DevOps Engineer

Job Overview

Join Our Team as a DevOps Engineer at Beyond Sports! If you’re energized by ensuring resilient cloud infrastructure, love solving complex technical challenges, and want to shape the backbone of cutting‑edge sports‑tech products, this could be your next big step.

This is a unique opportunity: you will be the first DevOps hire based in our Alkmaar office, taking ownership of DevOps and SRE responsibilities that will empower our engineering teams to focus on what they do best. You will operate at the intersection of our .CONNECT and .STUDIO pillars, supporting .DIGITAL and .PLAY, with full backup from our Platform Engineering team in the UK and Australia.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintaining and improving cloud-based systems across AWS, ensuring high availability and performance.


• Troubleshooting and resolving infrastructure, deployment, and environment issues to support customers quickly and effectively.


• Designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for Unity, Unreal, and .NET applications.


• Managing infrastructure as code using Terraform, CloudFormation, and CDK.


• Ensuring observability across systems, leveraging tools like Grafana, CloudWatch, Loki, and Prometheus.


• Collaborating with teams across engineering to automate workflows, improve deployment processes, and optimise cloud usage.


• Mentoring colleagues on DevOps best practices, automation strategies, and infrastructure design.


• Driving continuous improvement within the Platform Engineering function and the wider organisation.

Required Qualifications

You don’t need to tick every box — but here’s what we’re ideally looking for:

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a DevOps, SRE, or cloud engineering role


• Experience operating distributed systems at scale.


• Strong AWS knowledge and hands-on experience with IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK).


• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines — especially for Unity, Unreal and .NET.


• Working knowledge of SQL and relational database principles.


• Experience with observability tools (Grafana, CloudWatch, Prometheus, etc.).


• Development experience with an object-oriented language (e.g., .NET).


• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.


• Analytical mindset, attention to detail, and strong problem-solving capabilities.


• Proactive attitude and the drive to improve systems and processes.

About Beyond Sports

This role is based on-site in our Alkmaar office, 40 hours per week. You must be living in the Netherlands and eligible to work in the EU. We are currently not offering visa sponsorship.

Benefits

• High‑Impact Work - Your contributions will directly influence the infrastructure behind innovative sports‑tech products used worldwide.


• Continuous Learning - Access to courses, mentorship, and exposure to modern cloud technologies and best‑in-class DevOps tooling.


• Global Collaboration - Work alongside engineering teams in the Netherlands, UK, and Australia, supporting projects with international reach.


• 25 vacation days — rest is essential.


• Pension program — invest in your future.


• Fresh daily lunches crafted by our in‑house chef.


• Company gym card — stay energetic and healthy.


• Fresh fruit, coffee, beverages, and Friday afternoon drinks.


• Bi‑monthly team outings and office games (Cornhole, table tennis, basketball).