Senior DevOps Engineer

At TOPIC, we work every day on high-tech innovations to make the world smarter, healthier, and better. Are you a driven and ambitious Senior DevOps Engineer with a passion for automation, CI/CD, and state-of-the-art tooling that we are looking for? As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you play a key role in enabling development teams to work efficiently by delivering stable, scalable, and automated build and deployment environments.

"Working at TOPIC gives you a flexible environment where there are amazing and challenging projects to keep on improving yourself"

Tom Verhees I Software Engineer at TOPIC Embedded Systems

What will you do as a Senior DevOps Engineer?

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you’ll boost our development process through smart automation and modern tooling. You’ll support development teams with stable, scalable CI/CD environments and help streamline workflows. Working in multidisciplinary teams, you’ll contribute to cutting-edge solutions while growing professionally and personally.

Your responsibilities as a Senior DevOps Engineer:

• Select, implement, and manage cutting-edge DevOps tools and self-service solutions

• Design, build, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines, primarily using Docker/ Kubernetes

• Leverage cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to design scalable, reliable, and efficient DevOps solutions

• Set up and optimize virtual infrastructure, including hardware integrations, (sub)system onboarding, and hardware migrations

• Manage containerized applications and microservices using Kubernetes, ensuring high availability, performance, and scalability

• Deliver end-to-end monitoring, logging, and data analytics solutions

• Write and maintain robust Python code for test automation (Robot Framework) and scripting

• Work closely with developers, testers, and other engineers to troubleshoot and resolve integration and deployment challenges. Be a sparring partner to your peers and stakeholders

• Document processes, configurations, and procedures to ensure clarity and maintainability

Requirements

What do we offer you?

This will make you smarter: 

• Strategic projects in complex high-tech environments

• Collaborate with other senior engineers and domain experts

• Opportunities to mentor colleagues and shape DevOps practices

• Access to advanced training through our TOPIC Academy

• Contribute to and lead tech events and knowledge sessions

This will make you better: 

• Permanent contract

• An all-in benefits package (€57,000 – €72,000 per year, including 13th month, mobility, pension, extra holidays)

• 26 vacation days (option to buy extra), pension scheme, relocation support

This will keep you healthy: 

• Good work-life balance, flexible hours, and hybrid working

• Inspiring office with daily fresh fruit and a gym

• Home office support for an inspiring work-from-home setup 

• Regular fun, social, and sports events

What do you bring as a Senior DevOps Engineer?

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Embedded Systems, or a related technical field.

• 5+ years of work experience as a Software Engineer in a high-tech domain or embedded systems environments.

• At least 2 years of work experience as a DevOps & Automation Engineer.

• Strong programming skills in Python, and proficient in C++ and/ or C#.

• Solid experience in setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automated build environments.

• Hands-on experience with containerization technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes.

• Practical knowledge of cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

• Familiarity with access and identity management systems (RBAC en IAM) and Agile way of working.

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or Puppet.

• You’re proactive, strategic, and solution-driven.

• Motivation to continuously improve yourself and develop new skills.

• A good command of English, and preferably Dutch language.

Our organization

Since 1996 we have been developing (embedded) systems that are essential for products manufactured by renowned high-tech companies around the world.  Our projects involve edge to cloud solutions; from PCB design and FPGA to low level embedded software and application software for UI, Web, Mo