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# Senior Technical Specialist

- **Company:** HCLTech
- **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Bash Shell, Linux, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Apache Maven, Ansible, Prometheus, Azure DevOps Pipelines, Runbook, Shell Script, Datadog, Grafana, Containerization, Docker
- **Published:** September 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=4f8c2c89da415cac

## About the Role

* Work both independently and collaboratively
 * Communicate clearly and openly in English
 * Show a proactive, learning-oriented mindset
 * Be detail-oriented and able to deliver under pressure
 * Share knowledge effectively within the team
 * Have experience in corporate and/or financial agile environments
 * Have experience with large-scale, high-availability platforms (24/7, resilience, reliability)
 * Perform platform operations (deployments, automation, LCM, support, risk, coding, testing, runbooks, incident/change management, observability, capacity, dependencies, service availability)
 * Design reusable automation and tooling for multiple teams

 * Participate in standby/on-call rotations* Postgres application DBA experience (setup, usage, performance, monitoring, DDL, optimization)
 * Linux and shell scripting (Bash / Python)
 * Containerization (Docker)
 * Ansible
 * Azure DevOps Pipelines
 * Git / GitHub / Maven
 * Observability tooling (ELKaaS, Prometheus, Grafana)

Required skills

 * Postgres application DBA experience (setup, usage, performance, monitoring, DDL, optimization)
 * Linux and shell scripting (Bash / Python)
 * Containerization (Docker)
 * Ansible
 * Azure DevOps Pipelines
 * Git / GitHub / Maven
 * Observability tooling (ELKaaS, Prometheus, Grafana)

## Description

As an Operations Engineer, you join a multidisciplinary, international agile squad based in Leeuwarden that develops, maintains, and operates its own systems. You contribute throughout the full lifecycle-from refining user stories to ensuring production stability and observability.


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