DevOps Engineer
Behind every meaningful connection is infrastructure that never blinks.
As our DevOps Engineer, you’ll build the systems that let teams ship fast, scale confidently, and stay secure - powering a global dating platform where reliability, performance, and trust aren’t optional, they’re essential.
Goal of the Role
The #1 goal of the role is to enable rapid, reliable product delivery by building and maintaining robust infrastructure and deployment systems that empower engineering teams to ship with confidence. You'll drive operational excellence through automation, monitoring, and continuous improvement while keeping costs optimized and systems secure.
Tech stack: AWS (EC2, ECS/Fargate, RDS Aurora, ElastiCache, S3, CloudFront, Lambda, SNS/SQS), Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes/ECS, GitHub Actions, Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, Kibana, OpenSearch, RabbitMQ, MySQL (Aurora), Redis
Result Areas
1. Deliver rock-solid infrastructure that scales with growth
Build and maintain infrastructure that supports product evolution without becoming a bottleneck, ensuring 99.9%+ uptime while optimizing AWS costs. Implement infrastructure-as-code practices that make provisioning predictable and repeatable, proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks before they impact users, and drive cost optimization initiatives that maintain or improve performance.
2. Accelerate development velocity through automation
Eliminate manual toil and reduce deployment friction so engineering teams can ship features faster and more safely. Build CI/CD pipelines that enable multiple daily deployments with automated testing and rollback capabilities, automate infrastructure provisioning, monitoring alerts, and operational tasks to free up engineering time, and reduce mean time to deploy from commit to production.
3. Ensure system reliability and rapid incident response
Own the observability stack and incident response processes that keep our dating platform running smoothly for users worldwide. Implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting that catches issues before users report them, drive down mean time to recovery (MTTR) through improved tooling and runbooks, and lead postmortems that turn incidents into learning opportunities and preventive improvements.
4. Support microservices migration with minimal disruption
Enable the engineering team's transition from monolith to microservices through infrastructure patterns and tooling that reduce migration risks. Design and implement container orchestration and service mesh capabilities that support independent service deployments, build observability and testing frameworks that give teams confidence when extracting services, and create self-service tooling that lets teams own their services without constant DevOps intervention.
5. Strengthen security posture and compliance
Embed security into infrastructure and deployment processes, ensuring user data protection while maintaining development agility. Implement automated security scanning in CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure changes, maintain and improve security controls for AWS environment and deployment processes, and support compliance requirements (GDPR, security audits) through documented, auditable infrastructure.
Experience
5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering
Strong expertise in AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, CloudFront, Lambda, VPC, IAM)
Proficient with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS, or EKS)
Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and automation (GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins, or similar)
Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, or similar)
Proficient in scripting and automation (Python, Bash, or similar)
Solid understanding of networking, security best practices, and cloud architecture patterns
Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or similar)
Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix system administration
Experience with database administration and optimization (MySQL, PostgreSQL, or similar)
Understanding of security scanning tools and practices
Experience working in agile or scrum teams
Proven track record of cost optimization in cloud environments
You
Driven by high-quality work and operational excellence
Passion for continuous learning and adapting to new technologies
Understanding of software development methodologies and best practices
Pro-active and independent problem solver
Authentic team player who enables others to succeed
Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
Ability to balance reliability, speed, and cost effectiveness
Experience with incident management and post-incident reviews
Good knowledge of continuous deployment and continuous integration principles
What we offer
A fulltime job that makes a positive impact on people's lives
A competitive salary matched with your experience and ambition
An amazing work environment in our office at Prins Hendrikkade, at the heart of Amsterdam
A Macbook or other hardware of your choice to be able to do your job
Stay healthy and bring your own device allowance
Training and development budget
Frequent team get-togethers and team activities
Free Inner Circle VIP membership for you and your single friends
About Inner Circle
Inner Circle is less like a dating app, more like a member's club made for dating. Niche by design, it's for people who live ambitious, interesting lifestyles – and want to date people who move in similar circles. Built on the belief that opposites don't attract, a thorough application and screening process curates a community where everyone is worth dating – and people have more in common than just being single.
The independent bootstrapped tech company ranked in the FT1000 2020 list as one of the fastest-growing companies in Europe. The company was also the winner of Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 in The Netherlands in 2018.
At Inner Circle, we embrace our diverse community and team. We celebrate differences and know that they are key for helping us grow. Our team consists of 40 team members, with 16 nationalities and a female: male ratio of 60 : 40. Whatever your race, religion, colour, gender, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability or age, we make sure everyone has the space to be themselves.
Ready to make an impact? Let's get the ball rolling, by applying now!