DevOps / Platform Engineer

Stafide; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Stafide is seeking an experienced DevOps / Platform Engineer to optimize blue-green deployment readiness and production validation. You will work with application teams to understand hosting, pipelines, infrastructure, networking and dependencies, while refining CI/CD and IaC practices.

The role emphasizes hands-on Kubernetes, Terraform, and deployment tooling, with a focus on secure, observable and minimally disruptive production operations across a large-scale environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in DevOps, Platform Engineering or similar roles.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes platforms (e.g., EKS).
• Experience with Helm, ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts or similar tools.
• Strong AWS networking knowledge (Route 53, load balancers, ingress).
• Proficient in at least two CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps).
• IaC with Terraform; blue-green deployment, release management and rollback.

Responsibilities

• Assess production environments and deploy processes to support blue-green deployments.
• Discuss hosting, deployment workflows, infrastructure and dependencies with teams.
• Review CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, VMs, load balancers, ingress and gateways.
• Document architecture, integrations and database dependencies.
• Design traffic-splitting strategies for testing new versions with minimal disruption.
• Build Green environments using Terraform and IaC tooling.
• Configure traffic routing through load balancers, ingress, Route 53 and gateways.
• Enhance pipelines for automated deployments, validation, rollback and release management.
• Implement monitoring, logging and alerting to validate health and success.
• Support database releases, migrations and backward-compatible changes.
• Collaborate with leads to ensure production readiness.

Skills

Kubernetes

Helm

ArgoCD

Argo Rollouts

CI/CD tools

Terraform

Python/Bash scripting

Monitoring/logging tools

Tools

Amazon EKS

Job description

As a DevOps / Platform Engineer, you will:

• Assess existing production environments and deployment processes to support Blue-Green deployment implementation.
• Conduct technical discussions with application teams to understand application hosting, deployment workflows, infrastructure, network routing, and system dependencies.
• Review existing CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes environments, virtual machines, load balancers, ingress controllers, and gateway configurations.
• Document application architecture, integrations, interfaces, and dependencies between applications and shared databases.
• Identify opportunities to split traffic between existing and new application versions while ensuring minimal disruption to production services.
• Build and configure Green environments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform.
• Configure traffic routing for test users through load balancers, ingress controllers, Route 53, and gateway rules.
• Enhance CI/CD pipelines to support automated deployments, validation, rollback, and release management.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting to validate application health and deployment success.
• Support database release activities, including migrations, backward-compatible schema changes, and rollback procedures.
• Work closely with the Lead Architect and application teams to implement the designed solution and ensure production readiness.

What You Bring to the Table:

• 6+ years of overall experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or related infrastructure and deployment engineering roles.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes platforms such as Amazon EKS or equivalent.
• Practical experience with Helm, ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts, or similar deployment management tools.
• Strong knowledge of AWS networking, including load balancers, Route 53, ingress controllers, and traffic routing.
• Experience with at least two CI/CD tools: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or equivalent tools.
• Understanding of Blue-Green deployment strategies, production validation, release management, and rollback mechanisms.
• Basic database deployment knowledge, including schema migrations and backward-compatible changes.
• Scripting experience using Python or Bash.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as AWS CloudWatch, ELK Stack, or Grafana.

You Should Possess the Ability to:

• Analyze existing application environments, deployment pipelines, and infrastructure configurations.
• Identify application dependencies, database connections, integration points, and potential deployment risks.
• Assess the feasibility of Blue-Green deployments across applications and infrastructure components.
• Design and implement traffic-splitting strategies for controlled testing of new application versions.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployment workflows, validation, and rollback procedures.
• Troubleshoot Kubernetes, networking, pipeline, and application deployment issues in production environments.
• Collaborate effectively with architects, developers, infrastructure teams, and application owners.
• Maintain clear technical documentation, assessment findings, implementation plans, and follow-up actions.
• Ensure deployments are reliable, observable, secure, and minimally disruptive to production services.

What We Bring to the Table:

• An opportunity to work on a large-scale enterprise platform engineering initiative.
• Hands-on exposure to Blue-Green deployment assessment, implementation, and production validation.
• The opportunity to build automated deployment environments and modernize CI/CD workflows.
• Collaboration with experienced architects and cross-functional technical teams.
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, infrastructure automation, and advanced deployment strategies.
• An opportunity to contribute to scalable, resilient, and reliable production systems.

Let’s Connect

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