🌍 About Sortlist

At Sortlist, we connect businesses with the right marketing and creative agencies. Our mission is to help teams make better decisions, faster — by combining technology, data, and human expertise. We’re a fast-moving, product-led company with a strong engineering culture built around autonomy, technical excellence, and impact.

💡 The Role

As a DevOps Engineer, you are part of the Staff Engineering team, alongside the Staff Backend Engineer and the Staff Frontend Engineer. You report directly to the Head of Engineering and work hand in hand with the Tribes to ensure Sortlist’s infrastructure is robust, scalable, secure, and developer-friendly.

You will own the infrastructure and platform layer of our product — ensuring the systems we build are reliable, observable, cost-efficient, and easy for developers to work with. This is a hands-on, high-impact technical leadership role where you’ll lead by doing, teaching, and enabling others.

🧭 Your Day-to-Day

🔹 Infrastructure Ownership 🏗

• Own and maintain Sortlist’s infrastructure across AWS and GCP.
• Define and implement a long-term infrastructure vision, ensuring scalability, cost control, and reliability.
• Continuously assess and optimize costs across environments and services.
• Manage and evolve our Infrastructure-as-Code setup (Terraform, Terragrunt, FluxCD, Istio).
• Oversee and improve CI/CD pipelines, environment management (staging/sandbox/prod), and automation practices.
• Implement and maintain infrastructure security best practices, including access management, network security, and compliance in our Terraform and Zero Trust setups.

🔹 Reliability & Developer Experience 🧑‍💻

• Improve monitoring, alerting, and incident response, ensuring rapid recovery and transparency.
• Support engineers when systems crash or degrade — pair on fixes, diagnose root causes, and prevent recurrence.
• Improve DevX: create better sandboxes, streamline local environments, and simplify deployments.
• Write clear guidelines and documentation to empower developers to work confidently with infrastructure.

🔹 Collaboration & Influence 🗣

• Partner closely with the Backend and Frontend Staff Engineers to maintain consistency across the stack.
• Actively contribute to the Engineering Council, challenging and guiding project leads on infrastructure and reliability decisions.
• Support the Tribes as an enabler, not a blocker — offering help, mentorship, and feedback on architecture and operations.
• Lead post-mortems, drive reliability initiatives, and continuously improve our platform maturity.

🧰 Our Current Stack

• Cloud: AWS (EC2, ASG, S3, VPC, EKS), GCP
• Infra-as-Code: Terraform (Tofu), Terragrunt, FluxCD, Istio
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions
• Containers: Docker, Kubernetes
• Networking & Security: Cloudflare Zero Trust
• Monitoring & Alerting: Datadog, Sentry

🧠 What We’re Looking For

• Solid experience as a DevOps Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, or Platform Engineer in production environments.
• Deep knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD automation.
• Hands-on experience with FluxCD, Terragrunt, and Istio (or similar tools).
• Strong grasp of networking, observability, and security in cloud environments.
• Proven ability to improve developer experience through tooling, automation, and documentation.
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills — calm under pressure.
• Collaborative mindset with great communication: you make complex topics accessible.
• Fluency in English and French (our working languages).

💙 Why You’ll Love Working Here

• 🧩 Impact: You own the backbone of Sortlist’s product infrastructure.
  
• 💰 Competitive compensation package: €57,000–€71,000 gross/year for an employee contract, €450–€530/day for a freelance contract.
• 🎁 Flexible perks as part of our employee contract: company car or mobility budget, meal vouchers, net expense allowance, homeworking allowance, full health insurance (hospitalization, ambulatory, dental), mobile phone plan, and more.
• 🌴 Time Off: up to 10 extra-legal days (depending on experience).
• 📚 Personal development: €1,000 annual training budget to fuel your growth.
  
• 🌍 Hybrid flexibility: Work remotely most days, join the team in Wavre for collaboration.
  
• 💬 Culture: Feedback-driven, async-first, and pragmatic.
  
• 🚀 Growth: Influence architecture, reliability, and developer experience.
  
• 🕐 Autonomy: High trust, high responsibility, and freedom to shape your roadmap.

✨ The Bottom Line

You are the guardian of Sortlist’s platform — the one who ensures everything runs reliably, securely, and efficiently. You empower developers to ship confidently, make smart infrastructure decisions, and scale our systems with purpose. You see the whole picture, anticipate risks, and build the foundation that lets Sortlist move fast without breaking.