Senior Technical Specialist
Netherlands
Job Description
Senior Technical Specialist
Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Job Summary

Your role

As an Operations Engineer, you join a multidisciplinary, international agile squad based in Leeuwarden that develops, maintains, and operates its own systems. You contribute throughout the full lifecycle—from refining user stories to ensuring production stability and observability.

 

What we expect

• Work both independently and collaboratively
• Communicate clearly and openly in English
• Show a proactive, learning‑oriented mindset
• Be detail‑oriented and able to deliver under pressure
• Share knowledge effectively within the team
• Have experience in corporate and/or financial agile environments
• Have experience with large‑scale, high‑availability platforms (24/7, resilience, reliability)
• Perform platform operations (deployments, automation, LCM, support, risk, coding, testing, runbooks, incident/change management, observability, capacity, dependencies, service availability)
• Design reusable automation and tooling for multiple teams
• Participate in standby/on‑call rotations• Postgres application DBA experience (setup, usage, performance, monitoring, DDL, optimization)
• Linux and shell scripting (Bash / Python)
• Containerization (Docker)
• Ansible
• Azure DevOps Pipelines
• Git / GitHub / Maven
• Observability tooling (ELKaaS, Prometheus, Grafana)

 

 

Required skills

• Postgres application DBA experience (setup, usage, performance, monitoring, DDL, optimization)
• Linux and shell scripting (Bash / Python)
• Containerization (Docker)
• Ansible
• Azure DevOps Pipelines
• Git / GitHub / Maven
• Observability tooling (ELKaaS, Prometheus, Grafana)

Key Responsibilities

Your role

As an Operations Engineer, you join a multidisciplinary, international agile squad based in Leeuwarden that develops, maintains, and operates its own systems. You contribute throughout the full lifecycle—from refining user stories to ensuring production stability and observability.

 

What we expect

• Work both independently and collaboratively
• Communicate clearly and openly in English
• Show a proactive, learning‑oriented mindset
• Be detail‑oriented and able to deliver under pressure
• Share knowledge effectively within the team
• Have experience in corporate and/or financial agile environments
• Have experience with large‑scale, high‑availability platforms (24/7, resilience, reliability)
• Perform platform operations (deployments, automation, LCM, support, risk, coding, testing, runbooks, incident/change management, observability, capacity, dependencies, service availability)
• Design reusable automation and tooling for multiple teams
• Participate in standby/on‑call rotations• Postgres application DBA experience (setup, usage, performance, monitoring, DDL, optimization)
• Linux and shell scripting (Bash / Python)
• Containerization (Docker)
• Ansible
• Azure DevOps Pipelines
• Git / GitHub / Maven
• Observability tooling (ELKaaS, Prometheus, Grafana)

 

 

Required skills

• Postgres application DBA experience (setup, usage, performance, monitoring, DDL, optimization)
• Linux and shell scripting (Bash / Python)
• Containerization (Docker)
• Ansible
• Azure DevOps Pipelines
• Git / GitHub / Maven
• Observability tooling (ELKaaS, Prometheus, Grafana)

Skill Requirements

Your role

As an Operations Engineer, you join a multidisciplinary, international agile squad based in Leeuwarden that develops, maintains, and operates its own systems. You contribute throughout the full lifecycle—from refining user stories to ensuring production stability and observability.

 

What we expect

• Work both independently and collaboratively
• Communicate clearly and openly in English
• Show a proactive, learning‑oriented mindset
• Be detail‑oriented and able to deliver under pressure
• Share knowledge effectively within the team
• Have experience in corporate and/or financial agile environments
• Have experience with large‑scale, high‑availability platforms (24/7, resilience, reliability)
• Perform platform operations (deployments, automation, LCM, support, risk, coding, testing, runbooks, incident/change management, observability, capacity, dependencies, service availability)
• Design reusable automation and tooling for multiple teams
• Participate in standby/on‑call rotations• Postgres application DBA experience (setup, usage, performance, monitoring, DDL, optimization)
• Linux and shell scripting (Bash / Python)
• Containerization (Docker)
• Ansible
• Azure DevOps Pipelines
• Git / GitHub / Maven
• Observability tooling (ELKaaS, Prometheus, Grafana)

 

 

Required skills

• Postgres application DBA experience (setup, usage, performance, monitoring, DDL, optimization)
• Linux and shell scripting (Bash / Python)
• Containerization (Docker)
• Ansible
• Azure DevOps Pipelines
• Git / GitHub / Maven
• Observability tooling (ELKaaS, Prometheus, Grafana)

Other Requirements

Your role

As an Operations Engineer, you join a multidisciplinary, international agile squad based in Leeuwarden that develops, maintains, and operates its own systems. You contribute throughout the full lifecycle—from refining user stories to ensuring production stability and observability.

 

What we expect

• Work both independently and collaboratively
• Communicate clearly and openly in English
• Show a proactive, learning‑oriented mindset
• Be detail‑oriented and able to deliver under pressure
• Share knowledge effectively within the team
• Have experience in corporate and/or financial agile environments
• Have experience with large‑scale, high‑availability platforms (24/7, resilience, reliability)
• Perform platform operations (deployments, automation, LCM, support, risk, coding, testing, runbooks, incident/change management, observability, capacity, dependencies, service availability)
• Design reusable automation and tooling for multiple teams
• Participate in standby/on‑call rotations• Postgres application DBA experience (setup, usage, performance, monitoring, DDL, optimization)
• Linux and shell scripting (Bash / Python)
• Containerization (Docker)
• Ansible
• Azure DevOps Pipelines
• Git / GitHub / Maven
• Observability tooling (ELKaaS, Prometheus, Grafana)

 

 

Required skills

• Postgres application DBA experience (setup, usage, performance, monitoring, DDL, optimization)
• Linux and shell scripting (Bash / Python)
• Containerization (Docker)
• Ansible
• Azure DevOps Pipelines
• Git / GitHub / Maven
• Observability tooling (ELKaaS, Prometheus, Grafana)

Information at a Glance

Why HCLTech?

At HCLTech, you'll supercharge your potential. You'll find your career. And you'll find your spark. All at a place that knows that helping its customers stay on top starts by putting its people first.

HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 223,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending June 2026 totaled $14.8 billion.