Mission-Critical Automation Engineer: Build, Run, Optimize

Schuberg Philis; Noord-Holland; On-site; EUR 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Schuberg Philis is seeking an Automation Engineer in the Netherlands to design, build, and run mission-critical platforms with a strong automation mindset. You will own end-to-end automation across the stack, driving secure, high-performance systems and collaborating with customer teams to deliver real impact in critical operations.

The role emphasizes scripting, configuration management, CI/CD, and platform hardening, with ownership of the Plan–Build–Run lifecycle and cross-team learning.

Qualifications

• Strong automation mindset with hands-on scripting and configuration management.
• Hands-on experience with Git and CI/CD practices.
• Experience applying security principles in mission-critical environments.
• Proficient in Infrastructure-as-Code tooling such as Terraform, Bicep, or ARM.
• Ownership mentality, curiosity and analytical thinking to understand and improve system behaviour end-to-end.
• Understanding of networking, database fundamentals, release/deployment lifecycles, and applications.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, run, and improve platforms.
• Automate everything you touch, diagnose and resolve issues across the entire stack.
• Collaborate closely with customer teams, and take full end-to-end ownership of stability, security, and performance.
• Building automation through scripting and configuration management tooling.
• Owning the full Plan–Build–Run lifecycle.
• Solving multi-layer issues across OS, network, DB, security, and apps.
• Designing and executing controlled releases with Git and pipelines.
• Platform-hardening practices.

Skills

PowerShell

Ansible

DSC

Puppet

Chef

Git & CI/CD

Security principles

Infrastructure-as-Code

Ownership mindset

Networking basics

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM

Job description

Schuberg Philis is seeking an Automation Engineer in the Netherlands to design, build, and run mission-critical platforms with a strong automation mindset. You will own end-to-end automation across the stack, driving secure, high-performance systems and collaborating with customer teams to deliver real impact in critical operations.

The role emphasizes scripting, configuration management, CI/CD, and platform hardening, with ownership of the Plan–Build–Run lifecycle and cross-team learning.