Mid-Level Cloud DevOps Engineer

Job Features

Location Utrecht Contract Duration Temporary contract with a view to a permanent contract. Hours per week - 38 Monthly Salary €3,674.00 - €5,863.00 Salary Level Civil Servant Scale IBBAD 10 - Civil Servant Scale IBBAD 10 Level HBO Bachelor Field ICT Vacancy Number 80392 Employment Type Temporary contract with a view to a permanent contract Function Group Civil Servant

Job Description

Working at the Ministry of Defence but not as a military member?

If you choose a job at Defence, you choose socially relevant work. You truly contribute to a safe Netherlands.
In addition to approximately 53,000 professional soldiers and reservists, about 27,000 civilians also work at Defence. Do you want to contribute as a civilian in your own field to a professional defence organization and thus to peace and security at home and abroad?

As a Mid-Level Cloud DevOps Engineer with a focus on GitOps, you ensure that the Eagle service is delivered reliably, securely, and controlled from development to production.

Eagle provides various services in the areas of search, translation, speech, and AI. You can see it as an internal conversation-driven search engine (a kind of 'internal Google'). It helps employees make quick decisions based on linked internal data sources.

As a Mid-Level Cloud DevOps Engineer with a focus on GitOps, you will work on automating and improving the way applications and platform services are developed, deployed, and managed. You will help teams deliver software faster, more securely, and more consistently by utilizing modern DevOps and GitOps principles.

You will develop and manage automated deployment processes where Git functions as the central source for configuration, infrastructure, and application management. You will set up CI/CD and GitOps processes, improve existing workflows, and ensure that changes can be deployed to production in a controlled, repeatable, and secure manner.

Additionally, you will work on the technical foundation of the platform. You will automate infrastructure with Infrastructure-as-Code, manage the platform, connectors, and contribute to the standardization of development and management processes. For example, you will work with Kubernetes, Helm, and tools like ArgoCD or similar GitOps solutions.

You will help the team work more independently by providing good standards, templates, and automated solutions. When problems arise, you will analyze the cause and improve processes to further increase the reliability and quality of the service.

You will collaborate closely with other DevOps engineers, platform teams, architects, security specialists, and end-users. Together, you will build a secure and future-proof knowledge assistant where automation, collaboration, and continuous improvement are central.

You will work independently within defined frameworks, but you are never alone. You will share knowledge, contribute ideas for improvements, and ensure that solutions not only work today but remain manageable tomorrow.

Job Requirements

You are a practical DevOps Engineer who thrives on automating, improving, and reliably deploying software to production. You have experience with modern development and deployment processes and want to further specialize in cloud-native technology and secure software delivery.

This is what you bring:

• HBO work and thinking level: developed through education, work experience, or a combination thereof.
• GitOps & CI/CD automation: Experience with Git as the central source for configuration and deployment processes.
• Kubernetes & cloud-native technology: Experience with container platforms, deployments, and management of modern application environments.
• Infrastructure-as-Code & automation: Experience with Terraform, Helm, or comparable technologies.
• DevSecOps & reliability: Awareness of security, quality assurance, monitoring, and stable service delivery.
• A growth mindset: you actively seek feedback, provide it concretely and respectfully, and translate new insights into better code and collaboration.

Employment Conditions

Salary Level Civil Servant Scale IBBAD 10 - Civil Servant Scale IBBAD 10 Salary Description The mentioned salary is based on a full working week of 38 hours. Your placement will be based on your work experience and educational background. Monthly Salary €3,674.00 - €5,863.00 Employment Type Temporary contract with a view to a permanent contract​ Contract Duration Temporary contract with a view to a permanent contract. Maximum hours per week 38

Other Employment Conditions

• Defence places a strong emphasis on personal growth and offers excellent study facilities, ensuring you never stand still. You will be given ample opportunity to develop yourself and advance your career.
• At Defence, you accrue 16.33% of your gross salary each month in the Individual Choice Budget. You can use it to purchase additional vacation hours or for tax purposes.
• In addition to a pension scheme with ABP, you will receive a monthly reimbursement for commuting expenses, or you can opt for an unlimited travel pass throughout the Netherlands under favorable conditions.

Special Provisions

• This vacancy is open to both internal and external candidates. In case of suitability, internal candidates will be given preference.
• A security investigation is part of the selection procedure.
• A reference check and assessment may be part of the selection procedure.
• To be eligible for this position, you must be a national of a European Economic Area country. If not, you must possess a combined residence and work permit (GVVA).
• Acquisition is not appreciated. We kindly request that you do not send unsolicited offers, calls, or emails. Thank you for your understanding.

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More about the Function Group

Organization Name

Ministry of Defence

Organization Description

Defence is committed to the interests, welfare, and freedom of the Netherlands. We are active daily at home and abroad. Our global deployment strengthens international cooperation and ensures that people can develop freely. Now and in the future.

