Devops engineer in healthcare

Skin cancer is highly treatable when caught early, but limited access to specialist care and long wait times delay diagnosis, increasing the risk of late-stage cases and driving up treatment costs. SkinVision, founded in Amsterdam in 2012, exists to close that gap.

• Design, build, and manage AWS-based infrastructure, ensuring high availability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Implement and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Automate environment provisioning, configuration, and deployments using CI/CD pipelines.
• Ensure system resilience, security, and performance through automated monitoring and alerting.
• Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines to support rapid, reliable, and safe deployments across environments.
• Manage deployment workflows using Argo CD and Kubernetes.
• Collaborate with developers and ML engineers to streamline build, test, and release processes.
• Integrate automated testing, rollback strategies, and version control into the deployment lifecycle.
• Build a comprehensive observability stack using Datadog for metrics, logs, traces, and alerts.
• Define service-level objectives (SLOs), service-level indicators (SLIs), and dashboards for system performance.
• Proactively detect and resolve performance bottlenecks, capacity issues, and reliability risks.
• Create automated health checks and ensure visibility across production systems.
• Implement security best practices for AWS, containers, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage identity, access, and secret handling (IAM, Secrets Manager, Parameter Store).
• Ensure compliance with medical device standards and data privacy regulations (GDPR, HIPAA).
• Partner with the Information Security Officer to embed security controls across infrastructure and deployments.
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis for infrastructure or deployment-related issues.
• Establish SLAs and operational runbooks for production environments.
• Continuously improve system reliability through chaos testing, redundancy, and fault tolerance.
• Mentor engineers on DevOps principles, observability practices, and infrastructure automation.
• Assess the current infrastructure and deployment setup, and form a well-reasoned view of how it should evolve.
• Define and maintain a target architecture for our cloud platform, balancing reliability, scalability, security, and cost.
• Translate the target vision into a practical roadmap and drive its implementation incrementally, alongside day-to-day operations.
• Document and communicate architectural decisions, aligning with engineering and leadership on technical direction.

• For this role, we will only consider candidates who are currently based in the Netherlands.
• Minimum of 6 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure roles.
• Strong expertise with AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, Lambda, etc.).
• Expert in Kubernetes and Argo CD, deploying and managing production-grade custom Helm charts with secure, automated GitOps workflows in EKS
• Advanced knowledge of CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar).
• Proficiency in Datadog for observability, monitoring, and alerting.
• Strong scripting and automation skills in Python, Bash, or Go.
• Experience managing infrastructure with Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
• Familiarity with networking fundamentals, load balancing, and API gateway configuration.
• Excellent problem-solving and incident management skills.
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Будет плюсом: Experience in regulated industries such as healthcare, MedTech, or FinTech; Familiarity with multi-environment architecture (staging, pre-prod, production) and blue-green deployments; Exposure to event-driven systems, message queues, and data streaming (Kafka, SNS/SQS); Understanding of Zero Trust networking and cloud security best practices; Experience in cost optimization and performance tuning in AWS; Certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or Terraform Associate are a plus

• A competitive salary, additional benefits, and a hybrid working policy
• A vibrant, dynamic, and rapidly growing scale-up in Amsterdam
• An enthusiastic, professional, and international team
• Regular team events, including off-sites and fun activities
• Unlimited skin checks for you