DevOps Engineer

Purpose of the position
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for managing, automating, and continuously improving cloud and platform infrastructures within a complex and highly regulated environment. You will support development and operational teams in realizing reliable, secure and reproducible deployments and actively contribute to the further professionalization of DevOps operations.
You combine technical expertise with a pragmatic and proactive approach and act as a reference person for operational issues regarding infrastructure, CI/CD, cloud platforms and automation.
In addition, you play an important role in knowledge sharing, coaching and the guidance of less experienced colleagues.

Responsibilities – deliverables

• Manage, maintain, and automate Azure infrastructures according to Infrastructure as Code principles.
• Support container platforms based on Kubernetes (AKS), Helm, and GitOps principles.
• Managing cloud networks, security components, access management, and certificates.
• Perform analysis on the existing infrastructure and eliminate configuration anomalies between code and operational environments.
• Implement and monitor monitoring, logging and alerting solutions.
• Actively contribute to the security of platforms and development processes in accordance with applicable security and compliance requirements.
• Supporting development teams with deployment, infrastructure and cloud-related issues.
• Drafting and maintaining technical documentation, procedures and standards.
• Ensuring knowledge transfer, guidance and coaching of new employees and colleagues within the DevOps domain, with the aim of sustainably embedding expertise within the organization.
• Actively identify improvement opportunities and contribute to the further automation, standardization and maturity of the DevOps operation.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders within an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Contribute to incident analysis, troubleshooting, and operational continuity of critical platforms.
• Technical Ice Cream

Cloud & Platform:

• Proven experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Kennis van Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Apps, Azure Functions, Logic Apps en Azure Storage.
• Experience with Service Bus, API Management and Entra ID.
• Experience with Azure network components, including Azure Firewall, vWAN hubs, Virtual Networks (VNets), Network Security Groups (NSGs), Private Endpoints, and DNS.

 
Infrastructure as Code:

• Extensive experience with Terraform.
• Knowledge of state management, modularization and version control of infrastructure code.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code across multiple environments (Dev, Test, Acceptance, and Production).

 
Containers & Scripting:

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of Helm charts.
• Fluent knowledge of YAML, JSON and other configuration formats.

DevOps & Automation:

• Experience with Git and GitHub.
• Experience with GitHub Actions and CI/CD processes.
• Experience with PowerShell, Bash, or Python for automation purposes.

 
Monitoring & Security

• Knowledge of Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and Grafana.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Knowledge of RBAC, Managed Identities, OIDC, Key Vault, and Privileged Identity Management (PIM).
• Experience with security scanning, dependency management, and secure development practices.

Pros

• Azure certifications such as DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400), Azure Administrator (AZ-104), or equivalent certifications.
• CKAD - (Certified Kubernetes Administrator / Developer).
• Experience in a regulated or government environment with strict security, compliance, and environmental separation requirements.
• Experience with GitOps principles and tooling such as Flux.
• Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in production environments.
• Knowledge of Azure Firewall, virtual WAN (vWAN) and hybrid network environments.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Grafana, Azure Monitor and Application Insights.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and working with Jira.
• Experience in coaching, supervising or training colleagues within a technical environment.

Skills

• .Net
• Agile
• Azure DevOps
• Bash
• Docker
• GIT
• Grafana
• Kubernetes
• PowerShell scripting
• Rancher Kubernetes Engine - RKE
• SCRUM

Languages
Dutch - Level Passive knowledge
English
French - Level Passive knowledge