Lead technical direction on client engagements: own architecture decisions, set engineering standards, and ensure solutions are built to last across Kubernetes/AKS, event streaming, CI/CD, security, and AI/ML-ready platforms.
Serve as the trusted technical voice for clients: challenge assumptions, shape roadmaps, and help senior stakeholders understand trade-offs without drowning them in jargon.
Embed as a technical anchor in client teams: guide engineers through design and implementation, raise the collective bar through code reviews, pairing, and structured feedback.
Drive modernisation at scale: supported migrations from on-prem, monolith, and ESB landscapes towards microservices, domain-driven, and event-driven architectures with a clear plan, not just a vision.
Own the technical narrative: facilitate architecture reviews, run engineering workshops, and translate complex system challenges into clear options, trade-offs, and decisions.
Remove what slows teams down: identify systemic bottlenecks in tooling, process, or architecture and work with client leadership to actually fix them.

6–10+ years of software and/or DevOps engineering experience, with at least a few years in a lead or principal capacity.
A track record of leading technical delivery on real-world, complex systems: services, data pipelines, integrations, AI/ML workloads, or platform engineering.
Deep understanding of software design principles, distributed systems, and architectural patterns (DDD, EDA, microservices, API design).
Strong instincts around code quality, testing strategy, observability, and production reliability.
Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform (preferably Azure), including networking, identity, security, and managed services at scale.
Solid grasp of CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and automation. You've built and maintained these, not just used them.
Kubernetes/AKS experience at a level where you can make architectural and operational decisions, not just run workloads.
Experience leading engineering teams or workstreams: setting direction, unblocking people, and holding technical quality.
Proven consultancy skills: stakeholder management, facilitating difficult conversations, and delivering clear recommendations under pressure.
Comfortable operating across organisational levels, from pairing with a junior engineer to advising a VP of Engineering.
Dutch fluent, English professional.

Remote (Country)

You don't need a methodology religion. You know when to lean on structure and when to cut through it.
Scrum, Kanban, something in between: you read the room and help teams find a rhythm that actually works for them.
You've collaborated in messy, multi-team environments with different vendors, different cultures, and different definitions of "done", and you know how to find common ground without losing your standards.
You think in systems, not tickets: you care about how the team works together as much as what they ship.

Devleaps is hiring a Technical Lead