Senior Automation Engineer

Empiric; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional growth opportunities

High technical ownership

Collaboration with senior engineers

Job summary

A technology consulting firm is seeking a Senior Automation Engineer to design and deliver automation for secure and compliant Digital Sovereign Private Cloud environments. The ideal candidate will work closely with a delivery team, ensuring operational workflows are efficient through CI/CD and GitOps. Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform is essential. This role offers opportunities for professional growth in a challenging and regulated technical domain.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD and GitOps tooling.
• Proven experience designing and operating automation for production environments.
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes and OpenShift concepts.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain CI/CD and GitOps automation.
• Automate provisioning using Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Embed security and compliance into delivery pipelines.

Skills

CI/CD

GitOps

Kubernetes

Red Hat OpenShift

Infrastructure-as-Code

Terraform

Ansible

Problem-solving

Education

Relevant certifications (Cloud, Kubernetes, DevOps)

Tools

GitLab

Jenkins

ArgoCD

Tekton

Job description

As Senior Automation Engineer, you design and deliver automation that enables secure, repeatable and compliant delivery of customer-specific Digital Sovereign Private Cloud environments. You operate at the core of the DevSecOps delivery team, translating customer and platform requirements into automated provisioning, deployment and operational workflows.

You are responsible for building and maintaining CI/CD, GitOps and Infrastructure-as-Code foundations that allow customer environments to be deployed, changed and operated in a controlled, auditable and scalable way. Your work directly determines delivery speed, platform reliability and compliance consistency across customer implementations.

Activities

• Design, build and maintain CI/CD and GitOps-based automation for customer-specific OpenShift platform environments.
• Implement release, configuration and deployment automation using tools such as ArgoCD, Helm, YAML and pipeline frameworks.
• Automate provisioning, configuration and lifecycle management of platform components using Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Embed security scanning, compliance validation, testing and approval flows into delivery pipelines.
• Ensure all automation complies with sovereign, security and compliance baselines defined by the global DSPC platform.
• Implement pipelines that deploy directly into customer environments in a controlled, traceable and auditable manner.
• Support customer acceptance testing, controlled releases and deployment requests.
• Continuously improve automation reliability, observability, error handling and rollback mechanisms.
• Collaborate closely with platform, security and reliability engineers to embed operational standards as code.
• Support audits, security validations and compliance evidence generation through automated controls and reporting.

Characteristics and Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD and GitOps tooling such as GitLab, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Tekton or similar.
• Proven experience designing and operating automation for production-grade environments.
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift platform concepts.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible or similar.
• Experience integrating security, compliance and quality controls into automated delivery pipelines.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on reliability and repeatability.
• Self-driven, detail-oriented team player with a strong DevSecOps mindset.

Additional Skills & Experience

• Experience working in regulated or sovereign environments.
• Familiarity with audit requirements and evidence generation through automation.
• Experience designing self-service workflows and developer-facing automation interfaces.
• Ability to balance delivery speed with security, compliance and operational control.
• Experience collaborating with distributed platform or supplier teams.

Profile

• Strong IT background with focus on automation, cloud-native platforms and DevSecOps practices.
• Relevant experience in automation or platform delivery roles.
• Comfortable operating in customer environments with strict compliance and availability requirements.
• Relevant certifications (Cloud, Kubernetes, DevOps) are a plus.

What We Offer

• A key role in shaping automation for a strategic Digital Sovereign Private Cloud capability.
• High technical ownership with direct impact on delivery speed, quality and compliance.
• Close collaboration with senior architects, platform and security engineers.
• Exposure to complex, regulated customer environments and large-scale automation challenges.
• Strong opportunities for professional growth in a technically demanding DevSecOps domain.