DevOps Engineer

• You have gained several years of experience as a DevOps Engineer.

• You have experience with containers and you know how to deploy applications to a Kubernetes cluster.

• You have experience with Cloud Providers and Infrastructure as a Code tools.

• You have knowledge of GitOps and CI/CD Tooling.

• You are primarily focused on Operations. You are co-responsible for our DevOps approach: you build it, you run it.

• In general, you pick things up quickly and work in a solution-oriented manner.

• You are willing to participate in on-call shifts with the team outside of working hours.

The NOS is an inspiring place where social relevance, technology, and teamwork come together.

You will work with passionate colleagues who bring a lot of expertise and love to learn from - and with - each other.

This is what else you can expect from us:

• A gross monthly salary between € 3,449.57 and € 5,056.94 based on 36 hours. The role falls into scale G of our CAO* and is based on a 36-hour work week. The salary you receive will match your knowledge and experience.

• On top of that, you will receive a €52 gross contribution toward your health insurance, 8% holiday allowance, 6% end-of-year bonus, and annual periodic growth.

• A one-year contract for 32-36 hours per week, with the intention to extend.

• A good pension scheme, a significant discount on your gym membership, and on the streaming service NLZIET.

• More than 5 weeks of vacation.

• Hardware and OS of your choice.

• In our building, you can make use of a quiet room, a separate pumping room, and a company restaurant.

• A contribution toward your travel expenses. A train station within walking distance and a free parking space at the door.

• Plenty of room to further develop your talents! Our own NOS Academy offers training that makes you better at your craft and advances your career. Additionally, you will receive a personal career budget.

• Personal Time: time to work on your own project.

At the NOS, we want to be a reflection of society in both our reporting and our workforce. Do you contribute to this? Then we would love for you to come work with us.

* a link to the CAO for Broadcasting Staff can be found at the bottom.

Are you an enthusiastic DevOps Engineer who wants to work for the #1 news platform in the Netherlands?

Then NOS Digitale Media has a place for you!

As a DevOps Engineer, you will work within the NOS platform team. This team consists of eight colleagues and ensures the continuity and high availability of our platform.

• You are responsible for the setup, management, and security of our Cloud services, including AWS, GCP, and European Cloud providers.

• You are responsible for monitoring and helping colleagues with the use of the hosting platform, based on Kubernetes.

• You work closely with the team on maintaining and improving our CI/CD pipelines, using tools such as GitHub Actions and Argo CD. This enables us to release new releases frequently and with confidence.

• You support developers from other teams in making their developed software ready for release.

• As a person who liaises with our hosting partner NPO, you coordinate to ensure the continuity of the platform.

• Your focus lies on performance, caching, and integration with external applications. Additionally, you contribute ideas for new features of our products.

(Hilversum / remote | 32-36 hrs | CAO contract | max. €5,056 at 36 hrs)

NOS Digitale Media is innovative. We create leading sites and apps. Every day. For a large audience. We do this with an enthusiastic team of about 45 passionate professionals: backend and frontend engineers, iOS and Android engineers, UX designers, visual designers, product owners, and data specialists.

What binds us is our creativity and ingenuity. We are immensely proud to work for one of the largest independent news organizations in the Netherlands and to actively contribute to new developments in the media landscape.

The team members of our Backend team - Brian, Ferry, Nino, Quenten, Suard, and Tim - say:

Recently, we have been working hard on migrating our static content to a new, custom-built CDN. Naturally, we have also supported our frontend teams in this.

Additionally, we are working on improving our availability during DDoS attacks and the security of our applications. Using tools like Prometheus and Grafana, we try to detect problems before they affect our users.

We analyze the performance of various caches to ensure that our website visitors and app users are the first to be informed of the latest news.

In the coming year, we will be working on further modernizing the architecture of our platform. We want to improve the developer experience and shorten release cycles, so we can bring new features to the public even faster. We will, of course, also be helping to build those new features ourselves.

Why we love working here

Work that matters
We work for one of the largest independent news organizations in the Netherlands. That is something that gives us energy. Whether it is the NOS app, Teletekst, or the Jeugdjournaal app, your work is for and by everyone.

Investing in development
We offer plenty of room to learn and do new things. For example, you can follow a course or attend conferences or meetups that inspire you.

Our tech stack and tools

This is quite a list. If you do not meet all the points yet, but you do want to develop yourself in them, please let us know anyway! Please also mention this in your motivation.