Senior Automation Engineer

Greetings! We are looking for a Senior Automation Engineer Location: Netherlands / Belgium Experience: 5–8+ years Job Type: Remote/Onsite Work Type: Freelancer

Key Responsibilities Design and deliver automation that enables secure, repeatable and compliant deployment of customer‑specific Digital Sovereign Private Cloud (DSPC) environments.

Translate customer and platform requirements into automated provisioning, deployment and operational workflows.

Build and maintain CI/CD, GitOps and Infrastructure‑as‑Code foundations to ensure controlled, auditable and scalable delivery.

Implement release, configuration and deployment automation using tools such as ArgoCD, Helm, YAML and pipeline frameworks.

Automate provisioning, configuration and lifecycle management of platform components.

Embed security scanning, compliance validation, testing and approval flows into delivery pipelines.

Ensure all automation aligns with sovereign, security and compliance baselines defined by the DSPC platform.

Implement pipelines that deploy directly into customer environments in a controlled, traceable and auditable manner.

Support customer acceptance testing, controlled releases and deployment requests.

Continuously improve automation reliability, observability, error handling and rollback mechanisms.

Collaborate with platform, security and reliability engineers to embed operational standards as code.

Support audits, security validations and compliance evidence generation through automated controls and reporting.

Required Skills & Experience Strong hands‑on experience with CI/CD and GitOps tools such as GitLab, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Tekton or similar.

Proven experience designing and operating automation for production‑grade environments.

Solid understanding of Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift platform concepts.

Strong experience with Infrastructure‑as‑Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible or similar.

Experience integrating security, compliance and quality controls into automated delivery pipelines.

Strong problem‑solving skills with a focus on reliability and repeatability.

Self‑driven, detail‑oriented team player with a strong DevSecOps mindset.

Fluent in English & Dutch.

If you are interested kindly share your cv to bhuvaneshwari.s@cloudorbit.tech