Operations Engineer – Apigee OPDK / Linux RedHat
Company profile
At AppyRuns, we elevate IT operations to mission-critical status. We provide 24/7 active monitoring, security, logging and management for API platforms and event streaming systems.
We don’t just hand over systems, we own the operational responsibility. For our clients, we make sure APIs and supporting infrastructure are always up, performant and secure. We operate environments for major organizations including PostNL, Centrica, Eneco and more, and we take pride in being the trusted operations partner.
Our work spans from proactive disruption detection, to instant fixes, to insight-driven logging and observability. We let our clients focus on their core business, we keep everything behind the scenes running perfectly.
Job description
You will join our operations team as a senior engineer responsible for the full lifecycle of a large Apigee OPDK environment.
Your mission: keep it secure, performant and up to date.
- Maintain and upgrade Apigee OPDK (from 4.52 to 4.53 and beyond)
- Manage Linux RedHat infrastructure and related databases (Postgres, Cassandra)
- Automate deployments and maintenance tasks using Ansible Tower, GitLab and Jenkins
- Monitor systems with ELK, Dynatrace or Prometheus and act on alerts proactively
- Participate in disaster recovery drills and critical incident management
- Scale capacity and ensure high availability across dozens of servers
- Work closely with the client (English speaking) to plan and execute changes
- Join our on-call rotation (once every six weeks)
You won’t just watch dashboards you own the platform.
Requirements
- 5 plus years of experience managing large Linux Red Hat environments in production
- Proven experience with patching upgrades networking and troubleshooting
- Automation mindset using Ansible Tower GitLab and Jenkins
- Monitoring experience with ELK Dynatrace or Prometheus
- Familiarity with Kubernetes or OpenShift and Autosys is a plus
- Any experience with Apigee OPDK or Hybrid is great but we will train you if needed
- Strong communicator in English structured and reliable
- You care about uptime ownership and doing things the right way
- We look for engineers who think ahead automate what they can and never stop improving
Benefits
- Salary up to €6 000 per month (excluding holiday allowance)
- Pension contribution and benefits equal to AppyThings
- Hybrid / remote setup within the EU time zone
- Option to relocate to the Netherlands over time — we’ll help you settle in
- Training and certification budget for Apigee and cloud technologies
- A team of six experienced engineers who cover each other 24/7 and learn together
- A culture where reliability, ownership and humour go hand in hand
Interested? Apply trough the link or send an email to l.verweij@haystackpeople.nl
