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Join a collaborative international team securing the cloud-native backbone of Dustin’s e-commerce platforms, protecting millions of transactions while enabling fast, secure software delivery. Work hands-on with Kubernetes, AWS, GitOps, and AI-powered security tooling in an environment built on ownership, automation, and impact.

This is what makes the position as Software Engineer DevOps unique

• Secure the cloud-native platforms behind Dustin’s e-commerce business, protecting customer-facing storefronts that serve millions of transactions across multiple markets.

• Work with a modern GitOps and Kubernetes ecosystem where security is built into automated delivery pipelines, not bolted on afterwards.

• Combine AI-powered tooling with cloud-native engineering to shape how security, automation, and developer productivity evolve across the organisation.

The Hiring Manager for the role is Konstantinos Maounis, Manager Platform Enablement. As a leader, he believes the best teams are built on trust, transparency, and continuous learning. He strives to create an environment where people feel empowered to take ownership, challenge ideas, support one another and grow both professionally and personally while working on meaningful technical challenges.

The team has a strong international, collaborative culture where people actively share knowledge and help each other succeed. Led by Konstantinos, the focus is on automating the routine work so the team can spend more time on meaningful technical challenges. It’s an environment built on trust, ownership, and continuous improvement, where your ideas truly make an impact.

Your role & influence as Software Engineer DevOps

Responsibility: You will be given responsibility for strengthening the security posture of Dustin’s cloud-native platforms and delivery pipelines, embedding security into every stage of the software lifecycle while enabling fast and reliable software delivery.

Collaboration: Together with your team, you take care of building secure, scalable, and reliable platforms that support Dustin’s customer-facing digital services. You'll work closely not only with your immediate team members but also with the Web, Data, QA, and Engineering teams to deliver secure solutions without compromising developer productivity.

Core activities

• Embed security into the software development lifecycle by integrating security controls, automation, and best practices into CI/CD pipelines.

• Secure and optimize AWS cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes environments, and containerized workloads using modern cloud-native security principles.

• Enable proactive threat detection and incident response through monitoring, observability, vulnerability management, and continuous security improvements.

Benefits of joining Dustin

We believe there's more to Dustin than just the benefits listed here. You'll fully understand this once you're with us. Curious? Our Life at Dustin page has you covered. 

You can find more of our benefits below in the vacancy.

This is what we imagine you bring

We envision you as a curious and driven individual who is passionate about cloud-native technologies, automation, and building secure platforms that enable teams to move fast with confidence.

Additionally, it's important that:

• You have a bachelor's degree level of working and thinking.
• Experience with DevSecOps, Platform Engineering, or Security Engineering in cloud-native environments, including AWS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Technical skills in Kubernetes security, AWS security services, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK), GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux, scripting (Bash/Python), observability tooling, and modern AI-powered development and security tools.

What can you expect next?

To ensure a fair recruitment process free from unconscious bias, we handle your application anonymously and do not accept cover letters. Please refrain from sending one, so that the selection is based solely on professional competencies. We expect the following steps in the recruitment process:  

• Telephone screening with Talent Acquisition Partner, Karishma

• Intro Meeting with the Hiring Manager, Konstantinos and another colleague.

• First Interview/ Case Discussion with Hiring Manager, Konstantinos and another colleague.

• Second Interview with Director, Product & Platform Engineering, Rob

• Professional References

Please note that for this specific job, we don´t provide any relocation or work permit sponsorship support.

We encourage you to apply and express your interest. However, due to the summer holiday period, there will be a delay in our response.

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