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You'll be part of our DevOps team, but your impact will reach across our platform and engineering squads.\nYou'll investigate recurring incidents, alerts and vulnerabilities, make problems visible through strong observability and turn reactive firefighting into proactive prevention.\nYou'll also develop a strong understanding of our product and use that knowledge to build tools that help our Support and Engineering teams diagnose and resolve issues faster.\nWhat you'll do\nDesign and improve monitoring, logging and alerting across our platform.\nBuild and maintain Grafana dashboards, alert rules and SLO tracking.\nInvestigate recurring incidents and systemic issues, trace their root causes and drive them to resolution.\nCreate and maintain runbooks to make operational knowledge accessible across the team.\nTriage security findings and vulnerabilities using tools such as Sentry, Aikido, AWS GuardDuty and AWS Inspector.\nAssess impact and urgency and translate findings into clear, prioritized recommendations.\nImplement and maintain secrets management, access controls and least-privilege practices across environments.\nBuild internal tools, scripts and diagnostics that help Support resolve common issues independently.\nIdentify patterns in support requests that point to underlying product or infrastructure issues.\nWork closely with engineering squads and DevOps on infrastructure, security and reliability improvements.\nTurn incidents and learnings into structural improvements that make our platform more resilient.\nWhat we're looking for\nMust-have\nYou live and work in Belgium.\nBachelor's or Master's degree, or equivalent experience.\nProfessional proficiency in English. Dutch is a bonus.\nStrong Python skills, is a bonus.\nExperience with observability tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus, Loki or similar.\nFamiliarity with security vulnerability triage, including CVEs and dependency risks.\nExperience with AWS services such as RDS, S3, ElastiCache and IAM.\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills with the persistence to dig into root causes.\nClear communication skills and the ability to translate technical findings into practical next steps.\nNice to have\nExperience with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools.\nFamiliarity with Docker, CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.\nExperience with Ansible or other configuration management tools.\nFamiliarity with RabbitMQ, Kafka, Celery or similar technologies.\nExperience with Sentry, Aikido, AWS Inspector or AWS GuardDuty.\nExperience with Django or a similar web framework.\nAn interest in EV charging, energy or mobility.\nWhy Optimile\nMeaningful technical challenges with real-world impact.\nHigh ownership and autonomy across our platform.\nThe opportunity to work across engineering, operations, security and product.\nModern infrastructure and engineering practices with a strong focus on reliability.\nClose collaboration with experienced Product and Engineering colleagues.\nPlenty of opportunities to learn, share knowledge and grow.\nAn international, fast-growing company helping accelerate the transition to sustainable mobility.\nReady to make our platform more secure, reliable and resilient? 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