Senior DevOps Engineer

As a Senior DevOps Engineer you develop reusable DevOps solutions and integrations to support several projects. In this role, you support our customers with user-friendly, high-quality, and cost-efficient application software. In the semiconductor, analytical, and medical equipment industry, within the Brainport region and beyond. Your software expertise plays a vital role in bringing high-tech solutions to life, like operating equipment, image and data analysis, process management and providing insight into large data sets.

What excites you as a Senior DevOps Engineer?

From our office in Eindhoven and sometimes at our clients' premises you like to keep yourself busy with:

• Connecting Sioux Projects and Sioux IT by streamlining collaboration, ensuring clear communication, and proactively identifying needs and improvement opportunities.
• Guiding teams in adopting and applying DevOps best practices and encourages continuous improvement.
• Managing and optimizing DevOps services running in Docker containers on Fedora CoreOS, focusing on stability, security, and performance.
• Developing and improving documentation and standards for usage and integration within projects.
• Contributing to the Internal Developer Platform with tools such as Backstage, Crossplane, and ArgoCD.
• Designing and implementing standardized workflows and self-service solutions for developers.
• Coaching more junior colleagues.

Sounds good so far? We'd love to tell you more…

Your future workplace

This is what you bring to the table

• You have a bachelor's or master's degree in computer science.
• You have gained 5 – 10 years of experience in DevOps.
• You have strong experience with Linux-based platforms (preferably FCOS or container-optimized operating systems).
• You have experience with Docker and Shell scripting and tools such as Backstage, ArgoCD, and Crossplane.
• You have experience with CI/CD, GitOps, infrastructure-as-code, and Kubernetes.
• You are able to translate technical concepts into understandable guidelines for the teams.
• You have knowledge of or experience with various development methods and techniques such as Design Patterns, UML, Agile, and keep your professional knowledge up-to-date. You are looking for an environment where you can also apply these developments in practice.

This is what you can expect in return from Sioux

• Flexible 32-40 hour working week, with room to work from home.
• A healthy work-life balance is very important to us. We have 28 holidays with an option to buy an additional 12 holidays.
• You will work with passionate colleagues who share your drive for technology and business success.
• By combining our expertise in software, electronics, mechanics, mechatronics, mathematics and assembly, we make the impossible possible for our customers and get to work on challenging high-tech projects.
• You get a lot of freedom and responsibility; after all, you know exactly what you are doing.
• Personal coaching and a training budget of €6000 per year, so that you can continue to develop yourself.
• We also find it important to have fun together. We organize a lot for our employees, from family festivals and sparkling Christmas parties to inspiring knowledge sessions for the high-tech community.
• Our Sioux office is located in a prime location in the heart of the Brainport region. At our main office you can enjoy lunch, sports, making music, and sharing your knowledge with colleagues in one of our Tech Labs.

High-Tech, High-Fun, High-Value.

We can tell you all about the typical Sioux culture and the high-tech challenging projects. About how you can develop yourself, like nowhere else. But we’d rather have you hear it from our own employees.

Important note:

This position requires access to controlled technology, as defined in the US Export Administration Regulations (15 C.F.R. 730, et seq.). Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to access such controlled technology prior to beginning work. Business demands may require Sioux to proceed with candidates who are immediately eligible to access controlled technology.