AI-Native DevOps Engineer

About Oper

Oper a European Fintech company is a leader in cloud-based digital mortgage software. We provide personalized journeys for borrowers and lenders. Opers technology streamlines the mortgage application process eliminates paperwork and increases transparency.

The fastest growing part of our business is Herman our AI agent for mortgage origination. Herman reads documents checks them and works a credit file the way an analyst would inside the regulated workflow of a real bank. It runs on sovereign EU infrastructure because our clients cannot send mortgage data anywhere else. Phase by phase it automates more of the origination process: first employed borrowers then the self-employed and onward. This is not a chatbot bolted onto old software. It is agentic software doing real work in a regulated environment.

A passionate and engaging team of around 30 stellar Fintech operators works vigorously to transform European mortgages by enhancing efficiency and alleviating borrower anxiety. Backed by Bessemer Venture Partners and Motive Ventures we have raised EUR 14 million placing Oper at the forefront of revolutionizing mortgages in Europe. Oper is headquartered in Antwerp Belgium.

Now were looking for an AI-Augmented DevOps Engineer to join our Engineering team and keep the infrastructure behind Herman fast reliable and secure as we scale across Europe.

Tasks

Your Mission

Youll own and evolve the cloud infrastructure that Herman and our SaaS product run on. This is a hands-on role spanning infrastructure CI/CD and platform reliability in a regulated security-first environment. Youll build and maintain the pipelines clusters and infrastructure-as-code that let our engineers ship quickly and safely on sovereign EU infrastructure where mortgage data has to stay put. Just as importantly youll be the person developers and non-developers turn to when something needs debugging deploying or unblocking. You make the rest of the team faster. Youll join a small senior DevOps team reporting directly to the CTO with the room and the mandate to lead: you set the direction for how the platform is built and run and grow into the technical anchor for infrastructure at Oper as we scale.

What youll do

• Manage our infrastructure platform through Terraform
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitLab or GitHub) that make shipping fast repeatable and safe.
• Run our Kubernetes workloads managing deployments through GitOps with Argo CD.
• Manage cloud infrastructure as code with Terraform primarily on Google Cloud Platform and IBM Cloud.
• Support developers and non-developers alike: provide hands-on debugging help unblock deployments and make the platform easy to work with.
• Own security and compliance in the platform. Build infrastructure that stays audit-ready and meets the demands of a regulated fintech including ISO 27001 and NIST.
• Manage secrets identities and certificates securely across the platform keeping every tenant properly isolated.
• Participate in on-call duties to ensure availability of the system during office hours.

Work AI-native

Building agentic software is what we do and we expect you to operate your platform the same way: AI-first.

• Use AI agents to generate the bulk of your infrastructure code pipeline configuration and scripts under your direction while you own the architecture the review and the quality. We measure your impact in shipped reliable infrastructure not hand-typed lines.
• Build agentic workflows that do real platform work: scaffolding Terraform modules from a spec drafting and debugging pipeline configs generating runbooks and triaging incidents.
• Use modern AI tooling as the default way you build configure and debug not as an occasional helper.
• Aim for a delivery cadence a non-AI-native engineer simply cannot match and help us raise the bar on what an AI-native platform function looks like at Oper.

Requirements

What youll bring

• 4 years of DevOps or platform engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated ownership of production infrastructure.
• Strong cloud experience primarily on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) our main practice youll also touch AWS Azure and IBM Cloud so multi-cloud comfort is a real plus.
• Experience with managing Kubernetes Terraform and Argo CD.
• Proficient with CI/CD pipelines preferably GitLab or GitHub.
• Solid scripting skills ideally Python; Bash or Typescript also welcome.
• Comfortable collaborating closely with developers and non-developers providing support and guidance.
• Security and compliance awareness given our regulated fintech environment.
• You are AI-native: agents already write most of your code and you build agentic workflows to multiply your output. You can name the tools the workflows and the concrete recent projects where AI gave you real leverage.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Creative and analytical mindset.
• Ambition to learn experiment and grow while staying humble and open-minded.
• Fluency in English; additional languages (e.g. Dutch German) are a plus.
• Experience in a relevant industry (financial services) and thriving in a scale-up environment are a plus.

Benefits

Location & Setup

• Belgium-based
• Hybrid setup with 2-3 days per week in our Antwerp office
• Working in CET hours
• Reporting to the CTO
• Close collaboration with the Engineering team and the wider organization
• Participation in limited on-call duties

Benefits

As a fast-growing fintech were building a team where you can truly make an impact.

We offer:

• Competitive annual salary depending on experience
• Employee stock options
• 25 vacation days per year 1 paid mental health day
• Dynamic international team with 12 nationalities
• Supportive inclusive and collaborative culture
• Learning & Development budget with dedicated time for growth
• Structured onboarding with a dedicated mentor
• Travel budget for collaborating in our headquarters in downtown Antwerp
• Annual company-wide Team Get Together in an inspiring location
• Extra-legal benefits depending on your location
• Full support with local administration
• Health insurance and pension scheme
• Flexible working hours
• All the equipment needed to do your best work

Inclusive at Our Core

Oper is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and contractors. All applications are considered without regard to race religion gender gender identity sexual orientation disability age or any other protected status.