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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