Job Title: DevOps Engineer
Duration: ASAP-End of 2026 with possible extensions
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Languages: English
Job Description - Roles and Responsibilities
As a DevOps Engineer you will:
- Investigate and resolve complex application issues, developing permanent fixes, workarounds, or temporary patches to restore service quickly.
- Maintain and optimize application performance, data integrity, and security across production and pre-production environments using proper data sanitization and anonymization practices.
- Manage and execute seamless application releases and infrastructure changes using automated deployment tools to support strict change management and governance standards.
- Provision and adapt hybrid, cloud, and virtualized infrastructure components to continuously meet evolving operational and service needs.
- Automate repetitive tasks and system provisioning by writing scripts and leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and orchestration platforms.
- Containerize and orchestrate applications to standardize delivery pipelines, improve system scalability, and streamline rollback procedures.
- Implement observability solutions and real-time monitoring tools to track system health, ensure cybersecurity policy compliance, and enable rapid incident response.
- Design, test, and document high-availability disaster recovery plans, operational runbooks, and incident response playbooks to minimize RTO and RPO.
Qualifications:
What would make you a fit for the role:
- A relevant Bachelor's degree and minimum 5 years of experience.
- Good knowledge of the application and infrastructure stack being supported, including web servers, application logic, and scripting for automation (e.g., Bash, PowerShell, Python).
- Knowledge of Java (JEE), PHP, .Net or other technologies and/or frameworks required to perform the tasks.
- Knowledge of relational database management systems (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle) for basic querying, performance monitoring, and supporting developers.
- Experience in component-based and service-oriented applications development or configuration.
- Understanding modelling languages or tools (e.g. UML).
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) for deploying and managing applications.
- Experience with monitoring and observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Dynatrace) and experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, Bamboo, GitLab CI) for operational deployments.
- Fluency with English language (C1+)