DevOps / SRE (Site Reliability Engineer)
Location: Netherlands / Hybrid / Remote
Job Type: Internship, Freelance, Parttime, Fulltime
Industry: Hospitality / Property Management / PropTech
Responsibilities: In consultation
What You’re Going to Do:
You’ll design, operate, and continuously improve the infrastructure that powers our platform.
- Build and maintain scalable, reliable cloud infrastructure
- Automate deployments, monitoring, and incident response
- Ensure high availability, performance, and security
- Collaborate with engineering to design resilient systems
- Proactively identify risks and improve system reliability
- Enable fast, safe product iteration through strong DevOps practices
Your Key Responsibilities
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines
- Manage cloud infrastructure (IaC, scaling, failover)
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting systems
- Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and postmortems
- Improve system performance, reliability, and cost efficiency
- Partner with engineering on architecture and deployment strategies
- Champion security, observability, and operational excellence
Bonus If You Have Experience With
- Hospitality management systems and property management platforms
- AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helm
- Monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation)
- High-traffic SaaS or marketplace platforms
- On-call rotations and incident management
- Security best practices and compliance
What We Ask
- Experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and cloud architecture
- Automation-first mindset
- Comfort working in fast-moving startup environments
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- Ownership mentality—you treat reliability as a product
- Self-motivated, independent, and great at remote communication
- Fluent in English (written and spoken)
Extra Information:
- Compensation: In consultation + equity/revenue share options
- Tools & Stack: AWS, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js, GitHub, Discord, Notion
- Work Style: Remote-first, async-friendly, outcome-driven
- Growth Path: Opportunity to become Lead or Head of DevOps/SRE as we scale
Future Career Path
1. Intern / Junior DevOps – SRE
Foundation stage: learning infrastructure, reliability fundamentals, and professional habits
Technical Skills
- Linux fundamentals and networking basics (DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP)
- Scripting basics (Bash, Python)
- Version control with Git
- Understanding systems, containers, and application lifecycles
AWS
- Introductory knowledge of AWS core services (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC)
- Basic understanding of cloud networking and security
- Exposure to Infrastructure as Code concepts
DevOps / SRE Skills
- CI/CD pipeline basics and deployment workflows
- Monitoring, logging, and alerting fundamentals
- Understanding uptime, availability, and incident response basics
- Supporting deployments and reliability improvements
Mindset / Soft Skills
- Strong learning mindset and curiosity
- Attention to detail and documentation discipline
- Clear communication and collaboration
- Ownership mentality and reliability-first thinking
2. Mid-Level DevOps – SRE / Associate DevOps – SRE
Ownership stage: operating systems, improving reliability, and scaling practices
Technical Skills
- Strong Linux and networking expertise
- Automation and scripting proficiency
- Understanding distributed systems and failure modes
AWS
- Hands-on experience with AWS services (EKS/ECS, RDS, ALB, Route53)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi)
- Managing environments, secrets, and access controls
DevOps / SRE Skills
- Designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Implementing SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets
- Incident response ownership, root-cause analysis, postmortems
- Observability stacks (metrics, logs, tracing)
- Performance optimization and capacity planning
Professional Skills
- Mentoring junior engineers
- Leading reliability initiatives or automation projects
- Writing runbooks, documentation, and standards
- Collaborating closely with engineering and product teams
3. Senior DevOps – SRE / Associate DevOps – SRE Lead / Chief DevOps – SRE
Leadership stage: defining reliability strategy and organizational impact
Technical Skills
- Expert-level system design for scalability, reliability, and security
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native architectures
AWS
- Ownership of cloud platform strategy and tooling
- Advanced infrastructure governance and cost optimization
- Designing organization-wide deployment and reliability standards
DevOps / SRE Skills
- Defining long-term reliability and availability strategy
- Organization-wide SLO frameworks and incident management processes
- Driving automation-first culture and platform resilience
Leadership & Impact
- Leading DevOps / SRE teams and mentoring engineers
- Influencing executive decisions on platform strategy
- Ensuring reliability enables product velocity and business growth
- Embedding reliability as a core company value