Senior DevOps Engineer (Kubernetes)

Location: Hybrid role based in either Ghent, Belgium or Paris, France.

Salary: €70,000–€120,000 per year, with potential bonus or commission, equity, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global provides digital performance, verification, optimization, and analytics solutions for advertisers, agencies, publishers, and digital ad platforms.

What you will do

• Design, deploy, and operate Kubernetes platforms across GCP, AWS, and data center environments supporting more than 100 engineering teams.
• Build and maintain shared Kafka, Aerospike, Airflow, Prometheus, and Grafana services processing billions of events with 99.9%+ reliability.
• Create self-service tooling, automation, operators, controllers, and management tools that improve developer experience and deployment velocity.
• Define infrastructure standards for automation, observability, security, reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Partner with product, DevOps, SRE, and engineering teams across the US, Israel, and Europe on technical infrastructure initiatives.
• Use metrics, logs, and traces to diagnose distributed-system issues, resolve bottlenecks, and deliver lasting improvements.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE roles operating production infrastructure at scale.
• 3+ years of hands-on Kubernetes experience in production environments; experience owning or managing a Kubernetes platform is valued.
• Strong expertise with GCP or AWS; multi-cloud experience is valued.
• Software engineering mindset with the ability to write Python, Go, or Bash to solve infrastructure problems.
• Experience using metrics, logs, and traces to troubleshoot distributed systems.
• Ability to design for reliability, scalability, and developer experience.
• Ability to communicate complex infrastructure concepts to application developers and collaborate across teams.
• Demonstrated initiative, ownership, systems thinking, and empathy for developers.

Nice to have

• Production experience with Kafka, ArgoCD, Aerospike, or Airflow.
• Experience with service mesh technologies such as Envoy Gateway or Istio.
• Experience with GitOps workflows and infrastructure as code using Terraform or Crossplane.
• Contributions to open-source platform tooling or CNCF projects.
• Experience with Site Reliability Engineering practices and culture.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on infrastructure platforms supporting digital advertising verification for Fortune 500 brands.
• Autonomy to make architectural decisions, define standards, and own systems end to end.
• Work with cloud-native and CNCF technologies, including Kubernetes, Kafka, Aerospike, ArgoCD, and Envoy.
• Collaborate with specialists in SRE, AI infrastructure, security, and development across the US, Israel, and Europe.
• The role may include bonus or commission, equity, and benefits.