Senior DevOps Engineer

IT Recruitment is looking for her client in Amsterdam for a Senior DevOps Engineer. You translate customer needs into corresponding architecting solutions and provide expert technical advice and design. You will work as part of a multiple disciplinary team in a DevOps culture, as well as supporting more traditional applications development and support. You will work alongside operators, engineers and developers to work within- and support project teams delivering modern cloud solutions.

Tasks & Responsibilities

• Own & lead the technical customer engagement, assessments, architectural design sessions, improvement sessions on existing architectures, implementation projects, proofs of concepts, etc.
• Work in project teams to architect, develop and deploy new cloud solutions for customers.
• Optimize the deployment of cloud solutions using DevOps tooling.
• Embed and/or automate operational tasks on cloud solutions.
• Provide 2nd & 3rd line support on delivered cloud solutions.
• Build and support DevOps CI/CD automation to implement cloud infrastructure that enables engineers to self-serve for most operational tasks and achieve rapid change.

Education & Experience

• Relevant experience in architecting, designing and implementing Microsoft Azure private, public and hybrid cloud-based solutions.
• Broad understanding of cloud computing technologies, business drivers, and emerging computing trends.
• Knowledge of- and experience in one of the following cloud providers, Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform. With proven experience in at least one.
• If you don’t have experience with Azure, then we expect you to get certified on 200 level within 6 months after you join us.
• Knowledge or good understanding of Cloud Services & Concepts (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS)
• Recent experience in working with CI/CD processes and tooling from code repositories such as GitLab/GitHub, continuous integration e.g. Azure DevOps, Jenkins and artefact repositories e.g. Nexus.
• Strong scripting abilities (PowerShell, Python, Bash) and ability to use APIs to automate tooling, delivery pipelines and operational support.
• Project delivery experience within waterfall and agile software development methodologies
• Keen interest in future technologies and the strategic direction of software and systems delivery to continually improve the service offered by SaaSplaza.
• Experience in application assessment to determine the best fit for cloud services.
• Good communication, presenting, collaboration and stakeholder management skills

About the organisation

We are a leading full-service Managed Services Provider (MSP) for Microsoft Azure and critical business applications with over 20 years of experience. We serve more than 1,000 enterprise customers in over 40 countries, from 9 offices around the world (Seattle, San Diego, Puerto Rico, Amsterdam, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Bangalore and Singapore). Our mission is to help companies achieve more with cloud technology. We are committed to taking businesses to the next level by enabling and delivering the most innovative and flexible cloud infrastructure, productivity and business application solutions. With our integrated, global capabilities in the Microsoft Cloud - Azure, Modern Workplace, Dynamics 365 and Data and AI, the organisation is part of the Global Azure Expert Managed Services Provider program, has more than 10 Microsoft Gold competencies and is member of the Azure Elite Group.

What we offer

• Good salary - to match your knowledge and experience.
• Great benefits - including bonus scheme, pension, and much more.
• Flexible working hours and an inclusive, balanced, working culture.
• 25 vacation days - for some well-deserved R&R.
• All the tech you need - mobile phone, laptop, etc.
• Plenty of training and education opportunities - for both personal and career development.
• Free fruit, tea, coffee, subsidized lunches.
• Afternoon drinks and other fun events.
• International career opportunities, we have offices from Seattle to Dubai to Singapore
• A whole lot of other stuff you’ll discover when we take this further!