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# Lead DevOps Engineer - AWS

- **Company:** Gapstars
- **Location:** ALMERE, Netherlands
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Audit Trail, Databases, DevOps, Github, Identity and Access Management, Key Management, Queueing Systems, Software Vulnerability Management, AWS Cdk, Cloudformation, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Terraform, Docker
- **Published:** October 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://gapstars.net/tech/career-listings/job-1711/

## About the Role

* Strong hands-on experience building, managing, and maintaining production AWS environments.
 * Experience with AWS landing zones, multi-account governance, IAM, networking, and security controls.
 * Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
 * Practical experience with Docker, container deployments, and GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines.
 * Confidence supporting databases, message queues, and background processing.
 * Strong troubleshooting skills across application and infrastructure layers, particularly during deployments and production incidents.
 * Sound judgment in balancing security, delivery speed, cloud costs, reliability, and operational complexity.
 * Clear communication and a collaborative, hands-on approach, with the ability to implement improvements rather than simply provide recommendations.

## Description

Our client is looking for a hands-on Senior DevOps / Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to strengthen their AWS infrastructure, security, and software delivery processes. You'll work closely with our client's engineering team to establish a secure AWS landing zone, improve deployment reliability, and build repeatable processes that the team can confidently maintain., * AWS Foundations: Assess and improve our client's AWS landing zone, account and environment separation, networking, access controls, and security guardrails.

 * Infrastructure as Code: Ensure infrastructure changes are version-controlled, reviewable, and reproducible, with clear configuration and drift management.
 * CI/CD: Improve GitHub Actions pipelines to enhance build reliability, deployment speed, and automated quality and security checks.
 * Release Management: Establish a reliable path from code review to deployment, including version traceability, coordinated frontend/backend releases, safe database migrations, and tested rollback procedures.
 * Cloud Security: Strengthen least-privilege access, workload identities, secrets management, encryption, audit logging, and vulnerability remediation.
 * Reliability and Recovery: Implement actionable monitoring and alerts, and validate backup and recovery procedures.
 * Cost Optimisation: Identify unnecessary cloud expenditure and right-size resources without compromising performance or reliability.
 * Continuous Improvement: Work closely with our client's engineering team to assess the existing AWS infrastructure and delivery setup, prioritise improvements, and establish secure, repeatable processes the team can confidently maintain., Senior / Lead DevOps Engineer - AWS