Senior DevOps Engineer - Talent Pool

Mercell is seeking
AWS Senior Dev Ops Engineer to join our engineering team. In this role, you'll be instrumental in designing, implementing, and optimizing cloud infrastructure and deployment processes. If you're passionate about building secure, scalable, and high-performance software solutions, and thrive in a collaborative, innovative environment, we encourage you to apply!

About Mercell

Mercell is a tech company and the market leader in e-procurement in Europe. We're revolutionizing how the public sector procures goods and services, helping buyers and suppliers connect in the most efficient, transparent, and easy way possible.

We are building a new SaaS platform that automates the entire tendering process, from publication to evaluation and final contract. This complex process involves a lot of API integrations, validations, and intricate steps that need to be handled seamlessly. Our core values Growth, Curiosity, Courage, and Trust guide everything we do, from our business decisions to how we collaborate and interact with our colleagues and customers.

We are committed to fostering an environment where our employees can develop and thrive.

As an AWS Senior Dev Ops Engineer at Mercell, you will play a key role in designing, implementing, and optimizing cloud infrastructure and deployment processes. You will focus on building scalable, secure, and automated solutions to enhance system reliability and performance. Collaborating with development and operations teams, you will drive CI/CD best practices, infrastructure as code (IaC) adoption, and security enhancements.

Your expertise will help streamline workflows, improve monitoring and logging, and ensure high availability and resilience of cloud-based applications.

Platform engineering

• Architecting a unified application platform to standardize development and delivery across the enterprise.

Cloud Infrastructure & Automation

• Design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and highly available AWS infrastructure using IaC tools such as Terraform with Terragrunt and Cloud Formation with CDK.

CI/CD Pipeline Management

• Develop, optimize, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure fast and reliable software delivery using Git Hub Actions.

Security & Compliance

• Implement security best practices, monitor cloud environments for vulnerabilities, and ensure compliance with industry standards.

Monitoring & Incident Response

• Set up logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions to ensure system performance and quick incident resolution.

Performance and Optimization

• Identify and implement optimizations for cost efficiency, scalability, and performance across company services and infrastructure.

Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing

• Work closely with development and security teams to streamline workflows, improve automation, and promote Dev Ops best practices.

• Strong experience (ideally 5+ years) in Dev Ops Engineer roles or similar.
• Hands‑on experience managing and optimizing AWS Cloud environments.
• Strong proficiency with Terraform, Cloud Formation for automating cloud resource provisioning.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI/CD, AWS Code Pipeline, or similar tools.
• Understanding of AWS security best practices and process how to build secure and reliable SDLC.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS Cloud Watch.
• Knowledge of AWS networking concepts.
• Experience working with Docker, AWS ECS (or AWS EKS) for containerized application deployment.
• Experience working with AWS Lambda.

• Experience working in Agile teams, following Dev Ops principles, and collaborating with development and Security teams.
• Hands‑on experience managing Azure Cloud environments.
• Hands‑on experience with one or more popular programming languages.
• Experience working as Software engineer in agile team.

• Netherlands, Utrecht (hybrid): Combination of work from home and on‑site presence in our local office, to foster collaboration.

Mercell does not provide relocation support for this position. We are seeking candidates who are already based in, or have existing work authorization for, the country where the role…