DevOps Engineer – Platform Engineering
DevOps Engineer – Platform Engineering
- Job Type: Contract
- Location: Belgium
Salary OR Rate:
€550
Job description:
We are seeking a Mid–Senior DevOps Engineer to design, automate, and maintain a secure, scalable, and observable platform ecosystem built on OpenShift. You will manage CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and platform reliability for a cloud-native environment supporting mission-critical workloads.
Requirements:
Required Skills & Experience
- 4–8 years in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles.
- Hands-on experience with OpenShift/Kubernetes (deployment, scaling, monitoring, troubleshooting).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Tekton).
- Strong IaC skills (Terraform, Ansible, Helm).
- Familiarity with databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MinIO, Elasticsearch) and messaging systems (Solace, Kafka).
- Knowledge of monitoring/observability tools (ELK, Prometheus, Grafana).
- Scripting skills in Bash, Python, or Go.
- Linux system administration and networking fundamentals.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) integrated with OpenShift.
- Understanding of microservices, service mesh (e.g., Istio), and GitOps (ArgoCD).
- Exposure to performance testing, load balancing, and capacity planning.
- Kubernetes, OpenShift, or HashiCorp Vault certifications.
Responsibilities:
- Automate provisioning, configuration, and deployment using Terraform, Ansible, or Helm.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Tekton) for applications and services.
- Ensure reliable, zero-downtime deployments and scalable platform operations.
- Implement security practices including Vault integration, RBAC, SAST/DAST scanning, and patch management.
- Set up monitoring, alerting, and dashboards for proactive performance management.
- Collaborate with development teams to support CI/CD, testing, and environment readiness.
- Troubleshoot issues across infrastructure, networking, CI/CD, and application layers.
- Contribute to architecture discussions, documentation, and best practices for automation, observability, and reliability.