Technical Application Manager

We ARE Renewables is looking for a Technical Application Manager for one of our clients in the energy sector.
As a Technical Application Manager Interconnects, you are responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining critical applications and processes that support cross-border electricity exchange.

Task and Responsibilities

• Designing, developing, and maintaining robust cross-border processes using Ansible, focusing on performance, reliability, security, observability, and scalability
• Containerizing and deploying workloads to Kubernetes clusters, applying best practices for CI/CD, monitoring, certificate management, and fault tolerance
• Implementing comprehensive test coverage (unit, integration, and system testing) to ensure quality and stability
• Diagnosing and resolving issues in testing and production environments, with a strong focus on root cause analysis and sustainable solutions
• Continuously improving codebases, deployment pipelines, and engineering practices
• Actively contributing to design discussions, code reviews, and knowledge sharing
• Participating in standby/on-call rotations (approximately once every two months) for mission-critical systems

Key Requirements

• Experience with Ansible and Python
• Experience with SQL databases (preferably Oracle RDBMS)
• Experience with or willingness to learn GitLab, VMware, and Kubernetes
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and modern DevOps practices (e.g., GitOps, observability, Elastic/ECK, auto-scaling)
• Experience working in Agile environments (Scrum / Kanban) and in cross-functional teams
• Strong sense of ownership across the application lifecycle

Location: Arnhem + Hybrid
Duration: ASAP – June 2027