DevOps engineer (Nu.nl)

  • IT
  • Hoofddorp, Netherlands

DevOps engineer (Nu.nl)

Job description

Hoofddorp - As a DevOps engineer at NU.nl you contribute to the biggest digital news brand in the Netherlands, with a monthly reach of more than seven million Dutch people. The impact you make is huge and contributes directly to the user experience.

Currently the team is working on a complete app review, to start introducing personalization; next to that the team is constantly discussing new ideas and trying to implement the best ones.

What are you going to do?

  • You are responsible for continuously improving the infrastructure and the delivery pipelines that are used for NU.nl
  • Together with your squad, you will support the other NU.nl squads as well as exchange best practices with the wider DPG Media organisation. 
  • You know what's happening in the AWS and CNCF landscape and are able to translate that into actionable roadmap items.

The team
NU.nl has several development teams. A team consists of a product owner, several developers, a designer, tester and scrum master. In sprints of 2 to 3 weeks you work closely together on the optimization of our product. The various departments, including editorial, marketing, IT and the product team, each contribute an essential part to the total experience. The NU.nl team is ambitious and talented, with passion and pleasure anchored in the DNA of NU.nl.

We offer
  • An experience-based salary;

  • 36-hour workweek;

  • 12% personal choice budget (of which 8% is holiday allowance);

  • Participation in the profit sharing arrangement;

  • Personal development opportunities such as education, training and certificates;

  • Hybrid working (office location in Hoofddorp);

  • Working with the latest technologies.


Even more reasons to work at DPG Media
At DPG Media, we work for more than 90 strong news brands, magazines, television shows, radio stations, and online services such as Qmusic, NU.nl, Tweakers, Libelle, and VTM. Although we look like a media group, we are really a tech company. We get digital transformation done.

We offer a high-performing tech workplace where we treasure freedom, from how you find solutions to choosing your path. Feel free to be an entrepreneur, an apprentice, a team player, and, of course, to be you. We welcome everyone to apply, whatever your background may be. A great bunch of smart colleagues awaits you and are eager for you to join the team.

Learn what we have to offer you or get to know our tech company! And while you’re at it, you can find us on LinkedIn and Twitter too.

Job requirements

Job requirements

  • Experience with AWS, Kubernetes (EKS)
  • Experience with Infra-as-Code, preferably Terraform and Helm
  • Programming experience
  • Familiar with all concepts of continuous delivery (CI/CD, various forms of automated testing, branching models, automation)
  • Pre: Experience with node.js/Typescript and Python


As the largest media company in the Netherlands, we are open to all talents in our society. We call on candidates with a diverse background - in the broadest sense of the word - to apply for this position. It’s the differences between colleagues that lead to surprising insights and innovative solutions. And that, in turn, fits very well with us as an organization. We are curious about you, your qualities, and your experience.

Will you be our new colleague? Then apply now!
Want to know more first? I would be happy to answer your questions via sven.eissens@persgroep.net

We prefer to do our recruitment ourselves and do not need any help with this.