AWS DevOps Engineer

AWS Dev Ops Engineer - 6 months contract into Perm - Hybrid - Utrecht
Your Mission

As an AWS Dev Ops Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, implementing, and optimizing cloud infrastructure and deployment processes. You will focus on building scalable, secure, and automated solutions to enhance system reliability and performance.

Working closely with development, operations, and security teams, you will drive CI/CD best practices, promote Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption, and strengthen security across the platform. Your expertise will help streamline workflows, improve monitoring and logging, and ensure high availability and resilience of cloud‑based applications.

• Design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and highly available AWS infrastructure
• Use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform (with Terragrunt) and Cloud Formation (with CDK)

• Develop, optimize, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure fast and reliable software delivery
• Work primarily with Git Hub Actions

• Implement AWS security best practices
• Monitor cloud environments for vulnerabilities
• Ensure compliance with relevant industry standards

• Set up and maintain logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions
• Ensure system performance and rapid incident resolution

• Identify and implement optimizations for cost efficiency, scalability, and performance across services and infrastructure

• Work closely with development and security teams
• Streamline workflows, improve automation, and promote Dev Ops best practices

• Hands‑on experience managing and optimizing AWS Cloud environments

• Strong proficiency with Terraform and Cloud Formation

• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as:
  • Git Hub Actions
  • Git Lab CI/CD
  • AWS Code Pipeline (or similar)

• Solid understanding of AWS security best practices
• Experience building secure and reliable SDLC processes

• Hands‑on experience with AWS Cloud Watch

• Good understanding of AWS networking concepts

• Experience with Docker
• Experience deploying containerized applications using AWS ECS and/or AWS EKS
• Experience working with AWS Lambda

• Experience working in Agile teams
• Strong collaboration skills with development and security teams
• Practical application of Dev Ops principles

• Hands‑on experience managing Azure Cloud environments

• Hands‑on experience with one or more popular programming languages
• Previous experience working as a Software Engineer in an Agile team

If interested please apply for this job or send an email to k.boom(a) with your updated CV.