AWS DevOps Engineer (fulltime employee)

About Verbolia

Founded in 2018, Verbolia is disrupting the way to approach search marketing with a super innovative SaaS technology. We are growing very rapidly internationally and we were elected as Belgian Startup of the Year 2021. We won several awards like the IAB MIXX Award for the “Best MarkAd-Tech Tools” and the Digital Wallonia Startup of the year award.

It is truly important to us that each team member is happy in the team, with interesting challenges, a good understanding of his/her contribution to the company, a nice environment, a super flexible home working policy,...

When recruiting a new team member, we’ll always focus primarily on:

• Company culture fit: be trustworthy, friendly, willing to help
• Adaptability: be ready to evolve along with the company
• Solution-oriented: never come with a problem, always come with a solution to a problem

About the job

This role is essential for accelerating our development cycles, improving system reliability, and optimizing our infrastructure costs on AWS.

• Design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and resilient cloud infrastructures on AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, ECS/EKS, etc.).
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as AWS CloudFormation.
• Ensure proactive monitoring of systems and applications and set up alerts to guarantee high availability and performance.
• Optimize AWS costs by identifying opportunities for resource efficiency improvement and implementing cost management strategies.
• Collaborate closely with development teams to integrate DevOps best practices from the early stages of the software development lifecycle.
• Implement and maintain robust security measures on AWS (IAM, Security Groups, WAF, KMS, etc.) and ensure compliance with security standards.
• Manage databases on AWS (RDS, OpenSearch) and optimize their performance and reliability.
• Participate in resolving production incidents and continuously improving DevOps processes and tools.
• Document architectures, processes, and operational procedures.
• Contribute technical expertise to client questionnaires and IT assessments related to infrastructure, security, and operations.

• Strong professional experience as a DevOps Engineer or in a similar role.
• Solid and practical expertise in AWS services.
• Significant experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as CloudFormation.
• Scripting skills and proficiency in TypeScript.
• Knowledge of containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS).
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team, with excellent communication skills.
• Experience with Grafana and/or advanced monitoring tools is a valuable asset.
• Fluent in English
• IMPORTANT: this position requires being present in the office every week on Tuesdays and Thursdays

Benefits

• Be part of an international start-up environment that is just at the beginning of a bright future
• A high degree of independence, responsibility, and impact on business operations
• A competitive salary with plenty of fringe benefits, a company car, a mobile subscription, 5 extra holidays, meal vouchers, a group and hospitalisation insurance
• A hybrid working model, a good mix of home and office working