DevOps Engineer

We are searching for a DevOps Engineer with experience in AWS, Azure (or similar), NodeJS, Service Oriented Architectures, and a strong grasp of automation tools. 

Studyportals Headquarters is in Strijp-S, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, we offer a hybrid working environment.

About Studyportals 

We change the lives of millions of students and leave the world a bit brighter than we found it. Every minute 100 students around the world trust our platforms (e.g., mastersportal.com) to find their best matching education for free. At the same time, we help educators diversify their (international) student population and reduce dropouts. 

With forty different nationalities among the 200+ people working at Studyportals, we are an international bunch of people. Eager to learn and serious about fun. Want to know more? 

Why are we searching for you? 

As a DevOps Engineer, you will assume responsibility over Studyportals’ complete infrastructure and the tooling used by our product scrum teams to place their work in the hands of students and universities worldwide. Your focus is on our overall Platform maintenance and innovation by providing guidance on secure design for our scrum teams as well as owning and improving our infrastructure.  

You will be part of the Platform Operations team whose main mission is to speed up and stabilize the development process by providing tooling and services to our Engineering teams to support their processes. We are looking for someone who wants to work together with others on supporting the product teams, improving and maintaining our infrastructure, platform-related tooling and our overall CI/CD process. We value initiative greatly! 

What are your three main goals? 

• Help us to become more scalable as a platform, by decoupling our dependencies and driving our microservice architecture. Staying in control of quality is key! 
• Research weaknesses and threats and find cost-effective solutions to cybersecurity problems and our scaling ambitions. 
• Share your knowledge with your team members and develop yourself further as a developer by using your personal development budget to learn new technologies or methods. 

How does your team look like? 

The Product Engineering department consists of 35 people. You are part of our Platform team which is a team of 4. Your Product Owner (PO) sets the product priorities. You are, together with the PO, responsible for designing and implementing new functionalities. This means that you, as a developer, have influence on what to build, and how to build it. You report to our Software Development Manager, Stefan. He started as a developer at Studyportals and knows his way around the systems. His main responsibility is to make sure you can do your work in the best possible way, taking away impediments, driving technical innovation and making sure you can be the best version of yourself. 

What Tech Stack do we use? 

Almost all our systems have been developed in-house and follow modern quality standards. We work in a service-oriented architecture, powered by our own RESTful API and AWS. Our products are powered by VueJS, Node/NPM, TypeScript, Sass. 

We work in a service-oriented architecture, powered by our own RESTful API and the AWS ecosystem. In parallel, we are transitioning to the AWS CDK and scaling up our infrastructure, via Docker and our centralized CI/CD tooling. 

Requirements

• About 4-5 years of experience in the web industry as DevOps Engineer 

• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) or any other Cloud Computing Platform (e.g. Azure, Google Cloud Platform) 

• Experience with building modern applications with JavaScript (ES2017), TypeScript and NPM. 
• A strong grasp of automation tools. You understand what and when to (or not to) automate and are able to make objective cost/benefit assessments of your proposed automations. 
• Experience with network security and technologies and with system, security, and infrastructure monitoring tools. 
• Good familiarity with web related technologies (Web applications, Web Services, Service Oriented Architectures) and of network/web related protocols.  

Benefits

• Competitive salary including a bonus and pension.

• 32 vacation days (including bank holidays) you have the flexibility to take your holidays whenever you want (e.g. be off on Chinese New Year instead of King’s Day)
• Possibility to buy/sell 5 vacation days out of your annual balance
• Reimbursement of your work-related travel costs.
• Hybrid work - 3 days per week opportunity to work from home, including a remote working allowance.
• Possibility to work from abroad 2 times a year.
• An annual personal development budget because personal growth is KEY!
• A nice and fun office in the heart of Eindhoven; five minutes’ walk away from the station

Last updated on Aug 12, 2024