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# DevOps Engineer

- **Company:** Polarsteps
- **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** €7,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, DevOps, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, TypeScript, Backend, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Front End Software Development
- **Published:** October 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Polarsteps/69a03ebe-db33-4da8-987e-d532f46d67d3/application

## About the Role

* 5+ years as a DevOps Engineer, SRE or Platform Engineer.
 * Experience automating infrastructure and processes on AWS.
 * Fluency in shell scripting, Python and Terraform / OpenTofu.
 * Experience monitoring, troubleshooting and scaling a similar stack (Python, PostgreSQL/RDS) under growing load.
 * Comfort making changes to backend code when automation calls for it.
 * A pragmatic mindset: you know when to cut corners and when to build something that lasts.
 * Clear communication with technical and non-technical people, helping them reach decisions on complex trade-offs.
 * Autonomy and a collaborative nature. You're happy setting up your own processes while working with everyone.
 * Knowledgeable of platform security best practices.

Bonus points if you've worked with Nix, Kubernetes, ArgoCD or ECS, RabbitMQ, or TypeScript on the frontend

1st class extras

## Description

* Report to Simeon, our Lead Backend Engineer, and work closely with our Platform team (Youri, William, Paco, Jimmy, Florian and Ledio) and team leads across Engineering.
 * Own the day-to-day operations of our AWS stack, including S3 and our PostgreSQL databases.
 * Spot bottlenecks in our architecture and scaling, both for users and for developer experience. You'll create and execute a plan with Engineering and other stakeholders.
 * Review, improve and maintain our observability, monitoring and alerting.
 * Manage and respond to incidents, and keep our infrastructure and troubleshooting documentation up to date.
 * Strengthen platform security and privacy, working alongside our external security lead.
 * Lead initiatives like rolling out company-wide SSO and managing our VPN.
 * Support our Data team with the infrastructure behind our analytics stack.