Senior Backend/DevOps Engineer

Oakwell Hampton Group; Delft; On-site; EUR 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Oakwell Hampton Group seeks a Senior Backend / DevOps Engineer to own and evolve complex infra. The role blends software engineering, Linux systems and platform operations, across on-premise and cloud environments, with strong ownership of reliability and performance.

You’ll work across backend services and infrastructure, implementing automation, observability and scalable deployment patterns to support demanding workloads.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering foundation with TS and Python.
• Experience with Linux and on-premise infrastructure.
• Background in DevOps, Platform Engineering or SRE.
• Experience building/operating production systems.
• Ability to automate and ensure engineering quality.
• Willing to work across backend and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend services and infrastructure.
• Design and improve Linux-based systems and environments.
• Work with on-premise infrastructure alongside cloud tech.
• Own platform reliability, scalability and performance.
• Improve deployment, automation, observability, and operational processes.

Skills

Typescript

Python

Linux

DevOps

Platform Engineering

SRE

Networking

Automation

Observability

Tools

GCP

Azure

Job description

Salary is DOE - budgets of around €75,000 - €100,000.

We’re working with a technically ambitious Healthcare AI software company that is building and operating complex infrastructure at scale. They’re looking for a Senior Backend / DevOps Engineer who enjoys working close to the infrastructure, solving technically difficult problems, and having genuine ownership over how systems are built and operated.

This is a role for someone who is comfortable moving between software engineering, Linux, infrastructure and platform engineering - rather than someone focused purely on traditional DevOps tooling.

The role

You’ll work across the backend and infrastructure stack, helping build reliable platforms that support demanding workloads.

You’ll be involved in:

• Building and maintaining backend services and infrastructure - Typescript/Python/GCP/Azure
• Designing and improving Linux-based systems and environments
• Working with on-premise infrastructure alongside cloud technologies
• Taking ownership of platform reliability, scalability and performance
• Improving deployment, automation, observability and operational processes

What we're looking for

We’re particularly interested in engineers who have a strong software engineering foundation with Typescript and Python, alongside substantial infrastructure experience.

You’ll ideally have:

• Broader programming experience in one or more additional languages
• Strong knowledge of Linux
• Experience working with on-premise infrastructure
• Experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering or SRE
• A good understanding of networking, systems and infrastructure
• Experience building or operating production systems
• A strong approach to automation and engineering quality
• The ability to investigate problems across the application and infrastructure layers

Highly valued skills:

Experience with GPU infrastructure / GPU servers would be particularly interesting.

You don't necessarily need to have worked specifically with GPUs, but experience with high-performance computing, demanding workloads, large-scale infrastructure or hardware-level troubleshooting would also be relevant.