DevOps Engineer

Job Title  Senior Dev Ops / Platform Engineer
Location  Amsterdam or Munich

Employment Type

Full-time
About the company  Our client is a global digital distributor of electronic components, transforming how modern businesses bring products to market.

Job Summary  We are seeking a Senior Dev Ops / Platform Engineer to build and support the delivery platform, release process, environments, automation, monitoring, and operational tooling used by engineering teams. This hands‑on technical role will help engineering teams deliver software more reliably, reduce production risk, minimize manual deployment work, and resolve environment‑related blockers.
Responsibilities   Design, build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines for internal applications and business‑critical systems.
Support release automation and deployment processes across development, QA, UAT, staging, and production environments.
Improve environment consistency, configuration management, deployment repeatability, and rollback readiness.
Work with software engineers, QA, DBAs, infrastructure, and security teams to make releases safer and more predictable.
Support Azure Dev Ops repositories, pipelines, boards, release processes, work tracking, and related engineering tooling where applicable.
Help define and enforce practical release readiness expectations, including build quality, test execution, deployment validation, database migration coordination, monitoring readiness, and rollback planning.
Build and maintain automation scripts, operational tools, deployment utilities, and self‑service capabilities that reduce manual work and operational errors.
Support monitoring, logging, metrics, alerting, and observability for applications, services, jobs, pipelines, environments, and production dependencies.
Participate in L2 / L3 triage for build failures, deployment issues, environment problems, performance symptoms, and production incidents.
Contribute to root cause analysis after release, deployment, platform, or environment‑related incidents and help define practical remediation actions.
Identify fragile deployment steps, undocumented dependencies, manual processes, configuration drift, and environment‑related single points of failure.
Partner with DBA / Data Platform teams to coordinate database scripts, migration validation, backup / recovery considerations, and data‑related deployment risks.
Partner with Infrastructure & Security teams on servers, network dependencies, identity, access, certificates, secrets, vulnerability remediation, and platform security controls.
Improve developer experience by reducing build times, deployment friction, environment blockers, and unclear release processes.
Create and maintain practical documentation, runbooks, deployment instructions, troubleshooting guides, and operational procedures.
Ensure Dev Ops / platform work is tracked, communicated, and prioritized through agreed tools and processes, including Azure Dev Ops where applicable.

Required Qualifications (Must-Haves)   5+ years of experience in Dev Ops, platform engineering, release engineering, site reliability engineering, systems engineering, or similar hands‑on roles.
Strong hands‑on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation for production software systems.
Practical experience with Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub Actions, Jenkins, Git Lab CI, or similar CI/CD and engineering workflow tools.
Experience supporting multiple application environments such as development, QA, UAT, staging, and production.
Strong scripting and automation skills using Power Shell, Bash, Python, or similar tools.

Experience with release management, deployment validation, rollback planning, environment troubleshooting, and production support.
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