Senior DevOps Engineer

Company Description NOWATCH is an Amsterdam-based health innovation company for the curious. By blending cutting-edge technology with the leading science around mental health, we explore the frontiers of wellbeing. The NOWATCH Awareable is our flagship product, and the first step on our journey towards helping people recover from stress quickly and enjoy more meaningful lives – because Time is NOW. NOWATCH pioneers in the wearable market with new algorithms and sensors. Our hardware and software solution is part of a large and growing wearable industry. NOWATCH is backed by strong investors with teams in Amsterdam (NL), Oulu (Finland), Santa Barbara (USA), Djapur (INDIA). For more information, visit www.nowatch.com. Job Description We are looking for a talented Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, and maintain our critical infrastructure and automate our software delivery pipelines. You should have a deep affinity for scalable systems, cloud technologies (especially AWS), and ensuring the reliability and security of our services. If you are a curious and self-driven, eager to drive innovation in infrastructure automation, with a keen ability to optimize processes and troubleshoot complex systems, we would love to hear from you. Key Responsibilities Designing, implementing, and managing robustCI/CD pipelinesfor continuous integration, delivery, and deployment.

Developing and maintainingInfrastructure as Code (IaC)using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation to ensure consistent and reproducible environments.

Managing and optimizing our cloud infrastructure onAWS, including compute, storage, networking, and database services.

Implementing and overseeing comprehensivemonitoring, logging, and alertingsolutions to ensure system health and performance.

Automating operational tasks and developing scripts to streamline workflows and reduce manual effort.

Collaborating with development teams to ensure infrastructure supports application needs and to embedDevSecOpsbest practices throughout the software lifecycle.

Ensuring high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery for all critical systems.

Troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues and participating in incident response and post-mortems.

Staying informed on industry best practices and emerging technologies in cloud, automation, and DevOps.

Qualifications Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in a DevOps, Site Reliability, or similar infrastructure-focused engineering role.

Demonstrable history of planning, leading, and executing projects related to infrastructure automation and cloud deployments.

Proven experience designing, implementing, and managingCI/CD pipelines(e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions).

Expertise withInfrastructure as Code (IaC)tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or similar.

Extensive hands-on experience withAWSservices (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, Lambda, ECS/EKS, CloudWatch, IAM, etc.).

Strong proficiency incontainerization(Docker) andorchestration(Kubernetes).

Excellent scripting skills (e.g.,Python, Bash, Go) for automation and tooling.

Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Splunk).

Solid understanding of networking concepts, security principles, and best practices in cloud environments.

Creative thinker, able to think critically about system architecture and operational efficiency.

Ability to relay complex technical insights in clear, concise terms to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What we offer Work experience in a global Startup Tech company with room for personal development

The chance to be part of a young and ambitious team of internationals

A broad scope of responsibilities through which you can learn and expand your skill set

Apple MacBook

NOWATCH of choice

Flexible working hours

Location of Amsterdam with ability to work partly from home

Great team, culture and place to work with quarterly team days

WE AND YOU We are a small team of very enthusiastic, hard-working people. We go at the speed of trust and make our own rules to create the best possible environment for our team. You'll definitely fit in if you have a hands-on and positive approach, think outside your own department, and wanna join our movement in helping people get more from each moment in life.

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