Lead DevOps Engineer

Job Type: Full-Time

Location: Groningen, Netherlands OR Remote (global)

About Us:

VONQ is a leader in recruitment technology solutions and is committed to driving innovation and excellence. We’re looking for a Sole/Lead DevOps Engineer who will own our infrastructure operations and guide the evolution of our DevOps and SRE practices. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and want to have a major impact, this role is for you.

Job Description:

As the Sole/Lead DevOps Engineer, you will be the lynchpin of our medium-sized infrastructure. You’ll manage, optimize, and modernize our systems—primarily on AWS with some GCP—while collaborating closely with our cybersecurity expert and a world-class software engineering team. You will ensure our systems are stable, scalable, and secure, driving critical strategic initiatives to align our technology with business objectives.

What We Offer:

• Extreme Flexibility: Work from anywhere in the world, on your schedule. We focus on results - smooth system operations, continuous and rapid progress, and ensuring your availability aligns with team needs.

• Rapid Career Growth: You’ll have plenty of room to advance within a growing global organization.

• Learn from the Best: Join a high-caliber engineering team that builds products used by millions.

• Generous Compensation: Competitive salary and benefits package that reflects your experience and expertise.

Key Responsibilities:

• Primary contact for all engineering-related infrastructure and deployment queries.

• Full ownership of our existing infrastructure, mainly AWS with some GCP.

• Lead incident management and response, including efficient on-call procedures and insightful post-mortems.

• Define and implement SLIs and SLOs for services.

• Develop and maintain advanced monitoring and alerting systems.

• Manage and upgrade legacy infrastructure using ECS and Terraform

• Collaborate with cybersecurity and software engineering teams.

• Drive strategic IT initiatives, aligning DevOps/SRE strategies with business goals.

• Effective communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Maintain comprehensive documentation for systems, processes, and architectures.

• Budget management for DevOps/SRE activities, focusing on cost optimization.

• Work with the security team to ensure compliance with ISO27001 standards.

• Manage relationships with external vendors and service providers.

Requirements:

• Demonstrated success in a similar role, with a strong bias toward action and ownership

• Ability to work autonomously and in collaboration with cross-functional teams

• Expertise in AWS/GCP, Terraform, and ideally Ansible too.

• Excellent communication, self-organisation, and problem-solving skills

• Experience in a startup or high-growth environment is strongly preferred

Must Haves

• Extensive knowledge writing infrastructure as code in Terraform

• GCP (Compute Engine, Cloud Build, Logging, IAM, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Cloud Run, VPC Network, Network Services, Cloud Tasks, Cloud Scheduler, Workflows, Pub/Sub)

• AWS: ECS, RDS, VPC, ELB, Spot Instances

• Database Architecture (MariaDB and Galera Cluster)

• Tools (Ansible, Docker, Linux/Ubuntu, Nginx, SSL, DNS)

• Virtualization & Scalability experience
  
  

Could Haves

• Networking, backup strategy, CI/CD, ProxySQL, Redis, VPN

Bonus Points

• Knowledge of the Dutch language

• Xdebug, Sentry, GitHub, PHP/Symfony, Composer

• Knowledge of Python or a passion for software development

VONQ is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you’re eager to take on a challenging role where you can make a real impact on infrastructure, culture, and technology, we’d love to hear from you.