Senior Cloud/Devops Architect - Hybrid

We currently have a vacancy for an Senior Cloud/Devops Architect fluent in English, to offer his/her services as an expert who will be based in Brussels, Belgium. The work will be carried out either in the companys premises or on site at customer premises. In the context of the first assignment, the successful candidate will be integrated in the Development team of the company that will closely cooperate with a major clients IT team on site.

Your tasks:

• Meet the stakeholders to collect the infrastructure requirements (functional and non-functional);
• Create designs and blueprints of cloud architecture, prioritising the components that will bring the most benefits for the project;
• Advise on the most appropriate cloud services, ranking them and emphasizing advantages and disadvantages of each;
• Proof of Concept, prototyping of infrastructure solutions, including the use of cloud-native services and features;
• Provide expert technical assistance with the managed cloud service providers and their services: technical guidance, troubleshooting, performance optimisation, monitoring;
• Bring specific expertise in many cloud services providers and the full range of services they deliver, with strong experience in designing, deploying, and maintaining projects in those environments;
• Ensure that the cloud architecture is implemented at the expected levels of security, performance, reliability and availability;
• Define a deployment strategy, make sure that the changes are properly tested before deployment and that the roll-outs happen without negative impacts;
• Validate the release plans and communication, making sure that stakeholders are aware of the changes to come, what is expected of them, and how the changes impact them

Requirements

• University degree in IT or relevant discipline, combined with minimum 15 years of relevant working experience in IT;
• Minimum 15 years' experience on large, enterprise-level multi-user Information Systems;
• Minimum 15 years' experience in deployment and release management;
• Minimum 10 years' experience in DevOps container and/or serverless orchestration tools;
• Minimum 10 years' experience in Agile methodology;
• Minimum 10 years' experience with JIRA;
• Minimum 10 years' experience with Git;
• Minimum 10 years' experience with Jenkins;
• Minimum 10 years' experience with Confluence;
• Minimum 5 years' experience in multi-cloud architecture;
• Minimum 5 years' experience with Docker;
• Minimum 5 years' experience with Kubernetes;
• Minimum 5 years' experience with SonarQube;
• Minimum 5 years' experience with the monitoring tool Nagios;
• Minimum 5 years' experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, OVH);
• Minimum 5 years' experience with blockchain-based infrastructure;
• Experience with designing a multi-cloud, active-active architecture capable of hosting a live application across multiple cloud providers;
• Good knowledge of conducting DevSecOps in an agile work environment;
• Good knowledge of cloud security architecture and security requirements;
• Good knowledge of continuous delivery and Application Lifecycle Management tools (JIRA, Git, Bamboo, Nexus, etc.);
• Good knowledge of Monitoring tools (Dynatrace, Prometheus, etc.);
• The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) certification is required;
• Any one of the following certificates is required: DevOps certifications: Certified DevSecOps Professional (CDP), AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional, Microsoft DevOps Engineer Expert, or Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer;
• Excellent command of the English language.

Benefits

If you are seeking a career in an exciting, dynamic and multicultural international environment with exciting opportunities that will boost your career, please send us your detailed CV in English.

We offer a competitive remuneration (either on contract basis or remuneration with full benefits package), based on qualifications and experience. All applications will be treated as confidential.