vacatures bij Science and Technology in Utrecht

Utrecht

Full time (40 hours per week)

Senior

About this job

We are currently looking for a to join the team in Utrecht .

You will help maintain and enhance the infrastructure that supports nationwide subsurface information-data used to answer key societal questions, such as groundwater levels, soil stability, and the suitability of locations for renewable energy storage. As a , you ensure that the systems and applications supporting this work remain stable, secure, and future-proof.

Working from home and on-site in Utrecht, you focus on keeping the internal infrastructure and supporting applications reliable and continuously improving. You operate at the intersection of development teams and the platform team, providing the foundation on which digital products and services are delivered. You translate requests into actionable plans and implement them independently, with strong attention to security, availability, standardization, and life cycle management.

You'll join a multidisciplinary platform team of about ten colleagues-specialists in areas such as databases, security, and architecture-where knowledge sharing and teamwork are central.

Main responsibilities

• Maintain, monitor, and improve the internal infrastructure and supporting applications.
• Serve as the link between development teams and the platform team, ensuring a strong and secure foundational environment.
• Translate technical requests into concrete proposals and implement them independently.
• Develop, standardize, and continuously refine CI/CD pipelines used for deploying products and services.
• Support development teams in using these processes and ensure clear, up-to-date documentation.
• Analyze and resolve incidents and service requests based on urgency, documenting solutions clearly.
• Perform system and application administration tasks, including life cycle management, to safeguard performance and availability.
• Participate in projects such as setting up machine-learning infrastructure in Azure or on-premises environments.
• Assist DevOps and Scrum teams when they encounter infrastructure-related obstacles.
• Collaborate closely with the platform team to manage maintenance, monitoring, security, and long-term improvements to the environment.

Requirements

• Minimum of a higher professional education level (HBO) or equivalent working/thinking level.

• Extensive experience with OpenShift, ArgoCD, and GitHub Actions.

• Strong knowledge of (Red Hat) Linux, scripting, Ansible, Keycloak, and Azure.

• Experience working with tools such as Harbor, Grafana, Prometheus, and the HashiCorp stack.

• Familiarity with DevOps methodologies and frameworks (Kanban, Scrum, CI/CD, GitOps).

• Strong communication skills and the ability to stay organized and prioritize effectively.

• A problem-solving mindset and eagerness to continuously develop your skills.

• Team-oriented attitude with a sense of shared responsibility for collective outcomes.

• Proficiency in English, both spoken and written; Dutch is preferred. If you do not speak Dutch yet, language training can be provided.

Please note that if you do not hear back from us within 10 days of your application, you may assume that we have selected another candidate we would like to interview for this position. We do our best to get back to you individually; however, due to a high volume of responses, it can be that we have not been able to reject your application in person.

We kindly request that recruitment agencies do not contact us regarding this vacancy. We are not seeking assistance and will not be liable for any fees or charges associated with unsolicited CVs or candidate introductions. Any candidates submitted by agencies without prior written agreement will be considered our direct applicants and may be employed without obligation or fee.

Are you enthusiastic about becoming our new ?

Apply via our application form, or send your CV and motivational letter directly to .

Our story

At S[&]T we contribute to a safer life on earth by translating space data into valuable and actionable insights. We oversee data from instruments to application, and apply our expertise within our software frameworks, information products and consultancy.

Our society relies on space and scientific instruments for climate change monitoring, navigation, defence and national security, and other crucial services we all use in our daily lives. These instruments produce an enormous quantity of complex data, and our goal is to unlock its value.

We have more than 20 years of experience working on instrument calibration, the creation of data quality monitoring tools, the development of real-time data processing frameworks, and the development of application-specific algorithms. With this, we help organisations, governments and industries to strengthen their information position and thereby improve their decision making. We focus on the following domains: Space & Science, Defence & Security, Environment & Sustainability, and High-Tech Consulting.

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