Senior DevOps Engineer

Every day, ships, terminals, traders and surveyors coordinate complex vessel operations through paperwork, email and phone calls. UAB-Online brings these stakeholders together on one platform, making liquid and dry bulk operations safer, more efficient and more sustainable.

It’s working: more than 10,000 users across 100+ terminals have already handled over 1,000,000 vessel visits on UAB-Online. As we scale internationally, we’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to make the platform, and the teams behind it, more reliable, secure and efficient.

You’ll be our only dedicated cloud/DevOps engineer, with end-to-end responsibility for our Azure platform. You won’t do it alone: you’ll bring the engineering team along, share knowledge, and work closely with our external managed-service partner. As we expand AI-assisted and increasingly agentic development workflows, you’ll make sure the tooling, environments and delivery controls behind them are secure and reliable.

Our CI/CD runs in Azure DevOps for code hosted on GitHub, and our workloads run on Microsoft Azure, including Azure Kubernetes Service.

What you can expect

This role combines hands-on cloud engineering with ownership of how we build, ship and run our software. One day you’re improving a pipeline or automating an environment with Bicep. The next, you’re leading a root-cause analysis or preparing evidence for an ISO 27001 audit.

You’ll get real ownership of our Azure platform, a team that values reliability, and the freedom to introduce improvements that make a difference.

Your work will include:

• Designing, building and improving CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes in Azure DevOps

• Setting up and maintaining DTAP environments (Development, Testing, Acceptance, Production) for consistent, dependable releases

• Automating infrastructure provisioning and configuration with infrastructure-as-code (Bicep, PowerShell, Azure CLI)

• Running containerized workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

• Improving observability: monitoring, logging and alerting with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and Application Insights

• Supporting production incidents: you lead root-cause analysis and turn lessons learned into preventive improvements. This includes occasional availability outside office hours for critical issues

• Strengthening security and compliance (ISO 27001): you maintain DR and business-continuity runbooks, run restore tests and provide audit evidence

• Owning identity and access management in Entra ID and Azure RBAC, including guest access, security groups and periodic access reviews

• Improving developer experience, local environments and release workflows together with developers and QA

• Enabling AI-assisted and agentic development through secure tooling, automation and CI/CD integration, with the right quality gates and human oversight

• Optimizing architecture for reliability, scalability, performance and cost, including FinOps

• Coordinating our managed-service partner (Azure CSP/DevOps support) and the Microsoft partner program, including certificates and licensing

• Promoting DevOps principles and continuous improvement across the team

We’re looking for an experienced DevOps or cloud engineer who combines deep Azure knowledge with a pragmatic, ownership-driven mindset. You’re comfortable being the go-to person for our platform, and you enjoy helping the rest of the team grow along with you.

In general, we look for:

• Ownership: you take responsibility for outcomes, not just tasks

• Communication: you explain technical topics clearly to engineering and product colleagues

• Collaboration: you share knowledge and bring the team along

• Pragmatism and curiosity: you enjoy improving systems and keeping your knowledge current

• Problem-solving: a calm, structured approach under pressure

• Integrity and comfort working in an ISO 27001 environment

• Comfortable working in an ISO-certified environment, including ISO 27001 and ISO 9001, and following agreed processes for quality, security, and continuous improvement

• Full professional proficiency in English

For the Senior DevOps Engineer role, we additionally value:

• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, including Front Door, API Management, Azure SQL, Redis, Key Vault and NAT/IP whitelisting for partner integrations

• Experience with GitHub and Azure DevOps (Azure Pipelines) build and release processes, including self-hosted agents

• Scripting and automation skills in PowerShell and/or Azure CLI

• Infrastructure-as-code experience with Bicep

• Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes, ideally hands-on with AKS

• Production experience: monitoring and troubleshooting live systems, including incident management and root-cause analysis

• A solid understanding of cloud networking, security and data protection

• Responsible AI adoption: an interest in AI-assisted and agentic engineering workflows, with sound judgement on security, quality and human oversight

Experience with the following is considered a plus:

• Terraform

• Azure PaaS or serverless services

• Administering Microsoft Fabric / Power BI workspaces and data access

• Local tooling such as Docker Desktop, Minikube or Azurite

• Enabling AI-assisted tools or agent workflows in secure development, CI/CD or operational environments

• Maritime or regulated B2B environments

• Proficiency in Dutch

Working at UAB-Online

This vacancy gives you an impression of the role itself. If you would like to learn more about our team, culture, benefits, office, and hiring process, you can find more information on our careers page.

Please note that we do not offer relocation support; candidates must already live in the Netherlands.

**We work with one dedicated recruitment partner for our vacancies. Acquisition by other agencies in response to this vacancy is therefore not appreciated, and unsolicited profiles or proposals will not be considered.**