Senior DevOps Engineer — Scale a Global Travel Platform

Polarsteps; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 84,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

MacBook provided

30 days vacation

Pension plan

Equity SAR Plan

Annual travel benefit

Office in Amsterdam

Job summary

Polarsteps, an Amsterdam-based travel platform, seeks a DevOps Engineer to own the day-to-day operations of our AWS stack and support all engineering teams. You will keep infrastructure reliable, scalable and secure, while refining deployment, observability and incident response.

You’ll collaborate with Platform and engineering leads to automate, improve tooling, and drive best practices, with a hybrid work setup and ample opportunities for personal growth.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a DevOps Engineer, SRE or Platform Engineer.
• Experience automating infrastructure and processes on AWS.
• Fluency in shell scripting, Python and Terraform / OpenTofu.
• Experience monitoring, troubleshooting and scaling a similar stack (Python, PostgreSQL/RDS) under growing load.
• Comfort making changes to backend code when automation calls for it.
• A pragmatic mindset: you know when to cut corners and when to build something that lasts.
• Clear communication with technical and non-technical people, helping them reach decisions on complex trade-offs.
• Autonomy and a collaborative nature. You're happy setting up your own processes while working with everyone.
• Knowledgeable of platform security best practices.

Responsibilities

• Own the day-to-day operations of our AWS stack, including S3 and PostgreSQL databases.
• Spot bottlenecks in architecture and scaling; create and execute a plan with Engineering and stakeholders.
• Review, improve and maintain observability, monitoring and alerting.
• Manage and respond to incidents, and keep infrastructure and troubleshooting docs up to date.
• Strengthen platform security and privacy alongside the external security lead.
• Lead initiatives like rolling out company-wide SSO and managing our VPN.
• Support the Data team with the infrastructure behind our analytics stack.

Skills

AWS automation

Shell scripting

Python

Terraform/OpenTofu

Observability/Monitoring

Incident management

Security best practices

Communication

Autonomy & collaboration

Backend code changes

Tools

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

ECS

Nix

RabbitMQ

Traces/observability tooling

Job description

Polarsteps, an Amsterdam-based travel platform, seeks a DevOps Engineer to own the day-to-day operations of our AWS stack and support all engineering teams. You will keep infrastructure reliable, scalable and secure, while refining deployment, observability and incident response.

You’ll collaborate with Platform and engineering leads to automate, improve tooling, and drive best practices, with a hybrid work setup and ample opportunities for personal growth.