DevOps engineer

Make an Impact with Smart Software Solutions

Imagine working in an innovative team where your code truly makes a difference. As a DevOps Engineer within the Developer Experience department of Product Development, you play a crucial role in ensuring smooth software development for our robots and management software.

Together with a multidisciplinary team of Cloud Platform and CI/CD Engineers, you make it easier for developers to seamlessly run their code on a robot. You collaborate closely with project teams responsible for our advanced robotics solutions and contribute to building and distributing APT packages to thousands of customers worldwide. Additionally, you design, improve, and monitor the CI/CD architecture, ensuring the quality and security of our software remain consistently high.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Standardizing the build process for various software packages (APT, Python, NPM, containers, and more).
• Maintaining and optimizing existing GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
• Ensuring software quality through design and code reviews, unit and integration tests, and addressing technical debt.
• Actively contributing to the Agile workflow by setting goals, tracking progress, and managing risks.

What Tools Will You Work With?

To perform at your best, you'll be using:

• Artifactory
• GitLab
• Docker
• Targetprocess
• C/C++
• Python
• NPM
• Debian

You are a driven engineer with a passion for software development and CI/CD. You know how to streamline complex processes and aren’t afraid to experiment with new technologies. Additionally, you have:

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Experience in building APT packages and knowledge of container technologies.
• Work experience with CI/CD pipelines, with GitLab experience being a plus.
• A solid understanding of cybersecurity and its application in software development.
• Experience working in multidisciplinary Agile Scrum teams.

To address the food demand and challenge for 2050, it is crucial to handle people, animals, and the environment responsibly. For us, this means being a reliable long-term partner for our customers and passing on the world to the next generation through sustainable product development. You can contribute to realizing this dream.

What can you expect in your role as a DevOps engineer?

• Working in an international work environment within one of the most innovative organizations in the Netherlands and also the largest robot producer in Europe.
• Excellent employment conditions, including up to 8 weeks of vacation.
• A full-time salary scale between €4700 and €6000 gross per month where we would like to see a growth option within the scale.
• Opportunities for growth where you are in charge of your own development.
• Space and freedom to innovate, bring in new ideas, and undertake initiatives. We not only offer this, but we also genuinely expect it. It's up to you to come up with ideas and implement them.
• A team with enthusiastic, helpful colleagues, collaborating with product development, procurement, and other stakeholders.
• Our Lely Academy offers various training programs, such as personality training or more job-relevant training. If you want to develop yourself but it's not in the curriculum, you discuss it with your manager.
• The #FitatLely program with our own Lely Gym. A volleyball court, basketball court, football table, and ping pong table where you can challenge your colleagues or take a break from work.
• Lease-a-Bike scheme to lease a new bike affordably.
• Additionally, enjoy the services and wide range of coffee and tea from our personal barista at the Lely Campus, who makes the tastiest cappuccinos from fresh milk, directly from our own farmer from the Lely Orbiter, for example.
• A healthy work-life balance with a hybrid policy where you are 60% on Campus. This is flexible and can be arranged in consultation with your manager. Prefer more time on our modern Campus? You are always welcome (between 06:00 a.m. and 08:00 p.m.).
• Moreover, we love to celebrate. Whether it's an anniversary or our Christmas party, at Lely, we know how to celebrate!

Over Lely

At Lely, we believe in achieving a sustainable, profitable and agreeable future for dairy farmers by combining robotisation, engineering and farming expertise.

It all started with a dream cherished by two brothers in Maassluis 75 years ago, and ever since, we have worked to become innovative market leaders in automated systems for dairy farmers across the globe. With a team of 2,500 professional specialists, we work constantly to bring about revolutionary solutions for the agro industry. We are based at our Maassluis Campus, a building which features the highest sustainability performance possible, not just in the Netherlands, but on a global scale. Our overall objective: making dairy farming interesting, also for the coming generations.