Senior DevOps Engineer

Lever, Inc.; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 84,000 - 123,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive monthly compensation

Fully remote working environment

Flexible working schedule

18 paid vacation working days

Paid sick leave with 5 undocumented de

Health insurance or sports programs

English lessons and sports activities

Charity event participation

Professional development and certs

Conferences and industry events

Job summary

Lever, Inc. is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer based in the Netherlands to own and operate our scalable cloud infrastructure. You will manage production Kubernetes deployments, AWS resources, and CI/CD pipelines, while driving observability and cost efficiency across a fast-growing AdTech/e-commerce platform.

You will collaborate with development teams, build automation, and enhance IaC practices, with a strong emphasis on proactive problem-solving and ownership in a fully remote environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps or SRE roles.
• Proven experience with production systems requiring high availability.
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience in production deployments.
• Strong AWS knowledge across EC2, VPC, S3, IAM.
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools: Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch.
• Scripting skills in Python and/or Bash.
• Knowledge of GitOps and IaC (Terraform).
• Familiarity with CI/CD workflows and automation.

Responsibilities

• Manage, deploy, and maintain containerized apps using Kubernetes in production.
• Manage AWS infrastructure for scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Monitor performance and improve alerting/observability for high availability.
• Streamline CI/CD pipelines and optimize deployment workflows.
• Troubleshoot issues, investigate root causes, and drive incident resolution.
• Improve infrastructure automation and DevOps practices.
• Support cost optimization for EC2 and other resources.
• Contribute to GitOps and IaC initiatives as appropriate.
• Build dashboards with Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

Python

Bash

CI/CD

GitOps

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

OpenSearch

Elastic Stack

Tools

Elasticsearch

Kibana

Elastic Cloud

Job description

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer based in Netherlands.

This role focuses on building and operating reliable, scalable cloud infrastructure for a fast-growing AdTech and e-commerce platform. You’ll take ownership of production infrastructure, containerized applications, deployment workflows, monitoring, and operational reliability. Working primarily with AWS and Kubernetes, you’ll help optimize systems for performance, scalability, availability, and cost efficiency. You’ll partner closely with development teams to improve CI/CD processes and make deployments smoother and more reliable. The role also offers opportunities to strengthen infrastructure automation, observability, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices. You’ll work in a flexible, remote environment where proactive problem-solving and strong ownership are highly valued.

Accountabilities

• Manage, deploy, and maintain containerized applications using Kubernetes in production environments.
• Manage AWS infrastructure across services including EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, RDS, and OpenSearch, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Monitor infrastructure and application performance, maintaining and improving alerting and observability systems to support high availability.
• Collaborate closely with development teams to streamline CI/CD pipelines and optimize deployment workflows.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues, investigate root causes, and drive timely incident resolution.
• Continuously improve infrastructure automation, operational processes, and DevOps best practices.
• Support performance tuning and cost optimization of EC2 instances and other cloud resources.
• Contribute to GitOps and Infrastructure-as-Code practices where appropriate.
• Build and maintain dashboards and monitoring solutions using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and AWS CloudWatch.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering roles.
• Proven experience supporting production systems with high availability and reliability requirements.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration and production deployments.
• Solid understanding of AWS services, particularly EC2, VPC, S3, and IAM.
• Practical experience managing EC2 instances, including performance tuning and cloud cost optimization.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and AWS CloudWatch.
• Strong scripting skills with Python and/or Bash for automation and operational tasks.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities, with a proactive approach to infrastructure reliability.
• Ability to take ownership of infrastructure initiatives while working effectively both independently and within a development team.
• Familiarity with GitOps practices for continuous delivery and infrastructure automation is a plus.
• Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure-as-Code tools is advantageous.
• Advanced Grafana experience, including custom dashboards and visualizations, is beneficial.
• Experience managing AWS RDS instances is a plus.
• Familiarity with the Elastic Stack, including Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Elastic Cloud, is advantageous.
• Experience with AWS OpenSearch for search and analytics use cases is a plus.

Benefits

• Competitive monthly compensation.
• Fully remote working environment.
• Flexible working schedule.
• 18 paid vacation working days.
• Paid sick leave, including 5 undocumented sick days per year.
• Health support through medical insurance or sports programs.
• English lessons and sports activities.
• Opportunities to participate in charity events.
• Professional development support and opportunities to obtain certifications.
• Support for attending conferences and industry events.
• Mac equipment for work.
• Full support with Private Entrepreneur reporting services (ФОП).

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