How will you respond? 
Though not a soldier, do you want to work for the Ministry of Defense? 
Working for the Ministry of Defence is a socially significant career choice. You'll make a real difference in making the Netherlands safe and secure. The Ministry of Defence employs around 24,000 civilians in addition to 42,000 professional troops and 7,000 reservists. The Materiel and IT Command (COMMIT) is where you will be employed. COMMIT is dedicated to providing the greatest tools, resources, and IT to help colleagues both domestically and internationally. This enables them to keep carrying out their duties as successfully and economically as they can. 
You will contribute to the development of faultless service delivery for the Defense organization as a DevOps Engineer Low Code/Mendix. 
How will you respond? 
At the Ministry of Defence, your duties as a DevOps Engineer will include improving, maintaining, and refining the low-code platform. As an active participant in the low-code community, you will make that decentralized development adheres to accepted standards and frameworks. Working together with other developers and designers, you will provide guidance and assistance in the creation of reliable and useful programs. In order to promote reusability, you and your coworkers will create sample apps and oversee the Mendix low-code site. 
Your primary duties consist of: 
. Monitoring and Maintenance: The Ministry of Defence oversees and maintains the services for thousands of users on a daily basis. 
. You play an active part in the Low Code community by making sure that the technical implementation is done correctly. 
. Automation and CI/CD: To speed up development and deployment procedures, automate manual chores and set up and use CI/CD pipelines. 
. Cooperation: To efficiently create and enhance apps, actively collaborate with other developers, designers, and service managers. 
. Technical Process Improvement: Help the team and the community enhance technical procedures, workflows, and best practices. 
. Documentation: Keeping track of the technological procedures and solutions that have been produced. 
In addition to having the chance to work with the newest technology and contribute to safety and service delivery inside Defence, you will be part of a youthful, vibrant, and passionate team. 
Who do we want to find? 
What do we want to know? 
Experience and expertise: 
. At least five years of experience as a software engineer or dev operations engineer; at least five years of experience with Mendix, preferably as a Mendix expert; HBO working and thinking level; 
. familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and cloud computing technologies. Continuous Delivery (e.g., GitLab), Secret Management (e.g., Conjur, Vault), Kubernetes (e.g., RKE2, OpenShift), IAM/SSO, Monitoring, Logging & Tracing. 
Proficiency: 
. the capacity to solve problems, pick things up fast, and adjust to new technology. 
. Excellent communication abilities for working with community members and development teams across the many defensive components. 
. the capacity to function autonomously and make choices under duress. 
. You operate with precision and a strong sense of accountability. 
. You can learn new tools, methods, and procedures on your own; you are a real autodidact. 
. You think practically. When necessary, you provide prompt solutions without sacrificing technical excellence. 
. analytical reasoning and meticulousness in the creation and application of solutions. 
. the capacity to record systems and procedures. 
. enthusiasm for increasing operational efficiency and automating processes. 
What you receive from us is this. 
Scale of salaries level 11 
The minimum monthly wage is €4,750 gross. 
Maximum monthly salary: €6,550 gross 
Duration of the contract This is a temporary position with the possibility of long-term work. 38 hours each week