Professional System Engineer (DevOps, 80-100%, Remote (NL))

Are you passionate about automation and transforming the way businesses operate through cutting-edge open-source technology? At Adfinis, we're not just another staffing agency; we're a project-driven organization committed to modernizing infrastructure and empowering our clients with the best of open-source solutions. And we're looking for someone just like you!

We're thrilled to announce that we're expanding our team in The Netherlands and are on the lookout for a Professional DevOps System Engineer who shares our enthusiasm for innovation and excellence.

Adfinis has a focus on providing services for our partners, we have been awarded the **GitLab EMEA Services Partner of the Year 2023** and **HashiCorp EMEA Focus Partner of the Year 2023**.

**Join Adfinis – Where Your Open Source Passion Meets Innovation!**

## Tasks

As a Professional DevOps Engineer, you work on customer projects, solve engineering challenges, and support our customers as part of our managed services team.

Your task and duties will include:

• verifying specified requirements and handling isolated problems and optimizations
• maintaining, configuring, and upgrading unmanaged services (e.g., GitLab instances, single Vault clusters) and advanced applications
• creating main components of a documentation from scratch
• providing in-depth technical support and assistance, solving specialized issues, and eliminating the causes of malfunctions, if necessary in cooperation with software suppliers
• implementing existing products and customizing them to meet specific customer requirements

## Requirements

**Must-Have Hard Skills**

• You have at least two years of work experience as a system engineer in a Linux-centric environment.
• You have good knowledge in current open-source technologies as well as Cloud and DevOps customer journeys and/or enterprise IT requirements (e.g., Web/app servers, networking, database, virtualization, containers, Linux systems management).
• You can write code that includes basic error handling routines such as catching and displaying error messages or logging errors for further analysis.
• You can fix existing automations and write and implement new ones that execute simple changes (e.g., managing cloud service) and are triggered automatically.
• You are able to understand systems as a whole (i.e., the relationships between elements within a platform/technology) from a technical point of view.

**Must-Have Soft Skills**

• **Reliability**: You strive for high-quality results, pay attention to detail, are dependable, adhere to established processes, and take responsibility for your actions and decisions.
• **Collaboration**: You contribute to team efforts, work toward shared goals, provide and seek help, and build rapport with team members.
• **Dedication**: You maintain motivation and enthusiasm for your work, actively pursue challenges, work hard to meet or exceed expectations, and focus on solutions rather than problems.
• **Self-Management**: You set and pursue personal goals, cultivate and maintain intrinsic motivation, focus on relevant matters, and sustain personal productivity despite distractions.
• **Initiative**: You solve problems independently, take on new tasks and responsibilities, make autonomous decisions, seize opportunities, and voice opinions and concerns.

**Nice-to-Haves**

• You have experience with GitLab, HashiCorp and/or RedHat products
• You have GitLab, HashiCorp, Red Hat and/or SUSE certifications.
• You have AWS, Azure and/or GCP certifications.

## Benefits

• **Open Source Culture**: Transparency, collaboration, and community not only shape our technology choices and business model but also define the very core of our company's identity.
• **Freedom of Choice**: Emacs or Vim? Ubuntu, Fedora, Manjaro, Mac OS X, or Arch btw? You are free to work with your favorite toolset.
• **Attractive Working Environment**: We're a value-driven, owner-operated company with an informal atmosphere, direct and uncomplicated communication, and short decision-making paths.
• **Team lunches**: Once a week we get together for a good lunch to promote team-spirit an collaboration. This is not mandatory but appreciated.
• **Growth and Training**: We are committed to our employees' growth and development, investing in their training and certifications, and providing opportunities to attend conferences.
• **Great Flexibility**: Whether you prefer full-time or part-time work, in-office or remote options–we will find a work arrangement that fits your situation.

Are you interested? Coen Hamers and his team will be happy to review your application.

We are looking forward to getting to know you!