Senior DevOps Engineer

Talcom; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 vacation days

Flexible working hours

Professional development

Company events

Job summary

Talcom is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer based in the Netherlands to improve reliability, scalability, and efficiency of software delivery and infrastructure. You will build and maintain cloud infrastructure, optimize deployment processes, and establish GitOps across multi-environment setups.

The role requires enterprise-scale infrastructure experience, collaboration with software engineers, and a focus on security, automation, and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• Experience managing enterprise-scale infrastructure and deployments.
• Ability to design and implement scalable, reliable cloud infrastructure.
• Experience improving CI/CD processes and GitOps practices.
• Proficiency with AWS services (EC2, EKS, S3, IAM, VPC) and security.
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and observability stacks (Grafana/Prometheus/CloudWatch).
• Strong automation, IaC (Terraform), and Kubernetes (Helm) skills.

Responsibilities

• Advise on and improve CI/CD processes to support efficient and reliable software delivery.
• Develop and maintain GitOps practices for infrastructure and application deployments.
• Manage and optimise existing cloud infrastructure and environments.
• Identify infrastructure maintenance requirements and proactively address potential reliability issues.
• Design scalable, maintainable infrastructure solutions that support development teams.
• Improve consistency between customer environments and internal infrastructure templates.
• Manage and support API deployments across internal and customer environments.
• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging and observability solutions.
• Investigate complex technical incidents, perform root cause analysis and implement long-term solutions.
• Maintain quality and security standards across testing, code coverage, dependency management and security scanning.
• Strengthen infrastructure security through appropriate cloud security practices and automation.
• Support AI/ML infrastructure requirements, including compute clusters and collaboration between development and data teams.
• Help maintain agreed service levels and operational standards.
• Participate in an on-call rotation for critical incidents when required.

Skills

AWS

CI/CD

Kubernetes

GitOps

Programming (Java/Python/Go)

Cloud security

FinOps

Monitoring/observability

Incident response

Tools

GitLab CI

Argo CD

Terraform

Helm

Grafana

Prometheus

CloudWatch

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Kafka

Java

Python

Go

Job description

Candidates must already be based in the Netherlands. Relocation is not offered for this position.

• Amsterdam, hybrid working (2–3 days per week in the office)
• Salary: €80,000–€110,000 gross per year (including 8% holiday allowance)

About the company

Our client is an established technology company operating within the financial technology and cybersecurity space. They develop advanced software solutions for major enterprise customers, with a strong focus on security, reliability and the protection of digital services.

With a growing international customer base and increasingly complex infrastructure requirements, the organisation is continuing to invest in its engineering capabilities and strengthen its technical teams.

You’ll be joining a highly technical environment where engineering quality, automation, scalability and operational excellence are central to the business.

About the role

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will play a key role in improving the reliability, scalability and efficiency of the company's software delivery and infrastructure operations.

Working closely with software engineers and other technical stakeholders, you will help build and maintain robust cloud infrastructure, improve deployment processes and establish reliable automation practices across multiple environments.

The ideal candidate will have experience managing enterprise-scale infrastructure and customer deployments, understanding the challenges involved in maintaining consistency, reliability and performance across different installations.

Responsibilities

• Advise on and improve CI/CD processes to support efficient and reliable software delivery.
• Develop and maintain GitOps practices for infrastructure and application deployments.
• Manage and optimise existing cloud infrastructure and environments.
• Identify infrastructure maintenance requirements and proactively address potential reliability issues.
• Design scalable, maintainable infrastructure solutions that support development teams.
• Improve consistency between customer environments and internal infrastructure templates.
• Manage and support API deployments across internal and customer environments.
• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging and observability solutions.
• Investigate complex technical incidents, perform root cause analysis and implement long-term solutions.
• Maintain quality and security standards across testing, code coverage, dependency management and security scanning.
• Strengthen infrastructure security through appropriate cloud security practices and automation.
• Support AI/ML infrastructure requirements, including compute clusters and collaboration between development and data teams.
• Help maintain agreed service levels and operational standards.
• Participate in an on-call rotation for critical incidents when required.

Technical requirements

• Extensive hands-on experience with AWS, particularly EC2, EKS, S3, IAM and VPC.
• Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitLab CI and Argo CD.
• Good understanding of software development and delivery processes, including version control, code reviews and release management.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus and AWS CloudWatch.
• Experience with Elasticsearch, OpenSearch or similar logging and search platforms.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience, ideally with Terraform.
• Hands-on experience managing Kubernetes environments and deployments using Helm.
• Experience with Apache Kafka and event-driven architectures.
• Software development experience using Java, Python and/or Go.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, IAM and AWS networking.
• Knowledge of FinOps principles and cloud cost optimisation.

What's on offer

• Initial 12-month employment contract, with the intention to extend and potential for a permanent position.
• €80,000–€110,000 gross annual salary, including 8% holiday allowance.
• 25 vacation days per year.
• Flexible working hours and hybrid working arrangements.
• Opportunities for professional development and technical growth.
• A collaborative engineering environment with regular knowledge-sharing sessions and company events.