Go DevOps Engineer for Nexus Cloud Platform

Nebul; Leiden; On-site; EUR 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Nebul in Leiden is building Europe's sovereign AI cloud. We are shipping Nexus, a Kubernetes-based orchestration and management platform that connects our compute, storage, networking, and datacenter services to customer-facing Cloud Services and AI teams.

As a DevOps Engineer, you will design scalable platform services and APIs in Go, automate cluster provisioning, define clean APIs for customers, and ensure observable, secure, production-ready systems.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering experience in Go.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes and cloud-native platforms.
• Experience building APIs, controllers, operators, or distributed backend services.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and GitOps.
• Experience with asynchronous and event-driven architectures.
• Understanding of cloud services such as compute, networking, object storage, and block storage.
• Experience with authentication, authorisation, RBAC, and multi-tenancy.
• Ownership mindset and ability to turn infrastructure capabilities into scalable platform services.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable platform services, APIs, controllers, and automation in Go.
• Design the foundational architecture of Nexus.
• Create abstractions over Kubernetes, storage, compute, networking, and security services.
• Automate the provisioning and lifecycle management of Kubernetes clusters, S3 storage, block storage, and firewalls.
• Integrate Nexus with the APIs provided by Nebul's Platform and Infrastructure teams.
• Define clean, versioned APIs for customer-facing engineering teams.
• Implement authentication, authorisation, RBAC, tenant isolation, and policy enforcement.
• Build asynchronous workflows for long-running infrastructure operations.
• Ensure all services are observable, resilient, secure, and production-ready.
• Evaluate and integrate open-source components where they accelerate development.
• Take ownership of solutions from architecture through production.

Skills

Go

APIs

Backend services

Event-driven

Ownership mindset

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitOps

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Nebul in Leiden is building Europe's sovereign AI cloud. We are shipping Nexus, a Kubernetes-based orchestration and management platform that connects our compute, storage, networking, and datacenter services to customer-facing Cloud Services and AI teams.

As a DevOps Engineer, you will design scalable platform services and APIs in Go, automate cluster provisioning, define clean APIs for customers, and ensure observable, secure, production-ready systems.