DevOps Engineer Infrastructure

Help keep education and research continuously connected. As a DevOps Engineer Network Infrastructure, you automate critical network services, strengthen digital security, and help build a campus where reliability and innovation go hand in hand.

At Delft University of Technology, we work on tomorrow's technologies: from quantum internet and robotics to groundbreaking scientific research. This requires a network infrastructure that is secure, scalable and always available. The Shared Service Center ICT forms the university's digital backbone and supports thousands of students, researchers and staff every day.

As a DevOps Engineer Network Infrastructure, you work in a multidisciplinary team responsible for a stable and future-proof campus network environment. You design, manage and automate network services, ensuring that manual administration is increasingly replaced by Infrastructure as Code and GitOps principles.

You develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployments and automate processes related to network management, firewalling, segmentation, monitoring and capacity management. In doing so, you work on solutions that directly contribute to the continuity, security and performance of the digital infrastructure.

You collaborate closely with colleagues from cloud, security and compute teams, and actively contribute to architectural decisions and technological innovation. Within the ICT department, you are given the space to help shape technical direction, take ownership and implement structural improvements.

Do you have experience in Virtualization?, Do you have a Doctoral degree?, * You have demonstrable experience with Infrastructure as Code, for example using Terraform, Ansible, Git or NetBox.

• You have experience with automation and scripting, for example in Python or Bash.
• You have proven knowledge of networking and network management in complex infrastructures.
• You have experience with CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployments.
• You have experience with monitoring tools, such as Nagios or similar solutions.
• You have knowledge of network segmentation, firewalling and security best practices.
• You work in a structured way, take ownership, and can clearly explain technical decisions.
• Certifications such as CCNP or CCIE are considered a plus

• Duration of contract is 1 jaar. Temporary with prospect of permanent
• A job of 36-40 hours per week.
• A salary based on Scale 11 of the CAO for Dutch Universities with a salary between €4728 - €6433 gross per month based on a fulltime contract (38 hours), plus 8% holiday allowance and an end-of-year bonus of 8.3%.
• An excellent pension scheme via the ABP.
• The possibility to compile an individual employment package every year.
• Discount with health insurers on supplemental packages.
• Flexible working week.
• Every year, 232 leave hours (at 38 hours). You can also sell or buy additional leave hours via the individual choice budget.
• Plenty of opportunities for education, training and courses.
• Partially paid parental leave
• Attention for working healthy and energetically with the vitality program.

Delft University of Technology is built on strong foundations. As creators of the world-famous Dutch waterworks and pioneers in biotech, TU Delft is a top international university combining science, engineering and design. It delivers world class results in education, research and innovation to address challenges in the areas of energy, climate, mobility, health and digital society. For generations, our engineers have proven to be entrepreneurial problem-solvers, both in business and in a social context. At TU Delft we embrace diversity as one of our core values and we actively engage to be a university where you feel at home and can flourish. We value different perspectives and qualities. We believe this makes our work more innovative, the TU Delft community more vibrant and the world more just. Together, we imagine, invent and create solutions using technology to have a positive impact on a global scale. That is why we invite you to apply. Your application will receive fair consideration. Challenge. Change. Impact! University Corporate Office - ICT At the ICT Directorate, we work with approximately 200 colleagues divided into several teams: Shared Service Centre, Project Management Services, Information Management, Security, Privacy & Architecture and Innovation. We, as the ICT Directorate, work on a variety of projects, together with the faculties and other directorates of Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). The complexity and size of the organisation often cause our work to be challenging yet rewarding. The biggest task we face in the coming years as TU Delft is to accelerate digitalisation to strengthen our position as a world-class university. We often work together with the specialists in our own ICT department and with our colleagues spread across the university. The campus is a vibrant environment that buzzes with activity. The culture is informal and inclusive. There is room for a casual chat at the coffee machine and, if you like, you can participate in various activities organised on campus. Moreover, within the ICT directorate, you will be given the trust and freedom to manage your own work. There are many possibilities in terms of training and we consider your personal development to be very important. Would you like to know more about what it's like to work at ICT and see what other vacancies we have? Have a look at our work-in-ict page.