DevOps Engineer Expert, Amsterdam (on-site) – International Client

TheWhiteam; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 93,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

TheWhiteam is seeking a DevOps Engineer with 3–5 years of professional experience to design, implement, and optimize modern DevOps practices and cloud-native environments. You will build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automate infrastructure, and manage containerized workloads across AWS and Kubernetes.

Ideal candidates have a certified engineering background, C1 English, and experience with observability, security, backup, and disaster recovery.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of professional DevOps experience required.
• Engineering degree or equivalent certified qualification.
• English level C1 is mandatory.
• Valid DevOps certification (e.g., AWS DevOps Engineer Professional or Microsoft DevOps Expert).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage deployments across cloud and Kubernetes environments.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and config management.
• Administer AWS cloud services and Linux-based platforms.
• Maintain containerized environments with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Monitor performance, availability, and reliability with observability tools.
• Troubleshoot incidents and perform RCA with corrective actions.
• Collaborate with development and infra teams to improve deployment processes.
• Support security, backup, and disaster recovery initiatives.
• Create and maintain technical docs and procedures.
• Contribute to continuous DevOps improvements and platform stability.

Skills

DevOps practices

CI/CD implementation

Kubernetes administration

AWS cloud

Scripting: Bash/Python

Linux administration

Observability tools

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

Grafana

Prometheus

ELK Stack

Splunk

Docker

Kubernetes

Bash

Python

PowerShell

Job description

DESCRIPTION

We are seeking a DevOps Engineer with 3 to 5 years of professional experience to support the design, implementation, and optimization of modern DevOps practices and cloud-native environments. The successful candidate will be responsible for building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automating infrastructure, managing containerized workloads, and ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of cloud platforms.

Job role

DevOps Engineer Expert.

Minimum experience

3 to 5 years.

Studies required

Certified engineer.

Language

English (C1) (Mandatory).

Location

Amsterdam (on-site).

DESCRIPTION

We are seeking a DevOps Engineer with 3 to 5 years of professional experience to support the design, implementation, and optimization of modern DevOps practices and cloud-native environments. The successful candidate will be responsible for building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automating infrastructure, managing containerized workloads, and ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of cloud platforms.

Tasks

• Design, develop, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage application deployments across cloud and Kubernetes environments.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management.
• Administer and support AWS cloud services and Linux-based platforms.
• Manage and maintain containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Monitor system performance, availability, and reliability using observability tools.
• Troubleshoot incidents and production issues, performing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and implementing corrective actions.
• Collaborate with development and infrastructure teams to improve deployment processes and operational efficiency.
• Support security, backup, and disaster recovery initiatives.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and best practices.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of DevOps processes and platform stability.

Specific Expertise

Required Qualifications

• Engineering degree or equivalent certified engineering qualification.
• Valid DevOps-related certification, such as:
• Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert, or
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.
• English level C1 (mandatory).
• 3 to 5 years of relevant professional experience in DevOps engineering.

Technical Skills

• DevOps practices and CI/CD implementation.
• AWS cloud platforms and services.
• Kubernetes administration and orchestration.
• Docker containerization technologies.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• CI/CD tools including Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Azure DevOps.
• Monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, ELK Stack, and Splunk.
• Scripting and automation using Bash, Python, or PowerShell.
• Linux system administration and troubleshooting.

Additional Experience

• Experience working with European Institutions and/or public sector organizations (minimum of 4 years).
• Knowledge of security, backup, and disaster recovery processes.
• Experience operating and supporting production environments with high availability requirements.

Language

• English (C1).

Location

• Amsterdam (on-site).

Rate

• 592€/day.