Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer

**Job Title:** Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer **Location:** Amsterdam or Munich **Employment Type:** Full-time **About the company:** Our client is a global digital distributor of electronic components, transforming how modern businesses bring products to market. **Job Summary:** We are seeking a Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer to build and support the delivery platform, release process, environments, automation, monitoring, and operational tooling used by engineering teams. This hands-on technical role will help engineering teams deliver software more reliably, reduce production risk, minimize manual deployment work, and resolve environment-related blockers. **Responsibilities:** * Design, build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines for internal applications and business-critical systems. * Support release automation and deployment processes across development, QA, UAT, staging, and production environments. * Improve environment consistency, configuration management, deployment repeatability, and rollback readiness. * Work with software engineers, QA, DBAs, infrastructure, and security teams to make releases safer and more predictable. * Support Azure DevOps repositories, pipelines, boards, release processes, work tracking, and related engineering tooling where applicable. * Help define and enforce practical release readiness expectations, including build quality, test execution, deployment validation, database migration coordination, monitoring readiness, and rollback planning. * Build and maintain automation scripts, operational tools, deployment utilities, and self-service capabilities that reduce manual work and operational errors. * Support monitoring, logging, metrics, alerting, and observability for applications, services, jobs, pipelines, environments, and production dependencies. * Participate in L2 / L3 triage for build failures, deployment issues, environment problems, performance symptoms, and production incidents. * Contribute to root cause analysis after release, deployment, platform, or environment-related incidents and help define practical remediation actions. * Identify fragile deployment steps, undocumented dependencies, manual processes, configuration drift, and environment-related single points of failure. * Partner with DBA / Data Platform teams to coordinate database scripts, migration validation, backup / recovery considerations, and data-related deployment risks. * Partner with Infrastructure & Security teams on servers, network dependencies, identity, access, certificates, secrets, vulnerability remediation, and platform security controls. * Improve developer experience by reducing build times, deployment friction, environment blockers, and unclear release processes. * Create and maintain practical documentation, runbooks, deployment instructions, troubleshooting guides, and operational procedures. * Ensure DevOps / platform work is tracked, communicated, and prioritized through agreed tools and processes, including Azure DevOps where applicable. **Required Qualifications (Must-Haves):** * 5+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, release engineering, site reliability engineering, systems engineering, or similar hands-on roles. * Strong hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation for production software systems. * Practical experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar CI/CD and engineering workflow tools. * Experience supporting multiple application environments such as development, QA, UAT, staging, and production. * Strong scripting and automation skills using PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar tools. * Experience with release management, deployment validation, rollback planning, environment troubleshooting, and production support. * Understanding of application hosting concepts, web servers, APIs, background jobs, scheduled tasks, configuration management, certificates, secrets, and service dependencies. * Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational visibility tools. * Ability to work with software engineers, QA, DBAs, infrastructure engineers, security teams, Product / Delivery Managers, and business stakeholders. * Ability to diagnose build failures, deployment failures, environment issues, configuration problems, access problems, and production symptoms in a structured way. * Understanding of security practices in software delivery, including least privilege, secrets management, access control, vulnerability remediation, and auditability. * Practical experience with Git-based workflows, branching strategies, pull requests, release tagging, and deployment traceability. * Clear communication skills with ability to explain platform risks, release blockers, deployment issues, and operational tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders. * High ownership mindset, good judgment, and ability to make practical decisions under pressure. **Preferred Qualifications (Nice-to-Haves):** * Experience with Microsoft-based enterprise environments, including Windows Server, IIS, .NET applications, SQL Server-backed systems, Active Directory, and service accounts. * Hands-on background with Azure cloud services, Azure DevOps, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, or Microsoft-oriented delivery tooling. * Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, Pulumi, Ansible, or similar tools. * Practical knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, container registries, Helm, or container-based deployment models where they are practical for the environment. * Familiarity with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP beyond the Microsoft ecosystem. * Working knowledge of observability tools such as Zabbix, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK / OpenSearch, Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, Azure Monitor, or similar tools. * Background working with artifact repositories, package management, dependency scanning, static analysis, and software supply chain controls. * Understanding of DevSecOps practices, security scanning, vulnerability management, policy-as-code, or pipeline-integrated security controls. * Prior work supporting ERP, warehouse, internal business platforms, B2B transaction systems, e-commerce, supply chain, logistics, or similar business-critical environments. * Track record of improving DevOps maturity in an organization where process, ownership, and documentation are still developing. * Familiarity with cost optimization, license awareness, and practical platform efficiency improvements.