AI-Native DevOps Engineer

About Oper

Oper, a European Fintech company, is a leader in cloud-based digital mortgage software. We provide personalized journeys for borrowers and lenders. Oper's technology streamlines the mortgage application process, eliminates paperwork, and increases transparency. The fastest growing part of our business is

Herman , our AI agent for mortgage origination. Herman reads documents, checks them, and works a credit file the way an analyst would, inside the regulated workflow of a real bank. It runs on sovereign EU infrastructure, because our clients cannot send mortgage data anywhere else. Phase by phase, it automates more of the origination process: first employed borrowers, then the self-employed, and onward. This is not a chatbot bolted onto old software. It is agentic software doing real work in a regulated environment. A passionate and engaging team of around 30 stellar Fintech operators works vigorously to transform European mortgages by enhancing efficiency and alleviating borrower anxiety. Backed by Bessemer Venture Partners and Motive Ventures, we have raised EUR 14 million, placing Oper at the forefront of revolutionizing mortgages in Europe. Oper is headquartered in Antwerp, Belgium. Now, we're looking for an

AI-Native DevOps Engineer

to join our

Engineering team

and keep the infrastructure behind Herman fast, reliable, and secure as we scale across Europe. Tasks

Your Mission

You'll own and evolve the cloud infrastructure that Herman and our SaaS product run on. This is a hands-on role spanning

infrastructure, CI/CD, and platform reliability

in a regulated, security-first environment. You'll build and maintain the pipelines, clusters, and infrastructure-as-code that let our engineers ship quickly and safely, on sovereign EU infrastructure where mortgage data has to stay put. Just as importantly, you'll be the person developers and non-developers turn to when something needs debugging, deploying, or unblocking. You make the rest of the team faster. You'll join a small, senior DevOps team reporting directly to the CTO, with the room and the mandate to lead: you set the direction for how the platform is built and run, and grow into the technical anchor for infrastructure at Oper as we scale. What you'll do

Manage our infrastructure platform

through Terraform Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines

(GitLab or GitHub) that make shipping fast, repeatable, and safe. Run our Kubernetes workloads , managing deployments through GitOps with

Argo CD . Manage cloud infrastructure as code

with

Terraform , primarily on

Google Cloud Platform

and

IBM Cloud . Support developers and non-developers alike : provide hands-on debugging help, unblock deployments, and make the platform easy to work with. Own security and compliance in the platform.

Build infrastructure that stays audit-ready and meets the demands of a regulated fintech, including

ISO 27001

and

NIST . Manage secrets, identities, and certificates

securely across the platform, keeping every tenant properly isolated. Participate in on-call duties

to ensure availability of the system during office hours. Work AI-native

Building agentic software is what we do, and we expect you to operate your platform the same way: AI-first. Use AI agents to generate the bulk of your infrastructure code, pipeline configuration, and scripts under your direction, while you own the architecture, the review, and the quality. We measure your impact in shipped, reliable infrastructure, not hand-typed lines. Build

agentic workflows

that do real platform work: scaffolding Terraform modules from a spec, drafting and debugging pipeline configs, generating runbooks, and triaging incidents. Use modern AI tooling as the default way you build, configure, and debug, not as an occasional helper. Aim for a delivery cadence a non-AI-native engineer simply cannot match, and help us raise the bar on what an AI-native platform function looks like at Oper. Requirements

What you'll bring

4+ years

of DevOps or platform engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated ownership of production infrastructure. Strong cloud experience, primarily on

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) , our main platform. In practice you'll also touch

AWS, Azure, and IBM Cloud , so multi-cloud comfort is a real plus. Experience with managing

Kubernetes, Terraform, and Argo CD . Proficient with

CI/CD pipelines , preferably

GitLab or GitHub . Solid

scripting skills , ideally

Python ; Bash or Typescript also welcome. Comfortable

collaborating closely with developers and non-developers , providing support and guidance. Security and compliance awareness , given our regulated fintech environm