Senior Devops Engineer, Level 1 (near-site, Brussels) - MAIA

Position: Devops Engineer.
Location: Near-site (Brussels).
Rate: 470€/day.
Start date: To be confirmed (ASAP).
Language: Services will be provided in English. Consultants must have at least a C1 level, in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).

Minimum post-secundary education required: at least 3 years of university studies attested by a diploma.

Minimum professional experience required: a minimum of 4 years of post-academic professional experience in a similar position.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain robust DevOps pipelines to support efficient Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) processes across the software development lifecycle.

• Automate application deployment, infrastructure provisioning, and operational workflows to ensure reliable, repeatable, and scalable software releases.

• Deploy, configure, and maintain services and applications, ensuring they are optimized for production environments, availability, performance, and reliability.

• Manage cloud and on-premises infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices, ensuring scalability, resilience, and efficient resource utilization.

• Implement, configure, and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to ensure the continuous health, availability, and performance of applications and infrastructure.

• Monitor production environments, investigate incidents, and coordinate timely resolution of operational issues while contributing to continuous service improvement.

• Optimize application and infrastructure performance through capacity planning, performance tuning, and proactive system enhancements.

• Integrate security best practices throughout the DevOps lifecycle by implementing secure CI/CD pipelines, vulnerability scanning, secrets management, and configuration hardening.

• Develop and maintain Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) and self-service capabilities to improve developer productivity and operational efficiency.

• Plan, coordinate, and execute software stack upgrades, infrastructure migrations, and platform modernization initiatives while minimizing service disruption.

• Collaborate closely with software development teams, architects, system administrators, security specialists, and business stakeholders to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable technology solutions.

Specific expertise:

• Proven experience designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using modern DevOps methodologies and best practices.

• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, particularly Docker and Kubernetes.

• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and configuration management solutions including Ansible.

• Experience implementing secure secrets management solutions, particularly HashiCorp Vault.

• Solid administration experience with Linux-based environments.

• Experience with DevOps lifecycle and source code management platforms, including GitLab, GitHub, and Atlassian tools.

• Strong knowledge of static application security testing (SAST) and code quality tools such as SonarQube, Fortify, Snyk, or equivalent.

• Experience managing artifact repositories using tools such as Nexus or equivalent repository management platforms.

• Hands-on experience with monitoring, observability, and logging solutions, including Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent technologies.

• Experience developing and maintaining Internal Developer Platforms using solutions such as Backstage, Humanitec, or similar frameworks.

• Proficiency in scripting and automation using languages such as Python, Bash, PowerShell, YAML, Ruby, or Perl.

• Experience working with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, OVH, or equivalent cloud environments.

• Strong understanding of system architecture, infrastructure design principles, high availability, scalability, and performance optimization.

• Experience working in Agile and DevOps environments, collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams to deliver enterprise-scale solutions.

• Experience working for an international organisation or within European Union institutions would be considered an advantage.