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Help build the digital future of education.

Are you a curious, analytical front-end developer? Do you enjoy working with modern technologies and does building smart, secure, and privacy-conscious solutions for our end users energize you? And would you also like to play a key role in the future of student mobility in the Netherlands? Then this position as Front-end Developer eduXchange at SURF is exactly where you are looking for.

Where you will work

SURF is the ICT cooperative for Dutch educational and research institutions. Together with them, we work on digital services and complex innovation challenges to enhance the quality of education and research. Within our Education Services department, we work with institutions to develop smart solutions for flexible education, digital learning materials, and the sharing of educational data. As a front-end developer at eduXchange, you will contribute to this effort.

The team you will join

You will be joining the new development team, one of four teams within the Education Services department. The team works on developing and using services in the field of digital learning materials and flexible education for vocational, higher professional, and university education. From this team, you will be assigned to the eduXchange product team. There, you will work together with a product manager, a technical product manager, software developers, and a UX designer. We have an open attitude towards each other and help each other where necessary.

Working at SURF means working for a unique and open organization. This is evident in everything: the structure of the organization, the setup of the project teams, the culture in our offices, and the atmosphere among colleagues. SURF offers excellent terms of employment and takes a flexible approach to work/life balance. Employees enjoy working independently. In addition, everyone is given the space and freedom to use and develop their talents as effectively and broadly as possible.

What you will do

As a Front-end Developer, you will play a key role in the further development of the eduXchange service. EduXchange brings together the educational offerings of alliances (collaborations between educational institutions). The front-end of eduXchange makes it as user-friendly as possible for students to explore and sign up for these offerings. You will ensure that this front-end is and remains user-friendly and performs optimally.

What else are you involved in?

• You develop new front-end solutions and ensure that they perform optimally;
• Together with the other developers, you review code and suggest improvements (DevOps);
• You contribute ideas for new applications and support the UX designer and technical product manager in designing new functionality and improving the user experience;
• You develop supporting tools for testing and quality control.

Your skills and experience

• You have a higher professional education (HBO) or university education (WO) level of working and thinking, preferably in the field of Computer Science or Software Engineering, with 3-5 years of relevant work experience.
• You work independently and have a results-oriented approach—you never lose sight of the higher goal for our users.
• You are a team player with good communication skills—you communicate clearly with both tech colleagues and non-technical stakeholders.
• You have experience with (open source) software development and development methodologies in an innovative environment;
• You have experience with Cypress, Next.js, and Typescript;
• Knowledge of and experience with Privacy by Design and Security by Design is an advantage (preferred).

SURF takes pleasure in doing its recruitment itself; acquisition is therefore not appreciated.

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer with an affinity for SRE (Site/Service Reliability Engineering). Are you enthusiastic about the latest technologies in the field of Infrastructure as Code, Containers and Cloud Technologies? Would you like to work in a unique, interesting and dynamic working environment that focuses on the connection between science, ICT and society? Would you like to design and develop the most comprehensive and user-friendly cloud services for research and education? Do you enjoy working with stakeholders? Then read on!

Where you will work

SURF is the ICT cooperative for Dutch educational and research institutions. Together with them, we work on digital services and complex innovation challenges to enhance the quality of education and research.

The HPC Cloud team works closely with other SURF teams, public cloud providers and the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) to offer the SURF Research Cloud (SRC) service and the national EOSC node. SURF Research Cloud creates efficient virtual research environments at national and international level. This enables users to increase their scientific impact. We take the time to get to know and understand the scientists, translate their projects into technical and user requirements, and work together to find a solution.

The team you will join

The HPC Cloud team is an energetic and multidisciplinary DevOps team. We have seven nationalities and are very internationally oriented. We develop, manage and support SURF Research Cloud and collaborate with the European Open Science Cloud. To this end, we maintain contracts with SURF members, national and international research infrastructures and research communities. In addition to our daily work, we also organise fun activities together.

Working at SURF means working for a unique and open organisation. This is evident in everything: the structure of the organisation, the set-up of the project teams, the culture in our offices and the atmosphere among colleagues. SURF offers excellent terms of employment and a flexible approach to work/life balance. Employees enjoy working independently. In addition, everyone is given the space and freedom to use and develop their talents as effectively and broadly as possible.

What you will do

You will contribute to the development of the DevOps and Agile culture within SURF. In addition, you will proactively participate in the design and implementation of services running on platforms such as Kubernetes, Openstack, AWS, Azure, Google GCI and Oracle OCI, both for our internal users (e.g. development teams, consultants) and for end users in science, research and education.

What else you are involved in

• You will actively participate in the ongoing process of (re)designing our range of cloud services. All software for the services you work with has been developed by SURF and is open source.
• You will work extensively with Kubernetes, creating implementations and solving problems, and you will feed your findings back into the codebase to improve the overall quality of our CI/CD infrastructure as code. This includes associated monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• You will improve the security and reliability of our infrastructure, with a focus on IAM, secrets management and compliance. You will also contribute to the documentation of processes, systems and best practices to ensure knowledge sharing and maintain transparency within the team.
• You will work with suppliers and users to link state-of-the-art technologies to potential future research and educational needs.
• You will participate in developers sprint meetings.

The technology you will be working with

• You will develop and maintain Terraform modules, Ansible Playbooks and Helm Charts, with a dash of Bash and Python.
• You will design, implement and optimise CI/CD pipelines (GitLab) to deploy services on Kubernetes and public clouds.
• You will work with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and ELK Stack.
• The SRC technology stack consists of: Terraform, Vault, Packer, Ansible, Docker Compose and Kubernetes. The clouds we support are on-premise OpenStack, AWS, Azure, Oracle and Google Cloud Platform. We are working on other hypervisors, job-based systems and clouds. SRC supports various Linux variants and MS Windows on virtual machines.

Your skills and experience

• You have a bachelor's or master's degree in a technical discipline.
• You are familiar with DevOps and Git-oriented approaches and are willing to help and guide others in applying these methodologies.
• You feel comfortable taking responsibility for the availability, performance and monitoring of services.
• You are curious about emerging technologies; words such as Docker and Kubernetes are part of your “normal” toolbox, but you are also very familiar with the “basics” (also known as Linux skills).
• You have experience with a programming or scripting language, such as Python, and are familiar with configuration management tools and Infrastructure as Code (Ansible, Terraform, etc.).
• You understand and appreciate the complexity of multi-layered IT environments and have a functional understanding of concepts and definitions such as: frontend, backend, databases, network topologies, identity management, security groups, firewalls, service meshes, service discovery, zero-trust, etc.
• You are service-oriented, solution-oriented and feel comfortable in a team where we share what we don't know, we ask for help and guidance, we don't hide mistakes and we work hard to make each other better and more productive.
• Previous experience with a cloud provider is strongly preferred, but where necessary we can supplement this later.

Prior to starting this job, a VOG must be presented.

SURF takes pleasure in doing its recruitment itself; acquisition is therefore not appreciated.