DevOps Engineer

Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Hybrid · Amsterdam, Netherlands
Experience
Senior · 6+ years

Job description

DevOps Engineer at SkinVision responsible for building, scaling and securing the AWS infrastructure behind its AI-driven skin cancer detection platform. The role combines hands-on operations with defining a target infrastructure architecture and roadmap.

At a glance

Employment
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid · Amsterdam, Netherlands

What you'll do

  • Design, build, and manage AWS-based infrastructure, ensuring high availability, scalability, and cost efficiency
  • Implement and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation
  • Automate environment provisioning, configuration, and deployments using CI/CD pipelines
  • Ensure system resilience, security, and performance through automated monitoring and alerting
  • Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines to support rapid, reliable, and safe deployments across environments
  • Manage deployment workflows using Argo CD and Kubernetes
  • Collaborate with developers and ML engineers to streamline build, test, and release processes
  • Integrate automated testing, rollback strategies, and version control into the deployment lifecycle
  • Build a comprehensive observability stack using Datadog for metrics, logs, traces, and alerts
  • Define service-level objectives (SLOs), service-level indicators (SLIs), and dashboards for system performance
  • Proactively detect and resolve performance bottlenecks, capacity issues, and reliability risks
  • Create automated health checks and ensure visibility across production systems
  • Implement security best practices for AWS, containers, and CI/CD pipelines
  • Manage identity, access, and secret handling (IAM, Secrets Manager, Parameter Store)
  • Ensure compliance with medical device standards and data privacy regulations (GDPR, HIPAA)
  • Partner with the Information Security Officer to embed security controls across infrastructure and deployments
  • Lead incident response and root cause analysis for infrastructure or deployment-related issues
  • Establish SLAs and operational runbooks for production environments
  • Continuously improve system reliability through chaos testing, redundancy, and fault tolerance
  • Mentor engineers on DevOps principles, observability practices, and infrastructure automation
  • Assess the current infrastructure and deployment setup, and form a well-reasoned view of how it should evolve
  • Define and maintain a target architecture for the cloud platform, balancing reliability, scalability, security, and cost
  • Translate the target vision into a practical roadmap and drive its implementation incrementally, alongside day-to-day operations
  • Document and communicate architectural decisions, aligning with engineering and leadership on technical direction

What we're looking for

  • Minimum of 6 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure roles
  • Strong expertise with AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, Lambda, etc.)
  • Expert in Kubernetes and Argo CD, deploying and managing production-grade custom Helm charts with secure, automated GitOps workflows in EKS
  • Advanced knowledge of CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar)
  • Proficiency in Datadog for observability, monitoring, and alerting
  • Strong scripting and automation skills in Python, Bash, or Go
  • Experience managing infrastructure with Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible
  • Familiarity with networking fundamentals, load balancing, and API gateway configuration
  • Excellent problem-solving and incident management skills
  • A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
  • Currently based in the Netherlands

Nice to have

  • Experience in regulated industries such as healthcare, MedTech, or FinTech
  • Familiarity with multi-environment architecture (staging, pre-prod, production) and blue-green deployments
  • Exposure to event-driven systems, message queues, and data streaming (Kafka, SNS/SQS)
  • Understanding of Zero Trust networking and cloud security best practices
  • Experience in cost optimization and performance tuning in AWS
  • Certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or Terraform Associate

Benefits

  • A competitive salary, additional benefits, and a hybrid working policy
  • A vibrant, dynamic, and rapidly growing scale-up in Amsterdam
  • An enthusiastic, professional, and international team
  • Regular team events, including off-sites and fun activities
  • Unlimited skin checks for you

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About SkinVision

SkinVision, founded in Amsterdam in 2012, uses a proprietary AI certified as a Class IIa medical device under EU regulation, with over 90% sensitivity and 89% specificity, to help people detect early signs of skin cancer. It has helped nearly 3 million people worldwide, has a database of more than 6 million skin spot assessments, and can reach 20 million people through insurer partnerships. High-risk cases are reviewed by a team of dermatologists.

Mission

Making early detection of skin cancer accessible to everyone, everywhere.

Key facts

  • 2012
  • Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • MedTech / digital health
  • Proprietary AI certified as a Class IIa medical device under EU regulation
  • Over 90% sensitivity and 89% specificity
  • Has helped nearly 3 million people worldwide
  • Database of more than 6 million skin spot assessments
  • Can reach 20 million people through insurer partnerships
  • High-risk cases reviewed by a team of dermatologists