DevOps Lead Engineer and Build Master

Introduction

Are you a smart and enthusiastic DevOps developer with leadership qualities who would like to play a pivotal role at a leading software company where the atmosphere is good and your own input is appreciated?

We, the IBM IntelliMagic Team in Leiden, develop specialist software in the field of performance management of mainframe and storage systems. IT departments use IntelliMagic software to manage their storage environment.

To support our software development, we are looking for an in-house DevOps engineer who can take responsibility for our test frameworks, build environment, and workflow automation, develop them further, and manage others in the DevOps team.

Your role and responsibilities

As a DevOps Engineer, you are responsible for developing the following tasks:

• The in-house multi-platform (Windows, Linux) test frameworks (Perl, PowerShell)
• The build scripts (MSBuild, CMake, PowerShell, C#)

In addition, as a build master you have the following tasks:

• Maintenance and expansion of the build and test automation systems (TeamCity, VMWare)
• Setting up a new build pipeline in SPS/Tekton
• View the build and test results on a daily basis, troubleshoot issues in the build and test environment, and bring build and test failures to the attention of development.

You also manage two colleagues within an international team

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• You have completed VWO and a bachelor's or master's degree in a science direction, preferably computer science.
• You can understand complex code, extend it accordingly, and come up with ideas for improvement.
• You keep track of new developments and apply them when it is advantageous and opportune.
• You feel responsible for the quality of your work and provide robust and maintainable code.
• You think conceptually about technical design and look for structural solutions.
• You have the following technical skills:
  • Extensive experience in writing and maintaining complex applications in Perl.
  • Proficient in an object-oriented programming language such as Java or C#.
  • Familiar with PowerShell and MSBuild, or you like to master this variety of languages/tools.
• You are friendly and work well with all kinds of colleagues, especially developers and testers.
• You have very good problem-solving skills and dive independently into complex new material.
• You are careful, use checklists, and expand procedures and documentation on your own initiative.
• You are fluent in English and Dutch, or are willing to learn the latter through an intensive course.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Client-provided location(s): Katwijk aan Zee, Netherlands

Job ID: IBM-54700

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-09-09T18:52:28