Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer

STAFIDE; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

STAFIDE is seeking a Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer to manage and scale a large enterprise CI/CD platform across Azure, Kubernetes, and on-prem environments. You will implement IaC with Ansible, support automated onboarding of development teams, and drive improvements in reliability, security, and performance.

You will develop automation using Go/Golang, maintain COTS integrations, and provide L2 support for critical business applications.

Qualifications

• 6–8 years in DevOps, Platform/Infrastructure Eng.
• 3+ years hands-on operations experience.
• Strong cloud and Kubernetes expertise.

Responsibilities

• Support and maintain enterprise CI/CD platform.
• Manage and maintain CI/CD tooling for automated onboarding.
• Develop automation and CI/CD pipelines with Go/Cobra principles.
• Maintain Linux-based environments and IaC (Ansible).
• Provide L2 support for critical applications and incidents.

Skills

Go/Golang

Kubernetes (K8s)

Azure

CI/CD pipelines

DevOps practices

SecDevOps

Linux administration

Incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Ansible Tower

Nexus Repository Manager

Nexus Lifecycle

Fortify

SonarQube

Azure DevOps

Confluence

NeoLoad

Job description

As a Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer, you will:

• Support and maintain a CI/CD platform used by a large-scale IT engineering organization.
  
• Manage and maintain CI/CD tooling, supporting automated and self-service onboarding of development teams.
  
• Work with Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes (K8s), Ansible Tower, CI tools, and software artifact repositories.
  
• Develop and maintain automation and CI/CD pipelines following DevOps and SecDevOps principles.
  
• Develop and maintain solutions using Go/Golang as a core development skill.
  
• Support the infrastructure underpinning CI/CD tooling across cloud and on-premises environments.
  
• Install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) applications on cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
  
• Provide L2 support for critical business applications and technical issues.
  
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, operating system, application, and network-related issues and drive incidents through to resolution.
  
• Administer and maintain Linux-based environments, including operating-system-level configuration and administration.
  
• Implement infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), including Ansible playbooks.
  
• Support infrastructure alignment, standardization, and operational improvements across the development tooling environment.
  
• Collaborate with DevOps and engineering teams to resolve issues related to CI/CD platforms and development tooling.
  
• Manage incidents and implement infrastructure and application changes in accordance with agreed SLAs.
  
• Contribute to automation and self-service capabilities that simplify the onboarding and usage of development tooling.
  
• Work with technologies such as Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Nexus Lifecycle, Fortify, Nexus Repository Manager, Confluence, Ansible Tower, and NeoLoad.
  
• Continuously improve the reliability, security, scalability, and usability of the CI/CD platform.
  

What You Bring to the Table:

• 6–8 years of overall professional experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles.
  
• Minimum 3 years of hands‑on Operations/Infrastructure Engineering experience.
  
• Strong hands‑on foundation in cloud infrastructure, particularly Microsoft Azure.
  
• Strong experience with Kubernetes (K8s).
  
• Strong expertise in Go/Golang.
  
• Hands‑on experience creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
  
• Strong understanding of DevOps and SecDevOps principles.
  
• Experience with Ansible and Infrastructure as Code, including Ansible playbooks.
  
• Experience with Ansible Tower is advantageous.
  
• Strong understanding of Linux operating systems, particularly system administration and operational support.
  
• Experience providing L2 support for critical business applications and production issues.
  
• Experience installing, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting COTS applications in cloud and/or on-premises environments.
  
• Experience with infrastructure and application automation.
  
• Experience troubleshooting network hardware and software‑related issues.
  
• Experience managing incidents and implementing technical changes according to SLA requirements.
  
• Experience with CI tooling and software artifact repositories is advantageous.
  
• Knowledge of PostgreSQL or other relational databases is advantageous.
  
• Experience with Azure DevOps and related development tooling is advantageous.
  

You should possess the ability to:

• Operate and maintain Azure and Kubernetes-based infrastructure supporting enterprise CI/CD platforms.
  
• Develop automation and tooling using Go/Golang.
  
• Design, implement, and maintain reliable CI/CD pipelines.
  
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Ansible and IaC practices.
  
• Administer and troubleshoot Linux environments at the operating-system level.
  
• Provide effective L2 operational support for critical business applications and infrastructure.
  
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, application, network, and platform issues and perform root‑cause analysis.
  
• Install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot COTS applications across cloud and on‑premises environments.
  
• Automate repetitive operational activities and develop self‑service capabilities.
  
• Apply SecDevOps and security‑by‑design principles throughout the development and deployment lifecycle.
  
• Manage incidents, changes, and operational activities within defined SLAs.
  
• Collaborate effectively with development, DevOps, infrastructure, and platform teams.
  
• Learn and expand knowledge of enterprise CI/CD platforms and development tooling while supporting engineering teams.
  
• Identify opportunities for standardization, automation, reliability, and operational improvement.
  

What we bring to the table:

• The opportunity to work on a large-scale enterprise CI/CD and development tooling platform.
  
• Exposure to a broad technology landscape including Azure, Kubernetes, Go, Ansible, Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Nexus, Fortify, and other DevOps tooling.
  
• Opportunities to work across cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, automation, CI/CD, SecDevOps, and infrastructure as code.
  
• The opportunity to support and improve platforms used by a large community of IT engineers.
  
• Collaboration with experienced DevOps, infrastructure, platform, and development teams.
  
• Opportunities to contribute to self-service onboarding, automation, infrastructure standardization, and continuous improvement.
  

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