DevSecOps Engineer (AWS)

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands; hybrid work with at least 3 office days per week. Candidates must be able to work in the Netherlands. Relocation support is not available.

Company

Lepaya is an international scale-up delivering blended workplace learning through its Portal, Academies, and App.

What you will do

• Build and improve secure AWS infrastructure using Terraform, including least-privilege IAM, encryption, and network controls.
• Embed dependency, container, secrets, and policy-as-code scanning into CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop secure-by-default infrastructure modules for engineering teams.
• Strengthen security across a multi-account AWS organization through identity management, threat detection, and vulnerability management.
• Automate compliance evidence collection and support security audits.
• Improve monitoring and observability with Grafana Cloud, OpenTelemetry, security signals, and alerting.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of experience in DevOps, Platform, Cloud, or Security Engineering, preferably in a start-up or scale-up.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and cloud-native orchestration services.
• Strong understanding of IAM, hardening, encryption, network security, and secrets management.
• Experience with security automation such as vulnerability scanning, SAST/SCA, policy-as-code, or cloud security posture management.
• Scripting skills in Bash or Python and strong English communication skills.
• Ability to work in the Netherlands and attend the Amsterdam office at least 3 days per week.

Nice to have

• Experience with ISO 27001, SOC 2, or GDPR compliance.
• Exposure to DAST tooling, offensive security, or software supply chain security.
• Experience with GCP alongside AWS.
• Experience with TypeScript.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hours and a hybrid working arrangement with Tuesday and Thursday as anchor days.
• Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
• Unlimited holidays and Lepaya Fridays every other Friday.
• Health and wellbeing support through the work-to-live scheme and Empowr.
• Learning and career development through Lepaya Academy and the internal hiring program.

Hiring process

• Introductory video call with Talent Acquisition.
• Interview with the engineering team followed by a technical case assignment and technical interview at the office.
• Coffee chat, hiring manager discussion, and final offer stage.