Skills and expertise

• You have a consultative/guiding/curious nature

• You need to be able to figure out and understand the real WHY behind the needs and tech, and propose the best path forward

• Being able to critically analyse customers requirements and requests to propose the best path forward according to cloud-native standards and best practices

• Be opinionated on how to do cloud and DevOps things in a SaaS context, but be open to new/different ideas and be able to adjust accordingly

• Have great writing and communication skills and the ability to deliver your expertise and solutions in clear ways

• AWS experience is a requirement, Azure knowledge is a bonus

• Kubernetes experience is a must, specifically conceptual understanding of Kubernetes, its use cases, and operating workloads on it

• Experience in consulting or (solutions, application, cloud) architecting is a bonus

• The more experience you have in any category that we are active in, the better. This is anything from DevOps practices, (SaaS) cloud and application architectures, containerisation, application and data migrations, etc

• Having advanced knowledge in one or more of these areas: security, CI/CD, observability, DR/BC, FinOps, database performance optimisation is definitely a plus

• Having an AWS certification, a CNCF certification or any other relevant Cloud/DevOps certification is a plus

About you

• Respect, honesty and transparency are important values to us

• Excellent writing skills, both for documents and in communication

• Take responsibility, personal leadership and ownership in the roles and tasks you carry 

• Open mindset and willing to give AND receive feedback

• A mindset of continuous improvement: for yourself as a person, for the things we do and figure out and for the team you work in

Compensation and benefits

For this role we're looking at a yearly compensation of between € 60K and € 95K, depending on your experience, seniority and location of living. This is the budget if we hire you through a contractor-agreement. Depending on where you live, we can also hire you on our payroll in which case we will work out an equivalent gross salary with benefits.

Check out our hiring page for more information on how we determine compensation.

What else do we offer you?

So much! 30 days of vacation, remote working, flexible work-times, personal development through our resident personal coach, conference budget and so on. Too much to list here. Check out the hiring page for details.

Note: we don't provide visa sponsorships and relocations.

Want do know more?

• For information on working at Skyscrapers, benefits, hiring process, etc check out the hiring page.

• Want to know how we make our customers feel? Check out our customers’ praise page.