Experienced DevOps Engineer

Experienced DevOps Engineer As a DevOps engineer for RheumaFinder (), you will take ownership of the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of our deployment, infrastructure, and operational ecosystems — both in clinical environments and in the cloud. Your responsibilities will encompass building and maintaining secure, scalable, and automated infrastructure using AWS, Kubernetes, and modern DevOps tooling. You will oversee, automate, optimize our CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, software deployments, monitoring, and logging systems. You will closely collaborate with our engineering and AI teams to ensure reliable, compliant, and high-performance development to production environments for our medical devices and AI applications. Operating within an ISO-compliant quality and regulatory framework, you will ensure robust documentation, configuration management, and operational excellence. In addition, you will manage system administration tasks, support hybrid on-premises and cloud setups, and help define best practices for security, observability, and infrastructure scalability across the company

You are expected to be at the office in Ghent at least 3 days per week, so it's a hybrid position with focus on the office. We do not offer relocation services or costs, nor VISA processes.

What is the company’s value proposition?

Rheumatism is a collective name for about two hundred acute and chronic disorders that affect our musculoskeletal system (muscles, tendons, joints) and the associated connective tissue. Rheumatic diseases are systemic diseases, in other words they can manifest themselves all over the body and affect organs such as blood vessels, kidneys, liver, lungs and heart. There is no age indication on rheumatic diseases. Babies and young children can also develop a rheumatic disease. RheumaFinder’s software is an advanced AI solution that will detect rheumatic lesions within medical imaging. As rheuma is a very prevalent disease (> 5% world population), our solutions will help to solve the problem of underdiagnosis (up to 50%) and delayed diagnosis (up to 10 years) in rheumatic diseases. If patients with these diseases would remain undiagnosed, progressive joint destruction occurs with subsequent symptoms (pain, limited mobility), decreased quality of life due to a lifelong disease burden and high societal costs. In summary, the value proposition is an AI-based automated early detection of signs of rheumatic diseases in medical imaging to support subsequent diagnosis, follow-up and patient therapy management.

What you actually will be doing

You will be a key contributor for the establishment and continuous improvement of the infrastructure and operational backbone of our AI-powered medical solutions. These systems are deployed both in the cloud and within hospitals and imaging centres worldwide, where reliability, security and regulatory compliance are critical. As a central member of our growing team, you will report directly to the CTO and collaborate closely with our Quality, AI Engineering and Medical Science teams to shape the final end-to-end solution. You love learning new things, sharing knowledge with teammates, and proactively taking ownership to drive projects to completion. You are excited about the impact of AI in healthcare and its potential to improve clinical outcomes. Your work will ensure our technology meets the highest standards of safety, accuracy, quality and regulatory compliance— helping us deliver robust, clinical-grade products.

Your responsibilities:

Lead the design, deployment, documentation and ongoing management of cloud and on-premises infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, containerized environments) in development, testing and production environment

● Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, infrastructure-as-code, and environment lifecycle management.

● Implement, document and maintain a high standard of cybersecurity for the medical device products as well as generally within the organisation

● Manage software configuration management, documentation, and operational processes within an ISOcompliant quality framework

● Ensure system reliability, scalability, and security through robust monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability practices

● Conduct root-cause analyses for operational incidents, and define/implement corrective and preventive measures

● Collaborate with our customers for the installation, maintenance and problem solving of on-premise software installation

● Daily interaction with the product development, quality and medical teams

Qualifications Competences:

● Excellent hands-on and problem-solving attitude and skills

● Good communication and documentation skills

● The desire to work in a dynamic environment of a young and fast-growing medical technology company ● Demonstration of attention to detail, and the ability to meet high standards of regulatory compliance

● Proficiency in Dutch is highly preferred, along with fluency in spoken and written English

● Able to meet a hybrid working environment with an on-site presence of at least three days.

● Clear and effective communication, while keeping the team vibe high with a good sense of humour.

Technical qualifications:

● Minimum 2 to 5 years of experience in a DevOps / DevSecOps position

● Min. bachelor’s degree in computer science or comparable track record or degree;

● Strong hands-on experience with AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, SQS, Lambda, CloudWatch).

● Solid experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration

● Experience with the packaging, delivery and management of virtual machine images

● Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (OpenTofu), configuration management, and secrets management.

● Proficiency with monitoring/observability tools (e.g., Sentry, OpenTelemetry or similar)

● Strong understanding of GitHub workflows, CI/CD pipelines and configuration management.

● Familiarity with information security standards (ISO 27001, HIPAA) and best practices for secure deployments.

● Knowledge of DICOM interfacing, PACS workflow and development in a clinical context is a big plus

● Experience within quality assurance or regulatory compliance for medical devices is preferred

● Experience with interfacing AI models (or other compute-intense processes) in a workflow is a bonus

This is what we offer you:

● A position for 40 hours;

● A market conform salary depending on your experience

● Legal holidays supplemented with compensatory holidays due to a work week of 40 hours

● Additional legal benefits such as hospitality insurance, meal vouchers, eco vouchers and pension allowance

● Work in a startup environment where you get freedom, responsibility and a direct impact

● A unique opportunity to become part of an early med-tech startup with vast career growth potentials

● Work at the heart of the Ghent start-up scene with a team of smart and ambitious people

● Work with a proven positive impact on people’s health and life

For more information or to apply about this position please send an email with a short motivation, CV and minimal two references to jobs@rheumafinder.com.

! We do not accept fully remote roles and do not provide any help for VISA and work permit applications, or provide relocation costs. Application closes on Jan 27, 2026

! Don't apply if you haven't worked in a clear DevOps role before.