DevOps Engineer Mobile Data Services

You reside in the Netherlands and possess excellent command of the English language, both spoken and written. You get energy from solving technical problems, discovering new possibilities, and sharing your knowledge with colleagues. Thanks to your strong communication skills, you can explain complex technical subjects clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. You effortlessly bring others along with new developments and feel at home in a dynamic environment where changes follow one another rapidly.

To fill this role successfully, you also possess:

• HBO (Higher Professional Education) working and thinking level, preferably in IT, telecom, or a technical field
• Interest in DevOps, automation, and modern IT environments
• Basic knowledge of one or more of the following technologies, acquired during your studies, internships, projects, or in your free time:
  • Kubernetes and container platforms
  • CI/CD tools such as GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or Jenkins
  • Linux
  • Scripting, for example with Python, Ansible, or Bash
• Interest in mobile networks and the technology behind 4G, 5G, and IP networks
• Willingness to participate in on-call shifts

Due to rapid developments in the market, automation is essential and it is a must to have an affinity with both IT and OT.

• A gross monthly salary of at least € 4138,- and € 6105,- depending on grading & work experience depending on your work experience, based on 40 hours
• For the hours that you are on standby, you receive an allowance of € 3.39 gross per hour. If you are called in to work, you can take the overtime worked time-for-time or have it paid out with a 25% supplement. Additionally, you receive an irregular hours allowance for work performed during irregular hours
• Fixed 13th month, part of which is paid monthly and part in January of the following year. Or, you can put it towards a FLEX & BOOST goal of your choice! Click here to read more about it
• An annual individual and collective increase in accordance with our CAO
• € 1500 per year in availability budget that you may use at your own discretion for, for example, training, coaching, and courses
• Flexible days off: our colleagues may decide for themselves (in consultation with the manager) how they manage their leave
• A good work-life balance (such as 2 days in the office, 3 days at home, transition leave, exchanging a public holiday for a holiday of your religious or cultural preference)
• Home office workshop to optimally set up your workspace at home, including a mobile phone & laptop, of course
• 50% discount on our products and services, so you can browse the internet, call, and stream affordably
• Good travel expense reimbursement: you receive full reimbursement for your public transport costs or € 0.23 per kilometer if you travel by car. Prefer to come by bike? Then you can claim our bicycle allowance of € 0.40 per kilometer
• Possibility to purchase a lease bike that KPN contributes to monthly (with an indefinite contract): from city bikes to e-bikes and from racing bikes to speed-pedelecs; you choose what you ride
• Excellent pension conditions: a total contribution of 25% of your pensionable salary, of which KPN contributes 17.5% and you 7.5%

The Netherlands is digitalizing at a breakneck pace. We shop online, work from home more often, and arrange more and more matters digitally. Secure, reliable, and fast internet is therefore becoming increasingly important. KPN wants to make the Netherlands the best-connected country in the world. The mobile core is among the fastest-changing parts of the KPN network. New technologies such as 5G Standalone and Network Slicing are being introduced at a rapid pace. For this, new platforms must be implemented, existing functionality must be migrated, and old functionality must be decommissioned. 

As a DevOps Engineer Packet Switched Core, you will work in a multidisciplinary DevOps team within the Mobile Core domain. Together, you will manage one of the most critical parts of the network. The atmosphere is open, direct, and focused on quality and reliability. You will be given space to experiment, learn, and improve – every single day. We find it important to meet each other regularly. Therefore, we typically work together in the office in Rotterdam two days per week.

As a DevOps Engineer Packet Switched Core, you will work at the heart of our mobile infrastructure, where innovation, stability, and scalability converge. You ensure that millions of consumers, businesses, emergency services, and other vital organizations always remain connected. With your expertise, you contribute to the availability, automation, and continuous improvement of our mobile core services. You do this with a strong intrinsic drive to continuously make processes, systems, and services smarter and better.

Your work has a direct impact on the quality of our mobile services. You ensure that data traffic flows smoothly through the network, prevent outages before they occur, and make the network faster, more stable, and future-proof. Whether it concerns the implementation of new 5G functionalities, the introduction of innovative services, or the optimization of existing platforms: your solutions make a difference every day for millions of users.

Your responsibilities:

• Managing and automating Mobile Core platforms (4G/5G Packet Core)
• Using CI/CD pipelines for automated management of network functions
• Monitoring, analyzing, and improving performance, stability, and security
• Troubleshooting complex issues in collaboration with technical and commercial departments
• Participating in standby/on-call shifts to ensure the continuity of critical systems

Don't meet all the bullets? We still cordially invite you to respond.

Our belief in technology is great. This becomes even more powerful together with human contact, which is why we would love to meet you!

Want to know more? Contact our recruiter Szilvia via szilvia.haraszti@kpn.com. 

At KPN, we have recruitment talent that works together smartly and thus wins. Therefore, acquisition in response to this vacancy is not appreciated.