DevOps Engineer

• Role: DevOps Engineer

• Scope: You configure and maintain our cloud infrastructure, Continuous Deployment / Continuous Integration pipeline in close collaboration with our different stakeholders and departments

• Level: Medior

• Location: Ghent, Belgium; Amsterdam, the Netherlands; or fully remote within the EU

Who are we and why should you care?

Teamleader is a SaaS scale-up born in 2012 in Ghent, Belgium, and part of the Visma Group since 2022. Our mission? To make work easier, not harder, for small and medium-sized businesses.
Here’s what we bring to the table:

• Teamleader Focus: the all-in-one tool that helps small businesses optimise CRM, projects, and invoicing.

• Teamleader One: the go-to e-invoicing software that self-employed pros can count on.

We’ve also been growing smarter through strategic acquisitions:

• Teamleader Orbit (2019): helping medium-sized agencies thrive and scale.

• Vectera (2022): powering seamless customer meetings.

• Dexxter (2024): making financial admin a breeze for freelancers.

Curious to learn more about us, our products, and why you’ll love working at Teamleader? Check us out here.

We Are Looking for a DevOps Engineer to Join us

As a DevOps Engineer at Teamleader:

• You utilize your extensive experience within the DevOps domain to enhance efficiency, performance, and security of our AWS-hosted cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes services. 

• You are able to optimize build/test/deployment workflows with attention to developer efficiency, performance, and quality.

• Once you have familiarized yourself with our infrastructure, you keep an eye on overall infrastructure cost and propose improvements to reduce costs.

• Our development teams can rely on you to provide analysis and assist them with advanced troubleshooting.

• Besides that, you will closely collaborate with development, QA, and customer support teams on a daily basis to ensure technical alignment and improve our cloud platforms and customer experience.

• Together with your co-workers, you participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation and maintain updated documentation.

Why others chose Teamleader: we're lively, not corporate

We have the energy and boldness of a start-up and the expertise and pragmatism of a scale-up. The result: a team of both young and seasoned professionals led by supportive and approachable managers who give recognition and rewards for hard work. You’ll be working in a fast-paced tech environment with open feedback culture and room for initiatives as well as ideas. You’ll have plenty of room to apply your personality, express yourself, and impact our course of action with your insights or ideas.

On top of that, you’ll get:

• An extensive training budget.

• A hybrid working model: a pleasant mix of office and home working.

• A personal tooling budget, to make working from home as comfortable as from our offices.

• Daily budget-friendly in-house prepared lunch and dinner options (only in our Ghent office), as well as Friyays and numerous sport initiatives!

• Our long-lasting dedication to employee well-being, just take a look at our career page and Instagram to see how we keep the Team(leader) spirit going.

We value diversity

Our ambition is to build and sell a product that helps everyone everywhere (starting with Europe) to work smarter, so we want our team to reflect that. We believe that a diverse, inclusive working environment is crucial to realise that ambition, so we’re committed to continue to build and cherish a culture where every colleague feels welcome, appreciated and heard.

You’d be a great fit for this role if you:

• Have at least 5 years of experience in DevOps practices with a development background in a SaaS context.

• Have a set of technical competences that matches with what we are looking for in a candidate. Specifically, we are looking for people with these hard skills:

  • Cloud Services on Amazon Web Services ( AWS )

    • IAM & Access Policies

    • Cost Monitoring & Control

    • Scaling

    • Web Application Firewall

  • Observability 

    • Log Management & Infrastructure

    • Monitoring, Trending, Alerting & Metrics

    • Distributed Tracing

  • DevOps Tools and Networking

    • Kubernetes

    • Networking ( Ingress, Routing, Headers )

    • Continuous Integration / Deployment

    • CI/CD: ArgoCD, Docker, Kustomize, GitHub

    • Terraform, FluxCD, Ansible, GitHub Actions, GitOps

  • Security

    • Infrastructure ( Systems, Perimeter, Kubernetes, Docker )

    • Code ( SCA, SAST )

    • Vulnerability Management

  • Programming tools

    • Bash, python, Yaml, TypeScript, PHP

  • Databases

    • MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Memcached

• Are an advanced troubleshooter. You understand exactly how to create a detailed Root Cause Analysis after/during an incident and implement a future-proof fix.

• Can make strategic decisions to make things great and have an active role in the overall infrastructure & devops design & implementation.

• Understand what business strategy means and know how to implement that using technical solutions. 

• Help improve customer experience by introducing pro-active change (both technical and non-technical).

• Can be relied on by the larger engineering team ( Operations, Quality Assurance, Development , 2nd line support ) and our support departments for properly written documentation & guidelines and you know how to share knowledge to the teams!

• Have good communication skills and consider yourself to be a team player.

• Are not afraid to speak your mind strongly and convincingly to get your point across.

• Are able to express yourself fluently in English, both spoken and written.

Interested? Questions? Get in touch!