Senior DevOps Engineer

We are looking for

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in IT with a focus on operations, maintenance, and life cycle management. This role demands a proactive individual with an "automate everything" mindset to drive efficiency and innovation.

With the following outcomes (SMART):

Your day starts with a standup with the whole team. Your day-to-day work will vary from OPS duty items, think incidents that need to be solved. To sitting in meetings to gather requirements for items you will need to pick up.

You will need to be able to configure and think outside the box on how to maintain and efficiently utilize our YML pipelines. Automate where things can be automated.

Since our detection system needs specific monitoring, you will be expected to pitch in to enhance our monitoring from certificate updates to loss of incoming data. With your Java skill set you will also be expected to enhance our infrastructure together with your teammates and the Grid.

More in specific:

• Lifecycle management: updating software to make sure we always have releases that are within support and with the latest vulnerabilities fixed. Example: continuously upgrading software like Grafana, Telegraf, Java JVMs/JDKs to latest versions and automating that process.
• Operations work: pro-active monitoring of our infrastructure, making sure everything stays up and running and improving the observability whenever possible. Example: adding new dashboards in Grafana or adding alerts on things as an improvement after previous incidents, ie, making sure these incidents don't happen again without us knowing it in advance and being able to act on it.
• Solving technical debt/increasing automation: getting rid of technical debt and implementing solutions that are optimized for maintainability and robustness. Example: all infrastructure-as-code and automating manual tasks (like certificate creation, patching pipelines, etc.).

Every two weeks you will have a sprint review with the whole grid and a retro with the team. Twice a week you will have a refinement session with the team.

You will:

• Configure and maintain YML pipelines.
• Enhance monitoring systems.
• Contribute to infrastructure enhancements.
• Perform life cycle management of software.
• Proactively monitor infrastructure.
• Solve technical debt and increase automation.

Responsibilities

• Varying day-to-day work from OPS duty items to requirement gathering.
• Configuring and maintaining YML pipelines.
• Enhancing monitoring for the detection system.
• Lifecycle management: software updates and automation.
• Operations work: proactive monitoring, improving observability.
• Solving technical debt/increasing automation.

Who are you?

Experience

• Minimum 5-10 years in the IT industry.
• Proven experience in operations, maintenance, and life cycle management.

Profile

• Skills & Expertise - Mandatory: Proficient in Azure and Azure YAML pipelines. Strong Linux and Ansible skills. Expertise in monitoring and alerting systems.
• Nice to Have: Familiarity with Bicep, network knowledge, Apache Cassandra, Java, and Kubernetes.
• Methodology - Must be experienced in Agile development practices. Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills.

About Levy Professionals

Since 2000 we provide professional solutions to organizations ranging from tech start-ups to global players.

From our offices in Amsterdam and London we have built an international and local network of skilled employed professionals and contractors fuelled by our passion for connecting skills with projects.

Over the years we have fulfilled over 1700 requirements and nowadays we consistently have 250+ professionals recruited and relocated from 14 countries allocated to various projects.

Our strength is the way that we see and treat people.

This will always be a key factor in our strategy for many years to come.