Senior DevOps Engineer – FinTech Platform (Azure/K8s)

Gazelle Global; Amstelveen; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Gazelle Global in Amsterdam, Netherlands seeks an experienced DevOps Engineer to develop and extend the platform of the existing payment engine, APIs, and microservices. You will focus on automation, deployments, and full-stack observability across cloud-native environments.

You will own Linux (RHEL) operations, enhance monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, OTEL, and ELK, and collaborate in an Agile/Scrum setup to deliver reliable and scalable platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience in a DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Linux Engineering role.
• Strong hands-on experience with automation tools such as Ansible.
• Strong Linux administration experience, preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
• Cloud and CI/CD experience with Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Actions/Pipelines.
• Monitoring & Observability experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry (OTEL), ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana).
• Experience with production monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing, root cause analysis, and incident management.
• Strong knowledge of networking fundamentals and troubleshooting in distributed environments.
• Experience with CI/CD and DevSecOps tooling such as Git, Azure DevOps, GitHub, SonarQube, Checkmarx.
• Experience with virtualization and container technologies such as VMware, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, or OpenStack.
• Ability to automate deployments, releases, and operational activities using Python, Shell scripting, and Ansible.
• Passion for technology, continuous improvement, and automation.
• Strong analytical skills, proactive mindset, and willingness to share knowledge with others.
• Ability to organize, coach, and motivate team members.
• Excellent soft skills: communicative, friendly, collaborative, curious, and eager to learn.
• Good understanding of REST APIs and service integrations.
• Good understanding of DevOps, SRE, Reliability Engineering, and Observability concepts
• Knowledge and understanding of Database and RDBMS concepts.

Responsibilities

• Responsibility for the DevOps platform. You automate relentlessly: manage configuration via Ansible, deploy through Azure DevOps and GitHub pipelines, and automate repetitive tasks.
• Have a complete picture of Deployments, Operations, Production Support, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Backup & Restore, Security Monitoring, and Full Stack Observability.
• Take ownership of Linux (RHEL) platform operations, ensuring stability, performance, security, and continuous improvement.
• Improve application and platform monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry (OTEL), ELK Stack, and agreed alerting standards.
• Analyze logs, metrics, traces, and telemetry data to identify issues, performance bottlenecks, and reliability risks.
• Support High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) testing activities.
• Implement and work with the latest tooling, focusing on automation, performance, stability, observability, and security.
• Take ownership of lifecycle management of platform components including Operating Systems, Middleware, Certificates, User Access Management, Vulnerability Remediation, Security Patching.
• Find opportunities to automate existing features, operational processes, deployments, monitoring, alerting, and security controls.
• Understand the root cause of incidents, recurring issues, and service gaps, and propose sustainable solutions.

Skills

Soft skills

Analytical thinking

Proactive mindset

Strong communication

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor/Master degree in CS or related

Tools

Ansible

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

OTEL

ELK Stack

Git

SonarQube

Checkmarx

VMware

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

OpenStack

Python

Shell scripting

Job description

Gazelle Global in Amsterdam, Netherlands seeks an experienced DevOps Engineer to develop and extend the platform of the existing payment engine, APIs, and microservices. You will focus on automation, deployments, and full-stack observability across cloud-native environments.

You will own Linux (RHEL) operations, enhance monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, OTEL, and ELK, and collaborate in an Agile/Scrum setup to deliver reliable and scalable platforms.