DevOps / Security Engineer
Join the CropXR Data Engineering team and help build resilient, sustainable, climate-adapted crops in an exciting collaboration between biologists, computational scientists, and software engineers.
Job description
Securing and scaling the digital infrastructure for plant resilience research. CropXR is a Dutch public-private research initiative focused on climate-resilient agriculture. Within CropXR, the Resilience Hub provides a central digital infrastructure for integrating and analysing experimental, phenotypic, and genomic, data from a broad range of academic and industrial research partners. The Resilience Hub is built at TU Delft in collaboration with SURF, the Dutch national research and education network, which provides cloud infrastructure, storage, and associated digital services for the academic and research community. To strengthen the technical foundation of the Resilience Hub, we are looking for a DevOps / Security Engineer who will help design, operate, and secure the platform infrastructure. The role focuses on ensuring that the system is reliable, scalable, and secure, while aligning with best practices for research data platforms.
This position is part of the engineering team supporting CropXR’s data infrastructure.
You will:
- Design, implement, and maintain the infrastructure supporting the Resilience Hub, primarily using services provided locally and through SURF.
- Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines for reliable deployment of services.
- Ensure security-by-design across infrastructure and services.
- Manage and improve identity and access management (IAM), authentication, and authorization systems.
- Work with SURF-provided services for compute, storage, networking, and platform integration, ensuring optimal use of the available research infrastructure.
- Monitor system performance, reliability, and security, and implement alerting and incident response procedures.
- Contribute to architectural decisions around scalability, cost efficiency, and maintainability.
Job requirements
We are looking for candidates with:
- Experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering roles.
- Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and containerized systems.
- Hands-on experience with tools such as Kubernetes, container, and CI/CD systems.
- Security experience in Python environments
- Experience implementing or maintaining security controls, including network security, secrets management, and access control.
- Familiarity with identity and access management (IAM) systems and secure service-to-service communication.
- Solid programming or scripting skills.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability systems.
We would particularly value experience with:
- Experience working with or in collaboration with SURF cloud and other services.
- Security practices in research, academic, or data-intensive environments.
- Operating systems handling sensitive or large-scale scientific data.
- Infrastructure supporting data platforms, scientific computing, or ML workflows.
- Incident response, vulnerability management, and security auditing.
- Working in interdisciplinary environments involving both researchers and engineers.
Applicants who do not meet every requirement but have relevant infrastructure and security engineering experience are encouraged to apply. Please note: due to Dutch regulations, only candidates from EU countries or those with a valid Dutch work permit are eligible for this position.
TU Delft (Delft University of Technology)
Delft University of Technology is built on strong foundations. As creators of the world-famous Dutch waterworks and pioneers in biotech, TU Delft is a top international university combining science, engineering and design. It delivers world class results in education, research and innovation to address challenges in the areas of energy, climate, mobility, health and digital society. For generations, our engineers have proven to be entrepreneurial problem-solvers, both in business and in a social context.
At TU Delft we embrace diversity as one of our core values and we actively engage to be a university where you feel at home and can flourish. We value different perspectives and qualities. We believe this makes our work more innovative, the TU Delft community more vibrant and the world more just. Together, we imagine, invent and create solutions using technology to have a positive impact on a global scale. That is why we invite you to apply. Your application will receive fair consideration.
Challenge. Change. Impact!
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
The Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) brings together three scientific disciplines. Combined, they reinforce each other and are the driving force behind the technology we all use in our daily lives. Technology such as the electricity grid, which our faculty is helping to make completely sustainable and future-proof. At the same time, we are developing the chips and sensors of the future, whilst also setting the foundations for the software technologies to run on this new generation of equipment – which of course includes AI. Meanwhile we are pushing the limits of applied mathematics, for example mapping out disease processes using single cell data, and using mathematics to simulate gigantic ash plumes after a volcanic eruption. In other words: there is plenty of room at the faculty for ground-breaking research. We educate innovative engineers and have excellent labs and facilities that underline our strong international position. In total, more than 1000 employees and 4,000 students work and study in this innovative environment.
Click here to go to the website of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science.
Conditions of employment
- Duration of contract is 2 years Temporary
- A job of 38-40 hours per week.
- A salary based on Scale 10 of the CAO for Dutch Universities with a salary between €3546 - €5538 gross per month based on a fulltime contract (38 hours), plus 8% holiday allowance and an end-of-year bonus of 8.3%.
- An excellent pension scheme via the ABP.
- The possibility to compile an individual employment package every year.
- Discount with health insurers on supplemental packages.
- Flexible working week.
- Every year, 232 leave hours (at 38 hours). You can also sell or buy additional leave hours via the individual choice budget.
- Plenty of opportunities for education, training and courses.
- Partially paid parental leave
- Attention for working healthy and energetically with the vitality program.
Additional information
If you would like more information about this vacancy or the selection procedure, please contact Thomas Abeel, via t.abeel@tudelft.nl.
Application procedure
Are you interested in this vacancy? Please apply no later than 28 June 2026 via the application button and upload the following documents:
- CV
- Motivational letter
You can address your application to Thomas Abeel.
Please note:
- You can apply online. We will not process applications sent by email and/or post.
- As part of knowledge security, TU Delft conducts a risk assessment during the recruitment of personnel. We do this, among other things, to prevent the unwanted transfer of sensitive knowledge and technology. The assessment is based on information provided by the candidates themselves, such as their motivation letter and CV, and takes place at the final stages of the selection process. When the outcome of the assessment is negative, the candidate will be informed. The processing of personal data in the context of the risk assessment is carried out on the legal basis of the GDPR: performing a public task in the public interest. You can find more information about this assessment on our website about knowledge security.
- Please do not contact us for unsolicited services.