor, tune, and troubleshoot AWS CDN services to ensure acceleration and availability of static assets and streaming media
• Monitoring, Alerting & Observability: Build and maintain monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing systems to enable rapid issue identification and drive capacity and performance optimization

Requirements

• Education & Experience:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Telecommunications, or a related field
  • 3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Cloud Operations, or Infrastructure Engineering
• Cloud Platform:
  • Proficient with AWS: hands-on experience with core services including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, EKS/ECS
  • Solid understanding of cloud-native principles; familiar with containers (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes or AWS EKS managed service), service mesh, and serverless technologies
• CI/CD:
  • Proficient in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD)
  • Familiar with pipeline design principles: multi-environment management, branching strategies, artifact management, blue‑green/canary deployments, and rollback mechanisms
• Observability:
  • Experience building and optimizing monitoring stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Loki
• Operations Automation & Programming:
  • Strong automation programming skills: proficient in at least one scripting/programming language (e.g., Shell, Python, Go) for writing automation scripts and tools
  • Able to design automation solutions for operational scenarios and integrate with existing monitoring, ticketing, and configuration management systems
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
  • Proficient with Terraform: able to manage AWS resources with modular design and proven hands‑on experience
  • Familiarity with Ansible for configuration management and batch operations (e.g., system initialization, application deployment, configuration distribution)
• CDN Operations:
  • Hands‑on CDN operations experience: familiar with AWS CloudFront configuration, caching strategies, domain and certificate management
  • Able to perform bandwidth/traffic and cost analysis, origin optimization, troubleshooting, and SLA assurance
• Soft Skills:
  • Strong documentation habits, communication, collaboration, and ability to drive initiatives across teams
  • Solid problem analysis and post‑mortem skills; able to participate in or lead root cause analysis and drive improvement actions