Medior DevOps Engineer

Jet-Stream | Groningen, hybrid | full-time

Every stream we deliver runs on infrastructure that someone has built, automated and made reliable. We are looking for a DevOps Engineer who enjoys that work and makes our platform a little more robust, faster and smarter every day.

What we build

Jet-Stream has been a streaming pioneer for more than thirty years. We are now developing two new platforms at the same time:

Jet-Stream is a high-end media platform with multiple dynamic pipelines for live and on-demand video, with glass-to-glass monitoring. A professional custom media workflow that would take weeks or months to build in the cloud is set up here in minutes, on one central, standardised platform, instead of building custom solutions again and again and maintaining dozens of stacks side by side.

StreamZilla is our new VOD platform, built on the same foundations.

Why this is different

We take compliance to the extreme in everything we do, and we go beyond the formal requirements:

  • Technical: the highest quality and standards compliance in encoding and packaging
  • Privacy: fully GDPR compliant, privacy-first by design
  • Digital sovereignty: our own hardware, our own infrastructure, not a single non-EU dependency
  • Green: efficiency is not an afterthought but a design principle

Our systems are critical. Every disruption is immediately visible to large numbers of viewers. That makes the work serious, and that is what makes it fun.

What you will do

You build, maintain and improve the infrastructure that both platforms run on. In practice:

  • You automate everything that can be automated: deployments, provisioning, monitoring, recovery
  • You build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code
  • You safeguard reliability and performance and resolve incidents in complex distributed systems
  • You take part in 24/7 operations and technical support for our B2B customers
  • You work closely with the Tech Lead and a small team of streaming and development specialists.
  • You migrate all customers to the new platform.

Our stack

Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code · Go and Python · GitLab CI/CD and Docker · modern observability tooling · distributed systems, low-latency streaming, transcoding and packaging · our own hardware in EU data centres

What you bring

  • 4+ years of experience in DevOps and software development
  • Good programming skills in Python and Go, for automation and backend work
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and building CI/CD pipelines
  • Proven troubleshooting skills in high-traffic distributed systems
  • A feel for system performance and where the gains are
  • Independent in your work, but a true team player
  • Fluent Dutch and excellent English, spoken and written

Bonus points

  • A background in streaming technology or content delivery
  • Experience leading DevOps projects from start to finish
  • Knowledge of monitoring and alerting for high-availability services
  • Experience with security best practices in cloud-native environments
  • Knowledge of video streaming protocols (HLS, DASH, CMAF, SRT, RTMP)

Requirements

  • You speak fluent Dutch and have an excellent command of English
  • You can provide a Dutch Certificate of Conduct (VOG)

Screening

Jet-Stream provides sovereign infrastructure for customers with demanding requirements. That is why every candidate in the final round goes through a nationality and background screening, in line with our sovereignty and ISO profile. We tell you in advance exactly what we check and why.

What we offer

  • Building two new platforms from the ground up, with thirty years of streaming experience in the team
  • Working with petabytes of data, our own hardware and real scale
  • Plenty of room for initiative and to grow, in technology and in responsibility
  • An attractive salary and good terms of employment
  • MacBook, mobile phone, flexible working hours and hybrid working from the centre of Groningen
  • A no-nonsense team that works hard and enjoys it.

How to apply

Does this sound like you? Send your CV and a short motivation to hr [at] jet-stream.com. No need for a lengthy cover letter, but a good conversation is a must.

About Jet-Stream

Streaming has become so commonplace that nobody gives it a second thought. We do, because we were there when it started. In 1994 we delivered the first streams in the Netherlands. We dreamed of a world where video and audio would be available anytime, anywhere. We would never have dared to predict that it would become billions of streams, for the most demanding professional customers in Europe.

More than thirty years later, we are an independent, leading specialist. Broadcasters, publishers, sports clubs, brands and events rely on our platform for live and on-demand streaming. We stand out on what really matters: quality, reliability, privacy, digital sovereignty and green services. Our customers rate us 9.5 out of 10.

In recent years we have reinvented ourselves. We have invested in our own sovereign cloud on our own hardware, two new platforms (Jet-Stream and StreamZilla), a new brand identity and our own film and podcast studios. The foundations are in place, the new direction is paying off, and now we are looking for the people who will take it further.

Jet-Stream is a solid, profitable company without external investors. We don't have to hit growth targets for shareholders, so we can focus on what matters: customers, quality and innovation. We are European, Dutch and down-to-earth in true Groningen style. A small team, short lines of communication, informal but professional. We work hard, and we enjoy it.