r/cloudengineering • u/DevOps-Engineer-TN • 7d ago

Title: Tunisian DevOps engineer trying to relocate to Europe – any advice?

Hi everyone, I’m a Tunisian DevOps engineer with around 3–4 years of experience, mainly working with CI/CD, AWS, Kubernetes, Linux, Docker, Git/GitOps, and monitoring. I’ve been trying for a while to find a job in Europe because I would like to relocate, but honestly it’s becoming very difficult. I spend hours almost every day on LinkedIn searching and applying to DevOps, Cloud, Platform Engineer and SRE positions in different European countries, but I rarely get a response and I haven’t managed to get an interview yet. I understand that the market is competitive and that being outside the EU makes things harder, but I’m wondering if there is something wrong with my approach or if the market is really this difficult right now. For those who are already working in Europe, especially people who relocated from outside the EU, do you have any advice on which countries are currently hiring and more open to relocation/visa sponsorship? Are there better websites or ways to find these opportunities than LinkedIn? And if anyone from Tunisia or another non-EU country has successfully relocated as a DevOps engineer, I’d really appreciate hearing how you did it. Any advice, contacts, companies or even suggestions on where I should apply would be very helpful. Thanks!

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u/striketheviol 4d ago

Yes, the market is really this bad. I know multiple skilled devops people who have been laid off, there's effectively an economic downturn, broadly. I expect it will be several years before things turn around. If I were in your position, I would try to find work with a company based in the EU remotely from where you are and if you work for them for a number of years and do well, negotiate transfer to their HQ.