Approximately 79,000 people work directly and indirectly for peace and security at the Ministry of Defence. The ministry consists of the Materiel & IT Command (COMMIT), the Administrative Staff (the department), the Royal Netherlands Navy, the Royal Netherlands Army, the Royal Netherlands Air Force, the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee, and the Defence Materiel Organisation (DOSCO).

Defence is one of the largest employers in the Netherlands and shares similarities with a large corporation. The operational commands (sea, land, and air forces), the Marechaussee, DOSCO, and COMMIT resemble operating companies.

Organization URL

www.defensie.nl/organisatie/commit

Department Name

Materiel and IT Command

Department Description

You will work at COMMIT (Materiel & IT Command), part of the Ministry of Defence. COMMIT ensures that the armed forces have the best materiel and the most reliable IT solutions. Together with national and international partners, including NATO and the EU, COMMIT works daily on the digital combat power of Defence.

Within COMMIT, you will be part of the IT Governance & Other Support (BOO IT) department. This department provides IT solutions that support Defence's operational management and is responsible for the development, implementation, and maintenance of applications and systems.

You are part of a team of teams that collectively work on the Eagle service. This includes platform management, ranking optimization, product management, and further development. The Eagle team is responsible for services in the areas of Search, Chat, and Artificial Intelligence.

Vision
The Materiel & IT Command (COMMIT) supports the transition to an information-driven and technologically advanced armed forces with the best materiel and IT. Our COMMITment is strong to strengthen the crucial role as a strategic partner of the Commander of the Armed Forces, operational units, and international partners. COMMIT enhances the impact of support through an integrated and innovative approach to materiel and IT projects, (weapon) system management, and supply chain logistics.

We invest in the quality of our people and the flexibility and diversity of the workforce. The most important capabilities of COMMIT are the knowledge and experience of our personnel. To provide the armed forces with materiel and IT more quickly, we focus on process and social innovation in project management, procurement, and disposal of defence materiel, and personnel and logistical support, in addition to technological innovation.

Executing innovative projects requires more collaboration with the business sector, knowledge institutions, and other government and societal organizations. Under the banner of C-COMMIT as National Armaments Director (NAD), we also develop and strengthen international cooperation in the field of materiel and IT (NATO, EU, multinational, and bilateral).

Mission
COMMIT provides the armed forces with the best materiel and the best IT.

Extra
COMMIT is for everyone and by everyone; we are convinced that with a diverse and inclusive organization, we can best perform our task of connecting 'want' and 'can' when our personnel is a reflection of society. We therefore warmly invite you to apply for this position!

Department URL

www.defensie.nl/organisatie/COMMIT

Contact Persons

For more information about this vacancy:

Jelle Munster-Nelis, IT Manager
[email protected]

For more information about the application procedure:

Ivo Saft, Senior Recruiter
[email protected]

Location: Utrecht Level: HBO Bachelor38 hours per week €3,650 ~ €5,850 salary ICT Mid-Level Cloud DevOps Engineer This is what you will do

Working at the Ministry of Defence but not as a military member?

If you choose a job at Defence, you choose socially relevant work. You truly contribute to a safe Netherlands.
In addition to approximately 53,000 professional soldiers and reservists, about 27,000 civilians also work at Defence. Do you want to contribute as a civilian in your own field to a professional defence organization and thus to peace and security at home and abroad?

As a Mid-Level Cloud DevOps Engineer with a focus on GitOps, you ensure that the Eagle service is delivered reliably, securely, and controlled from development to production.

Eagle provides various services in the areas of search, translation, speech, and AI. You can see it as an internal conversation-driven search engine (a kind of 'internal Google'). It helps employees make quick decisions based on linked internal data sources.

As a Mid-Level Cloud DevOps Engineer with a focus on GitOps, you will work on automating and improving the way applications and platform services are developed, deployed, and managed. You will help teams deliver software faster, more securely, and more consistently by utilizing modern DevOps and GitOps principles.

You will develop and manage automated deployment processes where Git functions as the central source for configuration, infrastructure, and application management. You will set up CI/CD and GitOps processes, improve existing workflows, and ensure that changes can be deployed to production in a controlled, repeatable, and secure manner.

Additionally, you will work on the technical foundation of the platform. You will automate infrastructure with Infrastructure-as-Code, manage the platform, connectors, and contribute to the standardization of development and management processes. For example, you will work with Kubernetes, Helm, and tools like ArgoCD or similar GitOps solutions.

You will help the team work more independently by providing good standards, templates, and automated solutions. When problems arise, you will analyze the cause and improve processes to further increase the reliability and quality of the service.

You will collaborate closely with other DevOps engineers, platform teams, architects, security specialists, and end-users. Together, you will build a secure and future-proof knowledge assistant where automation, collaboration, and continuous improvement are central.

You will work independently within defined frameworks, but you are never alone. You will share knowledge, contribute ideas for improvements, and ensure that solutions not only work today but remain manageable tomorrow.

