DevOps Engineer [Dutch required]

Faktion is looking for a DevOps Engineer to help deploy, scale and maintain our projects, apps and platforms.

As an Azure DevOps/Cloud Engineer, you build scalable and future-proof platforms by combining infrastructure, security and automation.

Some key responsibilities

• Set up and automate CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for builds, tests and deployments
• Manage scalable and secure cloud infrastructure on Azure (and in the future AWS) with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Bicep)
• Containerise and roll out ML services and Node services via Docker and Kubernetes
• Monitor and resolve performance and connectivity issues
• Think about infrastructure architecture, networks, continuity and disaster recovery
• Design and enforce cloud security controls: network segmentation, private endpoints, WAF, RBAC/least privilege, and secret management with automated rotation
• Build and maintain observability: centralised logging, metrics, tracing (OpenTelemetry), dashboards, SLIs/SLOs, and actionable alerting
• Cost monitoring and optimisation of resources
• Make clean documentation/architecture diagrams
• Proven experience managing Node.js services in production, with skills in containerization, Docker image optimisation, and diagnosing performance and memory bottlenecks.
• Networking fundamentals: DNS, TLS, load balancing, firewalls, and private networking patterns
• Disaster recovery: backup strategies, restore drills, recovery
• At least 5 years of experience in architecture, infrastructure, DevOps and/or Azure
• Experience with Terraform and/or Bicep for the rollout of cloud infrastructure (AWS experience is a plus)
• Practical experience with Azure DevOps and Docker
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle
• You can work independently and take responsibility

Nice to haves

• knowledge on cybersecurity and best practices
• Experience operating data/queue services from an SRE perspective

We Offer

• A rewarding salary package that includes additional perks like a company car and fuel card or a mobility budget, comprehensive hospitalisation, group insurance, and a top-tier laptop and smartphone
• A company culture that stimulates both individual and team development, fostering professional growth and leadership opportunities
• Regular team-building activities and gatherings provide great opportunities to unwind and engage with our vibrant team initiatives
• A flexible hybrid working policy to choose where, how, and when you want to work
• Opportunities to represent Faktion at industry conferences and events