Platform/DevOps Engineer
Platform/DevOps engineer at Wolk (Utrecht, NL) who designs cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes clusters for clients and for Databaas, the company's sovereign data & AI platform. Core stack: Terraform/OpenTofu, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD across EU clouds like Scaleway and OVH.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Netherlands
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Already lives in the Netherlands
- 4+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or infrastructure role
- Comfortable with containers and orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (OpenTofu, Terraform, or similar)
- Cloud-agnostic, comfortable across cloud providers including European ones like Scaleway
- Proactive and comfortable making decisions independently
- Good communicator, fluent in English
Nice to have
- Experience building or operating SaaS platforms
- Networking, security, and observability in cloud-native environments
- Experience with open-source tooling and communities
- Data infrastructure experience (data pipelines, lakehouses)
Full description
Join Wolk: build the platform for sustainable innovation
Please keep in mind that we require all our applicants to already live in the Netherlands.
About Wolk
At Wolk, we're on an exciting mission to create meaningful change through the power of data and AI. We are a young, growing company aiming to accelerate sustainable innovation with modern data solutions. We partner with forward-thinking companies that contribute to a more sustainable future. With data driven insights, we help them make informed decisions and optimize operations. For more info, you can check out our website: https://www.wolk.work/.
We're currently also building Databaas, our own sovereign data & AI platform. It is built on open source tooling and runs on any EU cloud. We want this platform to compete with Databricks and Snowflake, which are not available on EU clouds, and we need you to take it to the next level. More info about the product here: https://www.databaas.eu/
Role overview: what you will do
- Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for our clients and our own products
- Shape the platform architecture behind Databaas, our sovereign data platform, and help bring it to market as a SaaS product
- Work with Infrastructure as Code (we like terraform / OpenTofu) to keep environments reproducible and scalable
- Set up and manage Kubernetes clusters across diverse environments, from European cloud providers (Scaleway, OVH) to customer-managed clusters
- Collaborate with our data & AI engineers to make sure they have solid, reliable infrastructure to build on
- Occasionally work directly with clients to understand their infrastructure needs and translate them into solutions
- Be a key player in our growing, impact-driven organization
- Periodically pick up an on-call shift
This role may be for you if
- You're passionate about using technology for positive change
- You have 4+ years of experience in a DevOps, platform engineering, or infrastructure role
- You're comfortable with containers and orchestration. Kubernetes and Docker are your bread and butter
- You have hands-on experience with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI and ArgoCD
- You know your way around Infrastructure as Code (OpenTofu, Terraform, or similar)
- You're cloud-agnostic at heart, comfortable working across different cloud providers, including European ones like Scaleway
- You enjoy automating things that shouldn't be manual