DevOps Engineer - Linux/Kubernetes

About the role

Combine your Linux and Kubernetes skills in a mission-critical environment

Please note: We are only considering candidates who are currently living and working in the Netherlands. We do not provide relocation sponsorship.

About Schuberg Philis At Schuberg Philis, we specialize in mission-critical IT. We partner closely with our customers to ensure their most vital systems run smoothly, securely, and reliably.

Our engineers are T-shaped professionals: they combine deep technical expertise with a broad, collaborative mindset and a strong focus on customer satisfaction. Working in dedicated, cross-functional, self-steering Customer Teams, we take ownership of complex challenges and co-create solutions that align with our customers’ goals.

Our work ranges from designing and building robust systems to managing secure, business-critical platforms. We automate wherever possible, support customer teams and developers with their applications, and ensure platforms remain secure, up to date, and available.

Our ideal candidate We are looking for a T-shaped engineer with a proven track record in operating and improving complex, mission-critical environments.

Core technical skills

- Strong experience with Linux environments, including Debian and Red Hat administration, scripting, and security.

- Hands-on experience with cloud-native infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD (GitLab CI), and certificate management.

- Experience with automation products like Ansible or Chef

- Experience scripting and interacting with APIs using Bash or Python.

- Experience with technical application management and troubleshooting of Python-based applications, including APIs and automation

- Experience building and maintaining on-premises and cloud-based Kubernetes environments, including multi-tenant clusters, containers and helm charts.

- Experience with database performance tuning and troubleshooting, for example MySQL and MongoDB.

- Expertise in monitoring and observability tooling, such as Cilium, Hubble, and Datadog.

Kubernetes and security

- Strong experience with Linux environments, including Debian and Red Hat administration, scripting, and security.

- Strong knowledge of Kubernetes networking and security.

- Cluster and workload hardening.

- Experience with Cilium, or another CNI.

- Experience with NGINX Ingress Controller.

- Familiarity with storage solutions such as Portworx.

- Experience securing containerized environments and Kubernetes clusters.

- Strong troubleshooting skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks and security issues across a complex landscape.

Networking

- Solid L2/L3 networking fundamentals outside of Kubernetes: switching, routing, BGP, BFD, and SNMP, distributed and edge firewalling (for example Palo Alto), and connectivity such as leased lines.