DevOps Engineer

Summarised, your tasks will include (but not be limited to) the following:

• Automating building, testing, provisioning, and deploying of our services
• Managing our infrastructure as code (that can be reviewed and version-controlled)
• Hardening and securing our internal and external systems
• Improving and maintaining our monitoring and alerting systems
• Developing new tools that help us make the process of building software even more efficient and enjoyable

You are expected to find the right tool for the different processes, or to write a custom one if it doesn't exist yet. You have experience working on distributed and cloud systems and know how to manage large amounts of data. We are looking for someone proactive, autonomous, and keen to be a part of our DevOps team!, Ideally, you have experience in software development and in keeping a complex distributed application running and secure at all times. You should be interested in declarative infrastructure, reproducible builds, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), dynamic resource scaling, security best practices, and general robustness of a distributed system. In more concrete terms, we expect you to have the following:

• Experience in managing infrastructure with either GCP, AWS, or Azure
• Experience with CI systems such as Semaphore, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Travis
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code tooling, such as Ansible and Terraform.
• Good understanding of networking concepts and protocols (SSH, DNS, SSL/TLS, HTTP, etc.)
• Deep knowledge of Linux and system administration tools, such as e.g. apt, systemd and bash
• Security-awareness and familiarity with concepts like defense-in-depth and the principle of least privilege
• Familiarity with Python
• Commitment to high-quality engineering

And then some things are 'nice to have':

• Familiarity with build tools such as Nix
• Familiarity with relational databases such as PostgreSQL
• Knowledge of Hashicorp tools, i.e. Consul, Nomad, Vault, and Terraform
• Hands-on experience with distributed systems

Some practical things we expect from you:

• You are available for at least 32 hours per week.

• You live in the Netherlands (or are willing to relocate) and own a work permit (if you're a non-EU citizen).

• Gross monthly salary ranging from € 4.500 to € 6.500 based on a 40-hour work week. The salary is determined based on your experience.
• 8% holiday allowance - 8% of your yearly salary, which is paid together with your May salary.
• Stock Appreciation Rights: eligible employees can financially profit from Channable's success.
• Annual L&D budget of €1000 to spend on anything you want to learn. You can take full advantage of this to grow professionally.
• Saving for old age - we have a savings scheme for old age, which can accrue up to 5% of your monthly salary.
• Company-wide performance bonus, up to 10% of your annual salary, determined yearly by our founders based on financial planning and targets
• Traveling to our office? No problem, we got you covered (NS Business Card, or €0,23 per km if you decide to use a different means of transport).
• To work in a beautiful historic and fully renovated office in the heart of Utrecht & with a flexible hybrid working policy of (minimum 2 days in the office).
• Since you can work from home for 3 days a week, we will provide home office supplies.
• Having flexible working hours means starting your day between 8.00-10.00 am.
• 26 vacation days + 2 reload days based on 40 hours.
• We offer a 3-week-long workcation; and an additional 3 weeks, if you live as an expat in the Netherlands!
• Are you going to become a parent? We think it is important that you spend time with your newborn. Enjoy 5 weeks of 100% paid partner leave.
• We want you to feel good - please feel free to use our discounted Urban Sport Club subscription.
• You have free & anonymous access to the OpenUp platform, and psychologists. This free service is also available to your family members.
• Channaweekend (we will go abroad in 2026 for a long weekend with all the colleagues from all over the world).
• At Channable, our Chef and Commis Chef prepare fresh meals Monday to Thursday, catering to all dietary needs - including vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free - to keep our team fueled and inspired!
• Additional working conditions like massages, in-office bar (Channabar), parties, even personal training sessions at our Channagym, video games, and many more!

At Channable, we have over 100 developers, building and launching features at a rapid pace to meet the demands of our customers in an ever-changing e-commerce environment. As a DevOps Engineer, you will be joining a team of 9 and contributing to the improvement and scaling of our cloud infrastructure and the smooth operation of our tool. You will also help us improve and fine-tune our processes from provisioning, building and deploying, to monitoring and alerting. We believe that a solid infrastructure can be a force multiplier for the rest of your development team, and that running code should not be a worry for the development team. Infrastructure should scale from initial prototype to mass adoption. As part of the DevOps team, that is what you will be working on. At Channable, we process and move hundreds of billions of items per day on behalf of our customers. As part of the DevOps team, you will be helping keep the underlying systems scalable and reliable while maintaining cost-effectiveness. New systems replace old ones, continually removing bottlenecks., Channable was founded in 2014 in the heart of Utrecht. We are now a strong team of 320+ diverse individuals, and more than 40+ nationalities. Joining Channable means you're looking for a bit more than just a job. Diverse as we are, we all share our love for growth, to help, to take ownership, and create an awesome journey together. Feel free to take a further look at who we are here and on our Instagram or LinkedIn! Wanna get to know us even more? Give our Culture Playbook a read., Channable is a fast-growing B2B SaaS platform that offers a fully integrated way to market your products online. We empower marketers and online businesses to manage, scale, and optimize their marketing Want to read more about our development adventures? Then visit our inspiring tech blog: https://www.channable.com/tech And if this makes you enthusiastic, you can also take a look at some of our open-source work at https://github.com/channable to get a feeling of how we work together and what our code looks like.