DevOps Engineer Backup & Recovery (Dutch speaking)
Koninklijke KPN N.V.7 hours ago
Maastricht, NetherlandsSenior
Responsibilities
- Manage, develop, and modernize data-protection, backup, and recovery platforms across private and public cloud environments.
- Implement and optimize backup, recovery, cyber-resilience, immutable-storage, and cleanroom-recovery solutions.
- Monitor and improve service availability, performance, continuity, processes, platforms, and customer experience.
- Automate management processes and contribute to implementations using scripting, infrastructure automation, and APIs.
- Translate customer needs into durable solutions and advise customers on data protection, cyber recovery, compliance, and business continuity.
- Collaborate with customers, suppliers, KPN departments, architecture teams, and product teams on innovation and new functionality.
- Participate in the full service lifecycle from design and implementation through operational management and continuous improvement.
- Share knowledge within the team and contribute to new propositions, tenders, and complex customer challenges.
Requirements
- Experienced platform engineer with fluent Dutch, residence in the Netherlands, and strong English communication skills.
- HBO- or WO-level working and thinking capability, preferably in IT, computer science, or a comparable field.
- Demonstrable experience with complex backup and recovery solutions; Commvault experience is preferred.
- Knowledge of storage platforms, object storage, and cloud-based storage services; Cloudian and Scality experience is desirable.
- Experience with Linux and/or Windows platforms.
- Knowledge of VMware, Kubernetes, OpenStack, and public cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud.
- Experience with automation and scripting, such as Python and/or PowerShell.
- Understanding of security, compliance, and cyber-resilience concepts.
- Experience at a service provider or systems integrator is strongly preferred.
- Willingness to undergo additional ABRO or ABDO screening.
- Analytical, customer-oriented, technically curious, collaborative, and comfortable working across design, implementation, and operations.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work arrangement with two office days and three home-working days.
- Home-working equipment support, including a mobile phone and laptop.
- Flexible leave arrangements, including transition leave and the option to exchange public holidays.
- Annual personal development budget usable for training, coaching, and courses.
- Fixed 13th-month payment or the option to allocate it toward a FLEX & BOOST goal.
- Discount on KPN products and services.
- Travel reimbursement and bicycle-related benefits, including a possible lease bicycle contribution.
- Pension plan and opportunities to work within KPN’s Private Cloud data team.
About Koninklijke KPN N.V.
Koninklijke KPN N.V. is the incumbent Dutch telecommunications provider, selling mobile, fixed internet and TV, and managed ICT and cloud services to consumers, SMEs, and enterprises. It operates nationwide fiber and 4G/5G networks and provides data, voice, and security solutions, plus wholesale access to other providers. KPN is a public company headquartered in Rotterdam and listed on Euronext Amsterdam (ticker KPN).