Senior DevOps Engineer

Talcom is recruiting a Senior DevOps Engineer for a growing technology company operating in the cybersecurity space.

We are looking for an experienced DevOps or Platform Engineer who has worked with complex, enterprise-scale infrastructure and is comfortable taking ownership of cloud environments, deployment processes, reliability and automation.

This is a hands-on engineering role with a strong focus on AWS, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD and cloud-native operations.

The Role

You will work closely with software engineering and data teams to build, maintain and improve scalable infrastructure and deployment environments.

Key responsibilities include:

Design, maintain and improve AWS-based infrastructure

Build and optimise CI/CD and GitOps workflows

Manage Kubernetes environments and application deployments

Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code

Improve system reliability, scalability and availability

Implement monitoring, logging and observability solutions

Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and perform root cause analysis

Support deployments across internal and customer environments

Maintain infrastructure security and cloud IAM standards

Support compute infrastructure used by engineering and AI/ML workloads

Identify infrastructure maintenance requirements proactively

Participate in an on-call rotation for critical incidents

Technical Requirements

We are looking for strong hands-on experience with:

AWS, particularly EC2, EKS, S3, IAM and VPC

Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code tooling

GitLab CI and/or Argo CD

GitOps practices

Grafana, Prometheus and/or AWS CloudWatch

Elasticsearch and/or OpenSearch

Cloud networking and security

Linux-based infrastructure

Experience with the following is highly valuable:

Apache Kafka and event-driven architectures

Java, Python or Go

AWS cost optimisation / FinOps

AI/ML compute infrastructure

What We Are Looking For

You should be comfortable independently troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues and designing solutions that can be maintained and used by multiple engineering teams.

Previous experience operating production infrastructure at enterprise scale is particularly important.

You should also be comfortable communicating technical decisions, documenting infrastructure clearly and working across engineering teams.

Location

The role is based in Amsterdam and follows a hybrid working model, with approximately 2-3 days per week in the office.

Package

€80,000 - €110,000 gross annual salary

8% holiday allowance included in the annual salary

Initial 12-month employment contract with the intention to extend and potentially move to a permanent contract

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