Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer
Summary
Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer at Sioux Technologies in the Netherlands designs and improves Google Cloud-based platforms (GKE, Terraform, Argo CD) with CI/CD automation via GitHub Actions, Bash, and Python, while driving reliability, security, observability, and incident prevention for high-tech product development teams.
In this role you design and optimize cloud and DevOps platforms to support high-tech software for challenging projects. You collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure. You’ll drive platform improvements, incident prevention, and observability to enable efficient product development. The work combines cloud engineering with hands-on automation in a fast-paced, innovation-focused environment.
Arbeidsvoorwaarden / Benefits- Flexible 32-40 hour week
- Remote work option
- 28 holidays (+12 optional)
- Personal coaching
- Training budget 6000 per year
- Team events and knowledge sessions
- Build and improve Google Cloud infrastructure (GKE, IAM, networking, load balancing)
- Maintain CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Google Cloud Build, automated with Bash and Python
- Manage infrastructure with Terraform and GitOps deployments with Argo CD
- Enhance platform reliability, security, performance, scalability and operational excellence
- Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability
- Translate user and stakeholder needs into sustainable platform improvements
- Provide operational support, resolve incidents, and prevent recurrence via root-cause analysis
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a technical field
- 5+ years in DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, or Cloud Engineering
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, automation, and Infrastructure as Code
- Strong knowledge of observability, reliability, security, and operational excellence
- Structured approach to problem diagnosis, impact communication, root-cause analysis, and corrective action
- Service-oriented mindset focused on user needs and continuous improvement
- Strong communication, teamwork, stakeholder management, and knowledge-sharing skills
- Agile experience, ownership of outcomes, and preferably Python or scripting skills
- communication
- teamwork
- stakeholder management
- Google Cloud Platform
- GKE
- IAM