DevOps engineer in cloud platforms

Netcompany is one of Europe’s leading technology partners, with more than 9,500 colleagues delivering digital solutions for governments, critical industries and businesses across Europe. We take responsibility for the full journey, from strategy and development to daily operations. As Europe’s leader in sovereign AI, we build technology on Europe’s own terms.

• Lead, mentor and develop the platform engineering team, covering resourcing, recruitment, performance management and on-call rota design.
• Own the platform across all environments, setting the multi-year technical direction and roadmap, including Kubernetes and service mesh upgrades, lifecycle management and architectural improvements.
• Design, build and operate AWS infrastructure as code using Terraform, and run modern container platforms including Amazon EKS, Karpenter, Istio and GitOps-based deployment.
• Own the reliability and performance of CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Argo CD), ensuring fast, secure, repeatable releases with automated testing, quality gates and rollback.
• Drive platform availability, resilience and disaster recovery, including backup and restore testing, failover and incident response leadership, supported by observability and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, OpenSearch, CloudWatch).
• Manage external SOC providers and be accountable for technical security and compliance, including vulnerability management, patching, penetration test remediation, access control and secrets management.
• Lead FinOps and cost optimisation, covering budgets, tagging, reporting, right-sizing, non-production scheduling and commitment-based savings.
• Act as the senior technical point of contact for the customer, presenting designs, risks, incidents, cost and roadmap, while working with product, delivery and architecture teams on release planning and capacity forecasting.

• Significant experience in DevOps, platform or SRE roles, including leading and developing engineering teams.
• Expert-level AWS knowledge across compute, networking, data, security and edge services, running large-scale production workloads.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production (ideally Amazon EKS), including service mesh, autoscaling and GitOps deployment.
• Deep proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and an "everything as code" approach.
• Proven experience owning reliable, secure CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Azure DevOps, Argo CD) with automated quality gates.
• Strong grounding in observability, incident management, resilience and disaster recovery in a 24/7 service environment.
• Working knowledge of security and compliance practices, including vulnerability management and managing external technical providers.
• Demonstrated FinOps and cloud cost optimisation experience, balancing cost, performance and resilience.
• Excellent communicator, confident presenting to customers, senior stakeholders and technical teams, with the ability to set technical direction over a multi-year period.
• A calm, hands-on and credible leader who stays decisive under pressure and drives continuous improvement.
• Hold one of the following AWS certifications as a minimum:
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
• Будет плюсом: Experience working in an ITIL aligned environment; Terraform or FinOps Practitioner certifications; Experience working in public sector or regulated environments; Familiarity with ISO 27001 or Cyber Essentials Plus

• Your development continues through the responsibility you take, the projects you lead and the people you learn from.
• As part of a structured career model, you’ll build on the experience you already bring, supported by a personal mentor from the leadership group who can help guide your professional development, career direction and personal goals.
• You’ll also take part in Netcompany Academy, with courses and seminars tailored to your career stage.
• Hybrid working model with some flexible working
• 25 days’ holiday
• Private Medical Health care via Vitality
• Pension contribution, Life Assurance
• Professional certifications supported as part of learning and development.
• A range of retail discounts to enhance your lifestyle, encompassing restaurants, supermarkets, travel, leisure activities and health and well-being services.
• Access to our Employee Resource Groups, our groups represent diverse backgrounds and provide a platform for colleagues to connect, learn, and support one another.