Infrastructure Monitoring DevOps Engineer

Dev Ops Engineer Infrastructure

Salary:
€4,925
- 6,682 monthly Company: Tu Delft Type: Full Time

Location:
Italy Are you a Dev Ops Engineer with a passion for infrastructure platforms? Do you want to work in a high-tech environment where research, innovation and education come together? TU Delft operates its own data centres and its own campus network. You make sure that this infrastructure is not managed manually, but controlled through code. You will work on one of the largest and most distinctive IT environments in the Netherlands. More than 40,000 researchers, students and staff rely on it every day. Behind this environment is not a standard catalogue of services, but a campus network that simultaneously supports lecture halls, laboratories, quantum research and high‐performance computing — all from data centres that we own and operate ourselves. We are transforming this environment from manual operations to code. Not as a project with an end date, but as a way of working. Infrastructure as Code (Ia C) is the standard, not the ambition. Everything goes through Git, everything is peer‐reviewed, and what we build moves into production quickly so that we can learn from real feedback rather than assumptions. You automate the deployment, configuration and registration of our data centre, network and platform services using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Net Box, Git Lab CI and Python. You help build the internal platform that enables other teams within the ICT Directorate to securely consume standardised infrastructure services themselves, rather than submitting a ticket and waiting. Establishing a reliable source of truth Net Box is becoming our technical Configuration Management Database (CMDB). Network and infrastructure configurations should originate from it, rather than the other way around. That may sound less exciting than some of the other challenges, but it is the foundation for everything we automate next. Connecting to our shared automation landscape We are building an event‐driven orchestration layer in which a request from a self‐service portal automatically results in a deployed, registered and monitored service. Compartmentalised research environments For sensitive research, we build isolated environments driven by knowledge security requirements and the forthcoming Dutch Knowledge Security Screening Act (Wet screening kennisveiligheid ). Segmentation, access control and demonstrable compliance are not secondary considerations here; they are part of the product itself. Rethinking the virtualisation layer We are exploring Proxmox as an alternative to our current VMware stack. What this means for networking, storage and physical infrastructure remains an open technical question — one that you will help us explore, design and build. Moving from monitoring to measurable reliability Knowing that something is broken is not the same as knowing how reliable it is. You will have the freedom to make choices, initiate improvements and introduce new tooling — and we expect you to be able to explain and defend those choices to colleagues and stakeholders who may see things differently. How we work We work in multidisciplinary teams using an agile way of working. We use AI agents to work faster and more accurately, and we expect you to be curious about their potential. The working language within the team is Dutch or English. We are looking for an automation engineer. Networking knowledge is an advantage, not a requirement. You have automated production infrastructure using code, for example with Ansible, Terraform or Pulumi — and you can tell us what went wrong along the way and what you learned from it. You programme in Python or a comparable language at a level where you can build your own tooling rather than simply copy scripts. You are comfortable working with Linux. Git and CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery) are part of the way you work, rather than tools you use on the side. You incorporate security into your designs from the outset, rather than treating it as a final check. You enjoy collaborating with other teams and can explain a technical decision to someone who is not an engineer. The following would be an advantage — but these are also things you can learn here: Networking: routing, switching, firewalls, segmentation and Software Defined Networking (SDN). Net Box or another source‐of‐truth platform. Virtualisation: Proxmox, VMware and Open Shift. Event-driven architecture, workflow orchestration and container platforms. Working in an environment with formal security and compliance requirements, such as those arising from the Dutch Cybersecurity Act (Cyberbeveiligingswet ). We have experienced network and infrastructure specialists who can teach you the networking side. What we are looking for is someone who can help them take automation to the next level. We would rather hire someone who is very good at three things and eager to learn the rest than someo