DevOps Engineer

Open Assessment Technologies is growing, and we’re looking for a Dev Ops Engineer to join our Cloud Operations team ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of the platforms supporting national Computer-Based Assessment (CBA) campaigns across multiple countries. You will bridge the gap between software development and operations by applying engineering principles to infrastructure and deployment processes.

• Infrastructure & Cloud Management
  • Design, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure cloud-based infrastructure on both GCP and AWS.
  • Manage GCP-based Kubernetes clusters and AWS-based infrastructures.
  • Apply Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using Terraform, Ansible or equivalent tools.
  • Manage deployment workflows via ArgoCD, Code Deploy and Git Hub Actions.
• Deployment Automation & CI/CD
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate provisioning, configuration, and delivery processes.
  • Support integration engineers and QA in preparing, validating, and deploying environments for national assessment campaigns.
• Monitoring, Reliability & Incident Management
  • Set up and maintain observability systems using Google Cloud Operations Suite, Dynatrace, Grafana, and Datadog.
  • Participate in on-call rotations during national campaigns, ensuring uptime, rapid incident response, and efficient postmortem follow-up.
  • Define and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for critical services.
• Scalability, Performance & Resilience
  • Support capacity planning, load testing, and performance optimization to handle peak traffic during nationwide assessments.
  • Implement self-healing, redundancy, and failover strategies across multi-cloud environments.
• Security & Compliance
  • Ensure compliance with ISO 27001, SOC 2, and GDPR standards.
  • Implement IAM best practices, network security (firewalls, VPNs, service mesh), and data protection measures.
  • Collaborate with security and compliance teams to maintain high standards across deployments.
• Collaboration & Continuous Improvement
  • Work closely with integration engineers, QA, and project managers to align operational reliability with campaign goals.
  • Promote Dev Ops and SRE best practices.
  • Contribute to documentation, automation scripts, and reusable deployment templates.

• 5+ years of experience in Dev Ops, SRE, or Cloud Engineering roles.
• Strong expertise with GCP (GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Cloud SQL, Big Query, and Pub/Sub) and AWS (EC2, RDS, Elasti Cache, S3, Lambda, Code Deploy, …).
• Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Helm, ArgoCD, and Git Hub Actions.
• Scripting proficiency in Python, Bash, NodeJS, or Go.
• Write and optimize SQL queries for troubleshooting and performance monitoring.
• Experience with monitoring and logging systems:
  Dynatrace, Grafana, Datadog, Google Cloud Operations Suite (Stackdriver).
• Understanding and usage of CI/CD (ArgoCD, Git Hub Actions), Git Ops, and IaC methodologies.
• Knowledge of Postgre
  
  SQL, Redis, but also Elastic Search, Firestore and other No
  
  SQL databases.
• Solid understanding of networking, security, and identity management in cloud environments.
• Familiarity with ISO 27001 controls and data protection practices.
• Excellent problem‑solving and communication skills; ability to collaborate in cross‑functional teams.
• Knowledge about Elastic Search is a plus.
• Google Cloud and/or AWS certifications are a plus.

• Strong sense of ownership and accountability for system reliability and performance.
• Ability to thrive under pressure, and manage incidents during live national campaigns.
• Curious mindset, eager to automate, optimize, and continuously improve operational processes.
• Team‑oriented, with a collaborative approach and commitment to blameless culture.

• Permanent position based in Luxembourg or Spain.
• The employee will work during regular daily working hours, 8 hours a day.
• Remote work is possible, depending on regulations in the country of the employee.
• The employee undertakes to work overtime when required by the workload, including weekends and public holidays in cases of extreme urgency (paid accordingly depending on regulations of the country of the employee).