DevOps engineer

As a DevOps engineer, you are jointly responsible for managing various web-based applications and services, seeking the optimal balance between stability, security, and availability. You perform maintenance, troubleshoot issues, and implement improvements. Are you the DevOps engineer who will join our Multidisciplinary Team Hosting & Deployment Services? We offer an excellent collective labor agreement (CAO) and a challenging work environment.
We, as a team, ensure a stable application hosting environment, allowing our colleagues in education and research to provide the best quality to our students and clients. You will become part of a team of five colleagues who are collectively responsible for our application hosting and deployment.

Your new job
Using agile methodologies, you will work in a team of five specialists with whom you share knowledge and collaboratively seek the best solutions for our users' applications and standardize and simplify application deployment and management. Our applications run on both Windows and Linux environments. Many applications operate in our own data centers, but you also support deploying applications in our Azure cloud and the integrations between them. Increasingly, we deploy applications in containers on our own Kubernetes cluster for greater flexibility and reduced management burden. We achieve this through pipelines and automating deployments. You identify repetitive tasks and develop and implement solutions to automate these tasks and enable less experienced users to perform them. You leverage market tools or design solutions as needed to automate these processes.
What we expect from you:

• Advising users on the most effective platform for their applications;
• Troubleshooting supported applications;
• Setting up the production environment for new users and applications after a successful Proof of Concept to manage them;
• Keeping existing applications stable and monitored, and resolving incidents and disruptions;
• Implementing upgrades and patches;
• Monitoring the environment and improving the tooling for it;
• Automating recurring management tasks

We use version management, pipelines, and scripting for automation. Proficiency in reading, writing, and using pipelines and scripts is essential. Our team also focuses on devising, designing, and implementing innovations and standardizations in our environments to make them more stable, secure, and effective. You will have ample opportunities to develop yourself and stay up-to-date with market developments by attending training and conferences.
At WUR, our applications are intensively used. For example, they support our researchers in conducting groundbreaking research, allowing you to make a significant contribution to our mission: "to explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life."

You are
An independent and eager IT professional with a DevOps mindset. You enjoy collaborating with other professionals and various stakeholders in an agile environment. You are proactive, communicative, and have an affinity with educational and research processes. Additionally, you are analytical but also solution- and customer-oriented. You are resourceful and possess the drive and organizational talent to get things done. You are creative and constantly seek new solutions to make existing applications more effective and enable new functionalities. You have a keen eye for the security, availability, stability, and scalability of the delivered applications.

Moreover, you have:

• Demonstrable HBO-level working and thinking skills;
• Knowledge of and experience with Windows and Linux;
• Experience with technical application management;
• Knowledge of and experience with Octopus, ArgoCD, Jenkins, GIT, and scripting in Powershell and Bash;
• Knowledge of the Azure cloud;
• Knowledge of and experience with Kubernetes (CKAD certification or willingness to obtain it);
• An ingrained sense of security;
• Proficiency in both Dutch and English (the team primarily communicates in Dutch, but in our international environment, English is increasingly used)

Our IT teams work according to scrum and agile methodologies. Collaboration, communication, transparency, and continuous feedback are essential. The team works two days a week on campus and can choose to work the remaining days from home, promoting focus and a healthy work-life balance.
We warmly invite you to apply even if you do not yet have the knowledge and experience we require but possess the right competencies and ambition to fulfill this challenging role.

highlights from our Collective Labour Agreement include:

• working hours that can be discussed and arranged so that they allow for the best possible work-life balance;
• the option to accrue additional compensation hours by working more, per week;
• sabbatical leave, study leave, and partially paid parental leave;
• there is a strong focus on vitality and you can make use of the sports facilities available on campus for a small fee;
• a fixed December bonus of 8,3%;
• excellent pension scheme.

In addition to these first-rate employee benefits, you will of course receive a good salary. We offer, depending on your experience, a competitive gross salary of between € 3.166 and € 5.035 for a full-time working week of 36 hours, in accordance with the CLA Wageningen Research (scale 9-10). Additionally, a contract for 0,8 FTE can be discussed. You will initially receive a one-year contract, which will be extended to an open-ended contract upon in mutual enthusiasm.
Wageningen University & Research encourages internal advancement opportunities and mobility with an internal recruitment policy. There are plenty of options for personal initiative in a learning environment, and we provide excellent training opportunities. We are offering a multi-faceted position in an international environment with a pleasant and open working atmosphere.
You are going to work at the greenest and most innovative campus in Holland, and at a university that has been chosen as the “Best University” in the Netherlands for the 19th consecutive time.

Coming from abroad
Wageningen University & Research is the university and research centre for life sciences. The themes we deal with are relevant to everyone around the world and Wageningen, therefore, has a large international community and a lot to offer to international employees.
Our team of advisors on Dutch immigration procedures will help you with the visa application procedures for yourself and, if applicable, for your family.
Feeling welcome also has everything to do with being well informed. Wageningen University & Research's International Community page contains practical information about what we can do to support international employees and students coming to Wageningen. Furthermore, we can assist you with any additional advice and information about for example helping your partner to find a job, housing, or schooling. Finally, certain categories of international staff may be eligible for a tax exemption on a part of their salary during the first five years in the Netherlands.

Wageningen University & Research

Wageningen University & Research
The mission of Wageningen University & Research is “To explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life”. Under the banner Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen University and the specialised research institutes of the Wageningen Research Foundation have joined forces in contributing to finding solutions to important questions in the domain of healthy food and living environment. With its roughly 30 branches, 7,600 employees (6,700 fte) and 13,100 students and over 150,000 participants to WUR’s Life Long Learning, Wageningen University & Research is one of the leading organisations in its domain. The unique Wageningen approach lies in its integrated approach to issues and the collaboration between different disciplines.
Read the 5 reasons why your future colleagues enjoy working at WUR and watch this video to get an idea of our green campus!
We will recruit for the vacancy ourselves, so no employment agencies please. However, sharing in your network is appreciated.