DevOps Specialist

Ready to join the fastest-growing tech company in the Netherlands?

In 2023 we received the prestigious Oryx Award 2023 by the Dutch Financial Newspaper (FD), for the company with the most exceptional growth performance. We were awarded 1st place by the Deloitte Fast 50 award in 2019 for growth and innovation, 7th place in 2020. We’ve continued our strong growth during and after Covid times, and have ambitious plans for the future. Now, we are looking for a driven and skilled Senior PHP Backend Developer to join our  team to further conceptualize and execute our growth ambition.

About Experiencegift

Experiencegift is home to Hotelgift, Flightgift, Traingift and Activitygift. Our gift cards can be redeemed for over 750,000 hotels, 400 airlines, 50,000 activities worldwide and train journeys all across Europe. We believe in experiences over things. Our mission is to enable our customers to spread joy by giving the gift of experiences that can be redeemed whenever, wherever. As we sell in over 50 countries worldwide, we’ve built a diverse team of over 50 colleagues and more than 15 nationalities. We have subsidiaries in Amsterdam, London, Athens, and New York.

What makes the role so great?

As our DevOps Specialist, you will be the cornerstone of our service reliability and scalability, enabling us to 'reinvent travelling.' You'll architect and implement cutting-edge infrastructure solutions, drive automation, and optimize our CI/CD pipelines to support rapid innovation and handle services at scale.

What will you do?

• Setting up and managing cloud-based infrastructure and its costs.

• Managing Database instances, including backups, replication, and performance tuning.

• Implementing CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment.

• Monitoring application performance and health. Ensuring reliable operation of message brokers through message queues (e.g., RabbitMQ/ Redis).

• Containerising applications for reliable performance (e.g., Docker) and orchestration of these containers (e.g., Kubernetes).

• Integrating security practices into the development lifecycle (e.g., SAST, DAST, secrets management, container scanning).

• Collaborating with software engineers to define infrastructure and deployment requirements.

• Developing infrastructure as code using Terraform or CloudFormation.

• Monitoring system performance, availability, and security using observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana).

• Performing regular threat modeling, vulnerability assessments, and incident response exercises.

• Leading initiatives to enforce security baselines (IAM hardening, TLS, least privilege access,  WAF, etc.).

• Mentoring Dev team members and promote best practices across the organization.

What will you bring?

• Residency in Greece

• Proven experience with AWS and infrastructure automation.

• Deep understanding of cloud security concepts and compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST).

• Experience with secrets management solutions (e.g., Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, SOPS).

• Familiarity with zero trust principles, network segmentation, and secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC).

• Fluency in English

Who are you?

• Passionate & curious: You love backend development, and you enjoy learning and experimenting

• Problem-solving: You are not afraid of challenges, and you are able to utilise the proper means to find solutions

• Collaborative: Ability to work effectively in a team and independently with minimal supervision

• Detail-oriented: You pay attention to the detail, ensuring every design implementation feels just right
  

What can you expect from us?

• Opportunity for significant and fast impact

• Freedom to come up with new ideas and initiatives

• Lots of learning and development opportunities

• Salary reflective of skills and experience and performance-based bonus potential

• High-end new laptop

• Lunch and snacks provided

• Fun after-work and monthly events

• Awesome annual trip abroad with the entire company

• Young, friendly, ambitious, international team in Amsterdam, Athens, Cairo and London

This is a full-time job (40H/week) based in Athens and is available as soon as possible.

At Experiencegift we offer you the opportunity to work in a scale-up culture where everything you do matters. In our team, you will have the freedom to experiment and evolve your own projects. You will be part of an international, driven, award-winning team and will gain experience in a very fast-growing scale-up environment. By providing a creative, dynamic, and innovative environment, we empower our people for unlimited success.

Ready to make a real impact in a thriving company? Apply directly here or visit our career page for more details. We are looking forward to meeting you!

No agencies please, we manage our recruitment processes internally.