DevOps Security Engineer
Studyportals, Netherlands
Job Description
Why?
Every year, we change the lives of millions of students and leave the world a bit brighter than we found it. This year our websites will receive over 50 million. Students around the world trust our platforms to find their best matching education. At the same time, we help educators diversify their (international) student population.
With your superpowers we will get closer to solving one of the most burning problems on Earth together: How do we effectively connect people from all around the world with global education opportunities in a relevant way?
With whom?
As a DevOps Engineer, you will assume responsibility over Studyportals’ complete infrastructure and the tooling used by our product scrum teams to place their work in the hands of students and universities worldwide. Your focus is on Security and your role is to provide guidance on secure design and software development for our scrum teams as well as owning and improving the security of our infrastructure. You are part of the Platform Operations team whose main mission is to speed up and stabilize the development process by providing tooling and services to teams to support their processes.
You are joining an existing team of three members two Back-end Engineers and one DevOps engineer who work together on supporting the scrum teams, improve and maintain our infrastructure, and CI/CD process.
What will you do?
Glad you asked.
You play an important role in further development of our infrastructure using AWS and other services. Your responsibilities range from working on the core of our platform all the way up to offering top notch support. Help us to become more scalable as a platform, by decoupling our dependencies and reducing our time to market. Staying in control of our quality is key!
Some highlights:
- Research weaknesses and possible threats and find cost-effective solutions to cybersecurity problems
- Develop best practices and security standards for the organization
- Test company software and infrastructure and seek improvements on a continuous basis
- Take an active part in the realization of the Technical Strategy by both implementation as giving input
- Collaborate within cross-functional teams towards building secure, top-notch platform improvements, services and tooling.
Let’s talk tech.
Virtually, all our systems have been developed in-house and are following modern quality standards. We work in a service-oriented architecture, powered by our own RESTful API and AWS, we are scaling up our infrastructure, moving towards Docker. Our products are powered by AWS, VueJS, Node/NPM, TypeScript, Sass, and the necessary technology to ensure fast and user friendly high-traffic websites. Often as part of our microservice architecture. Are you already interested?
Requirements
What do you need?
- About 5-7 years of experience in the web industry as DevOps Engineer
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) or any other Cloud Computing Platform (e.g. Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
- Experience with building modern applications with JavaScript (ES2017), TypeScript and NPM.
- The ability to use a wide variety of (open source) technologies and tools. You are able to select, deploy and maintain the tools required to optimise our development processes.
- A strong grasp of automation tools. You understand what and when to (or not to) automate and are able to make objective cost/benefit assessments of your proposed automations.
- Experience in building and maintaining security systems.
- Detailed technical knowledge of database and operating system security.
- Experience with network security and technologies and with system, security, and infrastructure monitoring tools. Thorough understanding of the latest security principles, techniques, and protocols.
- Good familiarity with web related technologies (Web applications, Web Services, Service Oriented Architectures) and of network/web related protocols.
- Experience in building and optimizing high traffic websites.
Are you also comfortable working independently, and pro-actively approaching other teams (in English) to build cross-team functionalities? Then apply now!
Benefits
Why us? Because- An annual personal development budget because personal growth is KEY!
- Reimbursement of your work-related travel costs.
- Competitive salary including a bonus and pension scheme.
- 0 stinginess in knowledge sharing.
- Bi-weekly HACKDAY, during which you can freely experiment with new technologies or new projects, which you choose yourself.
- Possibility to work from abroad 2 times a year.