Senior DevOps Engineer

Permanent employee, Full-time · Amsterdam, Australia (VIC), Australia (NSW), Remote

Your mission


At Nicolab we connect the physicians and streamline their emergency care workflows, providing physicians with AI-analyzed scans and centralized patient information. 

We currently are..
  • Operational in 10+ countries across 4 continents;
  • Established presence in Europe and Australia. 
  • Quickly expanding to China, Middle East and the rest of Europe and Australia;
  • 30+ employees across the world, with an office in Amsterdam and Australia.


Why We Need You (Our Challenge)

We started with a lean, stroke-focused product built entirely for GCP. Now we're expanding beyond stroke and beyond Google Cloud with an ambitious migration to a new cloud-agnostic, scalable platform. This involved rewriting our core systems using cutting-edge technologies that run on Kubernetes across any cloud provider. As we expand into new areas of healthcare, we've focused on creating an extensible platform that can easily adapt to new features and requirements. 



The Ideal Candidate (Who we are looking for)

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead the infrastructure strategy as we enter the final stage of our platform transition. With core development nearing completion, your primary objective is to architect and enforce the resilient, high-availability infrastructure required for launch and scaling. You will take full ownership of our deployment pipelines and scaling capabilities, ensuring the stability while orchestrating a seamless migration of our customers to the new architecture.

Moreover, you have the following set of people skills that we want;

  • Quality-Minded Builder: You care about code quality and maintainability as much as speed. You write infrastructure that is clean, well-organized, and designed to be understood by future maintainers.

  • Excellent Communicator: You can lead technical discussions with both internal teams and external customers with clarity and confidence.

  • Proactive & Independent: You are a natural problem-solver who takes initiative and finds solutions.

  • Strategic Thinker: You can align your technical priorities with overarching company goals.

  • Flexible & Open-Minded: You can change your mind when presented with new information and thrive in an environment of constructive technical debate.

Your profile

What You’ll Do (Tasks & Responsibilities)

  • Own Kubernetes: Take ownership of the entire lifecycle of our production Kubernetes environments, ensuring they are secure, monitored, and highly available.

  • Own AWS: Though our platform is entirely cloud agnostic and will run in multiple cloud providers, the large majority of our production instances will be hosted in AWS, and as such, you will take ownership of managing our infrastructure in AWS. 

  • Architect & Build: Help design and build our platform, choose tools and technologies that best suit our platform to the architectural needs of our customers. 

  • Mentoring: Mentoring and educating two other DevOps engineers who will work alongside you. 

  • Collaborate with Customers: Support the Customer Success team by helping hospital IT departments with their most technical questions. 

  • Strengthen Infrastructure: Design and maintain core networking infrastructure, including VPCs, firewalls, and VPNs.

  • Enable Engineering: Collaborate closely with backend, frontend, and machine learning engineers to support their infrastructure needs and empower them to work efficiently.


What You’ll Bring (Your Technical Skills)

We’re looking for a seasoned engineer with a strong background in building and scaling resilient cloud infrastructure.

Must-Haves:

  • Kubernetes Mastery: Deep, hands-on expertise in deploying, managing, and troubleshooting containerized applications on Kubernetes in a production environment.

  • AWS Expertise: 7+ years of experience designing and implementing secure, scalable infrastructure in cloud providers, of which a considerable amount is in AWS.

  • Infrastructure as Code: Expert-level proficiency in IaC and a mindset to automate everything. 

  • Strong Networking Foundation: A solid understanding of cloud networking principles (VPCs, DNS, load balancing, firewalls, VPNs).

  • CI/CD Skills: A strong background in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., using ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar).

  • Programming Skills: Though writing code won’t be a daily responsibility, you need the ability to read and understand our applications written in Go, Python (and Rust).

  • Tech Stack Familiarity: Knowing each and every tool in our stack is not required, but there should be a good overlap between our stack and your experience. 

Nice-to-Haves:
  • Medical Data Experience: Familiarity with medical data formats like DICOM is a plus.

  • Working in a highly regulated environment like the medical or financial sector.


Why us?
Our Tech Stack
  • GitOps / IoC / CI/CD

            Argo CD, Gitlab, Terraform, Atlantis, CloudFormation, Atlantis.

  • Networking

            Cilium, Gateway API, ALB Loadbalancer, VPC Peering/ AWS Direct Connect.

  • Day-2-operations 

            Argo Rollouts, Argo CD, cert-manager, External Secrets, external-dns, Karpenter.

  • Observability

            OpenTelemetry LGTM (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir), Alloy.

  • Cloud Providers 

             AWS, GCP, AliCloud, Hetzner.

  • Messaging 

            NATS, Pub/Sub, protobuf, gRPC.

  • Storage

             Postgres, MongoDB, MinIO, S3, GCS.

  • Backend

             Go, Python, Rust. 



We Offer You

  • Chance to make a real difference in patients' lives

  • Work in a stimulating environment with a motivated team

  • Flexible Employment Agreement: Part time / Fulltime / Remote (EOR Contract*)

  • Flexible working hours

  • Flexible paid time off*

  • Remote work policy

  • Laptop + home office/IT equipment*

  • Commuting to work/office* - costs reimbursement

  • Pension plan scheme*

  • Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP)*

  • Corporate programs including Employee Referral Program with rewards

  • Learning & Development opportunities including in-house training and coaching, professional certifications, and over 22,00 courses on LinkedIn Learning Solutions and much more

*All benefits and perks are subject to certain eligibility requirements



Application Process

  • Interview with Recruiter/HR

  • Interview with Future Manager (hiring manager)

  • Interview with Peers (no managers present) 

  • Prior employment verification check (reference/background check)

  • Interview with Executive 


About us
Nicolab was founded in 2015 following the acclaimed MR CLEAN trial, the first Randomised Clinical Trial proving the benefit of Endovascular Treatment. The trial led to a global paradigm shift in acute stroke care and triaging, resulting in the hospital Hub and Spoke model.

Leading MR CLEAN researchers and our co-founders, Dr. Merel Boers and Dr. Renan Sales Barros, recognized the need for an AI solution to revolutionize stroke care. With exclusive access to the heterogeneous MR CLEAN dataset, Nicolab developed StrokeViewer. StrokeViewer provides the most accurate AI algorithms to diagnose stroke patients worldwide. 

Our background is steeped in leading clinical research, which is why we continue to invest and contribute significantly to research, ensuring that Nicolab remains at the forefront of driving innovative change and improving outcomes for stroke patients.

While Nicolab continues to run its operations with Headquarters in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, we are proudly an Australian-based publicly unlisted company with an expanding global presence.

Visit our website: Nicolab.com
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