Senior DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer

DevOps / Infra Engineer | AdTech | Amsterdam | Full-time | Salary: €70K–€100K fixed, ex bonus. Bonus is negotiable, up to 20%. Must-have: Experience with OpenSearch and AWS. Coding: A plus if the DevOps hire can also code, but the priority is proven experience designing and managing scalable systems. Nice-to-haves: Ecommerce / feed processing experience, and experience with high-traffic websites. Seniority and salary bands: Genuinely senior, can code, has been a tech lead → €100K is justified.Junior, DevOps-only experience → €70K. Company We are a rapidly growing AdTech e-commerce platform and Google Premium CSS Partner. We help marketplaces, resellers, and brands generate incremental revenue through performance marketing and AI tooling that improves shopping campaigns. Our platform aggregates product listings from retailers to create a seamless shopping experience for millions of shoppers. As we scale our managed advertising, product-feed processing, and marketplace capabilities, we are building the next generation of reliable, high-performance platform infrastructure. Description We are looking for a senior, hands-on DevOps Engineer with strong systems thinking and software- engineering depth. You will ensure our infrastructure and applications can support significant growth in data volume and traffic while remaining secure, observable, cost-efficient, and reliable. You will work closely with developers and the data team to improve platform architecture, delivery workflows, search performance, and operational resilience. Why join us? Make a direct impact on a platform serving millions of shopping interactions and a growing international customer base. Take meaningful ownership of the technical roadmap as the company moves from scaling up to market leadership. Join a collaborative team that values transparent communication, fast learning, and data-driven iteration. Receive a competitive salary including holiday allowance, 25 days of annual vacation, ClassPass, a company laptop, commuting-cost compensation, two weeks of workation, company events, and professional-development opportunities including tuition reimbursement. Role You will lead the evolution of our cloud platform and delivery practices, helping us scale managed advertising and product-feed processing while keeping production systems reliable, secure, and performant. What you will do Design, automate, manage, and maintain secure, scalable AWS cloud infrastructure. Improve infrastructure architecture to support 3x growth through high-throughput, horizontally scalable systems. Own and improve CI/CD pipelines, environment management, deployment strategies, and release processes for backend, web, and mobile applications. Build and maintain infrastructure as code, containerized workloads, and Kubernetes-based services.Ensure the availability, performance, security, observability, and scalability of production systems, with a target uptime of 99.95%. Establish and maintain production logging, monitoring, alerting, metrics, configuration, and operational documentation. Investigate incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and implement durable improvements that prevent recurrence. Define and validate disaster recovery, change management, security, compliance, and risk-management controls. Work with software engineers to optimize PHP/Laravel services, SQL databases, and system integrations for the production environment. Scale and tune OpenSearch to deliver high-relevance, low-latency search experiences. Partner with the data team to improve data processing and analytics platforms, including BigQuery.Mentor engineers on infrastructure-aware development practices and contribute to technical roadmap and project-planning decisions. Our technology stack PHP, Laravel, TypeScript, and React MySQL and PostgreSQL RabbitMQ and OpenSearch AWS: RDS, EC2, EKS, VPC, and S3 Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and GitHub Actions New Relic, Grafana, and Sentry Google BigQuery What you bring 5+ years of experience as a DevOps, infrastructure, platform, or software engineer in production environments. 2+ years of hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Strong knowledge of cloud scaling patterns, including load balancing, auto-scaling, managed services, and cost-efficient infrastructure design. Experience with Linux, Docker containers, Kubernetes operations, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, configuration management, and production observability. Strong understanding of application and database performance, including SQL and PostgreSQL; PHP/Laravel optimization is highly valued. Hands-on experience scaling and tuning OpenSearch in high-traffic environments. Experience working with high-volume data platforms such as BigQuery. A security-minded, root-cause-oriented approach to systems design, incident response, and operations. Clear communication skills, a collaborative working style, and upper-intermediate English or better. About us We are a fast-growing e-commerce scale-up active in 21 European markets. We are on a mission to create the smartest and most performance-driven shopping platform in Europe. With a growing team of over 40 employees across tech, operations, marketing, and sales, we are building the foundation to support our next stage of scale.