DevOps Platform Engineer

DevOps Platform Engineer (RHEL) | Own the payments engine infrastructure | Major Dutch Bank A major Dutch bank is expanding the DevOps engineering team behind its state-of-the-art payments and settlement platform. You'll take ownership of Linux (RHEL) platform operations for payment engines, APIs and microservices built on Java and Spring, automating relentlessly with Ansible, Python and Azure DevOps/GitHub pipelines. The team is pushing hard on observability (Prometheus, Grafana, OTEL, ELK) and full lifecycle ownership from deployment through disaster recovery, with real scope to shape how a high-productivity DevOps squad works. There's flexibility to work from home, with an office in a garden setting when you want to come in. About the role This is a hands-on platform engineering role within an independent unit reporting directly into the bank's CTO domain, working in an Agile/Scrum squad alongside a Technical Product Owner. You'll take ownership of issues end to end, from root cause analysis through to sustainable fixes, and help drive continuous deployment across the payments platform. You will: Manage configuration via Ansible and deploy through Azure DevOps/GitHub pipelines, automating repetitive operational tasks with Python and Shell scriptingOwn Linux (RHEL) platform operations: stability, performance, security patching, certificate and access lifecycle managementImprove monitoring and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, OTEL and the ELK Stack, and support HA/DR testingAnalyze logs, metrics and traces to proactively catch issues and performance bottlenecks before they become incidents Who are you? 5+ years in a DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering or Linux Engineering roleStrong hands-on RHEL administration and Ansible automation experienceCI/CD experience with Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Actions/PipelinesMonitoring/observability experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OTEL, and/or ELK StackComfortable automating deployments and operations with Python and Shell scriptingFluent English About Levy Professionals Since 2000 we provide professional solutions to organizations ranging from tech start-ups to global players. From our offices in Amsterdam and London we have built an international and local network of skilled employed professionals and contractors fuelled by our passion for connecting skills with projects. Over the years we have fulfilled over 2500 requirements and nowadays we consistently have 250+ professionals recruited and relocated from 14 countries allocated to various projects. Our strength is the way that we see and treat people. This will always be a key factor in our strategy for many years to come.