This is what you get Salary Level Civil Servant Scale IBBAD 10 - Civil Servant Scale IBBAD 10 Salary Description The mentioned salary is based on a full working week of 38 hours. Your placement will be based on your work experience and educational background. Monthly Salary €3,674.00 - €5,863.00 Employment Type Temporary contract with a view to a permanent contract​ Contract Duration Temporary contract with a view to a permanent contract. Maximum hours per week 38 This is what we offer more

• Defence places a strong emphasis on personal growth and offers excellent study facilities, ensuring you never stand still. You will be given ample opportunity to develop yourself and advance your career.
• At Defence, you accrue 16.33% of your gross salary each month in the Individual Choice Budget. You can use it to purchase additional vacation hours or for tax purposes.
• In addition to a pension scheme with ABP, you will receive a monthly reimbursement for commuting expenses, or you can opt for an unlimited travel pass throughout the Netherlands under favorable conditions.

This is what we ask

You are a practical DevOps Engineer who thrives on automating, improving, and reliably deploying software to production. You have experience with modern development and deployment processes and want to further specialize in cloud-native technology and secure software delivery.

This is what you bring:

• HBO work and thinking level: developed through education, work experience, or a combination thereof.
• GitOps & CI/CD automation: Experience with Git as the central source for configuration and deployment processes.
• Kubernetes & cloud-native technology: Experience with container platforms, deployments, and management of modern application environments.
• Infrastructure-as-Code & automation: Experience with Terraform, Helm, or comparable technologies.
• DevSecOps & reliability: Awareness of security, quality assurance, monitoring, and stable service delivery.
• A growth mindset: you actively seek feedback, provide it concretely and respectfully, and translate new insights into better code and collaboration.

This is where you will work

You will work at COMMIT (Materiel & IT Command), part of the Ministry of Defence. COMMIT ensures that the armed forces have the best materiel and the most reliable IT solutions. Together with national and international partners, including NATO and the EU, COMMIT works daily on the digital combat power of Defence.

Within COMMIT, you will be part of the IT Governance & Other Support (BOO IT) department. This department provides IT solutions that support Defence's operational management and is responsible for the development, implementation, and maintenance of applications and systems.

You are part of a team of teams that collectively work on the Eagle service. This includes platform management, ranking optimization, product management, and further development. The Eagle team is responsible for services in the areas of Search, Chat, and Artificial Intelligence.

Vision
The Materiel & IT Command (COMMIT) supports the transition to an information-driven and technologically advanced armed forces with the best materiel and IT. Our COMMITment is strong to strengthen the crucial role as a strategic partner of the Commander of the Armed Forces, operational units, and international partners. COMMIT enhances the impact of support through an integrated and innovative approach to materiel and IT projects, (weapon) system management, and supply chain logistics.

We invest in the quality of our people and the flexibility and diversity of the workforce. The most important capabilities of COMMIT are the knowledge and experience of our personnel. To provide the armed forces with materiel and IT more quickly, we focus on process and social innovation in project management, procurement, and disposal of defence materiel, and personnel and logistical support, in addition to technological innovation.

Executing innovative projects requires more collaboration with the business sector, knowledge institutions, and other government and societal organizations. Under the banner of C-COMMIT as National Armaments Director (NAD), we also develop and strengthen international cooperation in the field of materiel and IT (NATO, EU, multinational, and bilateral).

Mission
COMMIT provides the armed forces with the best materiel and the best IT.

Extra
COMMIT is for everyone and by everyone; we are convinced that with a diverse and inclusive organization, we can best perform our task of connecting 'want' and 'can' when our personnel is a reflection of society. We therefore warmly invite you to apply for this position!

Defence is committed to the interests, welfare, and freedom of the Netherlands. We are active daily at home and abroad. Our global deployment strengthens international cooperation and ensures that people can develop freely. Now and in the future.

Approximately 79,000 people work directly and indirectly for peace and security at the Ministry of Defence. The ministry consists of the Materiel & IT Command (COMMIT), the Administrative Staff (the department), the Royal Netherlands Navy, the Royal Netherlands Army, the Royal Netherlands Air Force, the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee, and the Defence Materiel Organisation (DOSCO).

Defence is one of the largest employers in the Netherlands and shares similarities with a large corporation. The operational commands (sea, land, and air forces), the Marechaussee, DOSCO, and COMMIT resemble operating companies.

Special Provisions

• This vacancy is open to both internal and external candidates. In case of suitability, internal candidates will be given preference.
• A security investigation is part of the selection procedure.
• A reference check and assessment may be part of the selection procedure.
• To be eligible for this position, you must be a national of a European Economic Area country. If not, you must possess a combined residence and work permit (GVVA).
• Acquisition is not appreciated. We kindly request that you do not send unsolicited offers, calls, or emails. Thank you for your understanding.

#LI-Hybrid

Feel free to ask your question

For more information about this vacancy:

Jelle Munster-Nelis, IT Manager
[email protected]

For more information about the application procedure:

Ivo Saft, Senior Recruiter
[email protected]