You contribute to socially relevant work for a secure organization. You work as a civilian within a professional government organization committed to peace and security both domestically and internationally.
What you will do. As a DevOps Engineer, you will contribute to the technical foundation of an internal service that supports employees with search, chat, and artificial intelligence functionalities. You will ensure that this service is secure, scalable, demonstrably reliable, and well-manageable. This service provides various services in the areas of search, translation, speech, and AI, functioning as an internal conversation-driven search engine.
You will oversee the entire technical chain and co-determine how the service is built, rolled out, monitored, and restored. You combine hands-on engineering with technical direction and ensure that the team works according to clear standards.
Your responsibilities include:
- Designing and improving CI/CD, GitOps, release, and exception processes.
- Designing workload blueprints and product configuration for services on Kubernetes and OpenShift.
- Setting up observability and translating technical signals into usable SLIs, SLOs, alerts, and error budget information.
- Designing and testing redeploy, rebuild, restore, and failover mechanisms.
- Leading complex technical incident analyses and structurally reducing disruptions and manual work.
- Monitoring and improving capacity, resource utilization, and the reliability of the technical environment.
- Strengthening security and reliability in the software supply chain, including automated controls and artifact verification.
- Coaching engineers and raising the technical maturity level of the team.
- Connecting the product team with architecture, platform, security, and the various Search, Chat, and AI specialisms.
What they ask
- Demonstrable HBO or WO (higher professional education or university) work and thinking level, developed through education, work experience, or a combination thereof.
- Extensive hands-on experience with product-DevOps, DevSecOps, SRE, platform engineering, or production management automation.
- Strong delivery foundation in CI/CD, declarative GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, version control, and immutable artifact promotion.
- Experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift at a production level, including deployments, RBAC/identity, network policies, probes, resources, and secrets.
- Experience with security and reliability, including software supply chain controls, vulnerability management, observability, incident analysis, and demonstrable recovery.
- Technical leadership: documenting choices in writing, influencing without direct line authority, and giving and receiving useful feedback.
- A growth mindset: using incidents, delivery data, and new developments to continuously improve the system and working methods.
Desirable.
- Experience with on-premises, classified, or limited-connectivity environments and working across security zones.
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, Elastic, or a similar observability stack.
- Knowledge of SLSA, Sigstore, policy-as-code, game days, disaster recovery, or AI/model-serving workloads.
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