Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer | SurePay

Location: Hybrid from Utrecht | Competitive Salary + 8% Holiday Allowance + 8% Personal Benefits Budget | FinTech SaaS | 1 Day/Week in Office

 

Build infrastructure that stops fraud at scale!

At SurePay, we process billions of real-time payments across Europe—keeping transactions safe, secure, and going to the right person. Trusted by 200+ banks and 300+ corporates, we’re expanding fast, and our infrastructure needs to keep up.

That’s where you come in.

 

The role

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you’ll be a key player in designing, maintaining, and scaling our cloud-native platform. You’ll lead infrastructure automation, enhance observability, and enforce security standards while mentoring others and shaping our DevOps culture.

We’re AWS-native (90%), containerised (EKS/K8s), and manage everything as code. This isn’t just support work,it’s a chance to architect solutions, own systems, and drive change in a production-critical environment.

 

What you’ll do

• Design and maintain high-availability infrastructure in AWS using Terraform, CloudFormation, and EKS
• Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and deployment automation tools
• Implement secure, reproducible environments using Docker, Helm, and hardened AMIs/images
• Lead incident response and own root cause analysis for production issues
• Enhance our observability stack (ElasticSearch, Grafana, OpenSearch) to support proactive monitoring
• Champion security and compliance patch management, IAM policies, OS hardening, audit trails
• Collaborate with engineers, product teams, and SREs to ensure operational excellence
• Mentor junior/mid-level DevOps engineers and contribute to internal tooling and standards
  
  

Tech stack snapshot

• Cloud: AWS (EKS, EC2, CloudTrail, S3, IAM, VPC, ALB/NLB, Lambda)
• IaC: Terraform, CloudFormation
• Containers: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), Helm
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Bash/Python scripting
• Monitoring & Logging: OpenSearch, ElasticSearch, Grafana
• Scripting/Automation: Python, Bash, Ansible, Jinja
• Languages: Working knowledge of Java (nice-to-have for debugging services)
  
  

 

What you bring

• 5+ years’ experience as a DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, or SRE
• Deep hands-on expertise with AWS and container orchestration in production environments
• Strong automation mindset (you never do the same thing twice manually)
• Proven experience securing infrastructure and enforcing operational best practices
• Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and network-level debugging
• You document what you build, love a clean repo, and think in Git
• You’re comfortable being on-call or leading incident retros (you own what you ship)
• Clear communicator, strong collaborator, natural mentor
  
  

 

What we offer

• 8% holiday allowance + 8% personal benefits budget (cash, training, or time off, it’s up to you)
• Competitive salary with room to grow
• 25 holiday days + flexible hours + hybrid working 
• NS Business Card for travel
• MacBook Pro, iPhone, and all the gear you need
• Pension plan
• A DevOps culture that actually believes in automation, ownership, and clean delivery
• A fast-moving scale-up environment where you can have real architectural impact
• A team of 100+ across 40+ nationalities, united by curiosity and code
• Regular team meetups, offsites, and Friday drinks 🍻
  
  

Why now?

We’re scaling fast. Our fraud prevention platform is expanding across Europe, and we’re building new products, services, and capabilities all of which require scalable, secure, and bulletproof infrastructure.

If you want to solve real-world challenges at scale, lead technical decisions, and ship reliable systems in a purpose-driven team…we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now or reach out to chat.

About SurePay 

• Founded in 2016 
• ± 100 employees
• ±30 nationalities
• 1 office
• Flat organisation and no hierarchy
• (Business) Casual
• Average age: 31

SurePay makes payments easier, more personal and even more secure. We are a fast-growing FinTech SaaS company and have secured our Series A funding in September 2021. SurePay stems from an innovation program of Rabobank, started in July 2016 and has been an independent BV since the beginning of 2020. SurePay is being backed by three leading investors, Rabo Frontier Ventures, Connected Capital and Iris Capital.

As we continue to evolve and grow, we're working hard to scale further in Europe while continuing to build our talented and driven team. Currently, we're working according to agile methodologies with 5 scrum teams and a business team made up of various disciplines.

You might know us from our leading product, the IBAN-Name Check, also known internationally as Confirmation of Payee. It's used by millions of people on a daily basis and is incorporated into payment platforms of banks, corporates and governmental bodies throughout the Netherlands and the UK. We recently also connected to France, meaning we have started providing cross-border checks. We are planning to continue expanding within Europe, bringing our mission of preventing fraud and misdirected payments. Not only are we entering new markets, but also growing our services and product offering through continuous innovation.

SurePay's core values are; We Care, Build Together, Think Forward and Be Responsible. These core values are the driver's of our culture and can be seen as guidelines on our beliefs and behaviour. It defines what we find important as a company and the way we work together everyday.

• We Care: We are a supportive employer and understand that health, family and safety is what really matters. We care about our employees, customers, partners and end-users. Therefore we value creating a safe workspace where everybody can be their authentic self and where we, together, work on the same mission to provide safer payments.
• Build Together: We believe in teamwork and strive towards the best results together with employees and customers. Our diversity, both personal and professional, is one of our key strengths. 
• Think Forward: We are frontrunners and are on top of our game. Our customers can rely on innovative solutions to service their current and future needs. With a problem solving mindset, we anticipate challenges and adapt to a fast changing environment. 
• Be Responsible: We all contribute to reaching our mission of reducing fraud and misdirected payments, leading to a positive impact on society. We take responsibility, show ownership and make honest decisions.

More information

More information?
careers@surepay.nl