Job Title: DevOps Engineer – Platform Engineering
Self Employed position
Ideal start date: March 2026
Hybrid Brussels
About the Role
We are looking for a
DevOps Engineer
to design, implement, and manage deployment of a highly scalable, secure, and observable platform ecosystem built on
OpenShift
and integrated with
Vault, multiple databases, messaging middleware, and observability tools
.
This platform supports mission-critical workloads and services leveraging
OpenShift, HashiCorp Vault, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MinIO, Elasticsearch, ELK Stack, Nginx, Squid, Solace, and Confluent (Kafka)
.
You’ll play a key role in automating infrastructure, managing CI/CD pipelines, ensuring system reliability, and enabling continuous delivery for development teams.
Key Responsibilities
Automate provisioning, configuration, and deployment of infrastructure and applications using
Ansible
,
Terraform
, or
Helm
.
Implement and maintain
CI/CD pipelines
(Jenkins) for application builds, tests, and deployments.
Ensure zero-downtime deployments, scalability, and resilience through automation.
Contribute to the standardization and automation of release processes, including branching and tagging strategies.
Collaborate with Digital Product teams to gather feedback, suggest improvements, and align on best practices.
Enforce security standards defined by integrating SAST/DAST scanning tools (SonarQube,Veracode, Trivy, Syft).
Maintain base UBI images and ensure regular application of security patches.
Set up alerting and dashboards for proactive detection and resolution of performance issues.
Security \& Compliance
Integrate
Vault
with OpenShift for secrets and credential management.
Enforce least privilege and role-based access control (RBAC) across the platform.
Support vulnerability scanning, patching, and compliance automation.
Performance, Reliability \& Troubleshooting
Analyze platform performance and implement optimization strategies for scaling.
Troubleshoot issues across networking, infrastructure, CI/CD, and application layers.
Conduct incident response and post-mortem analysis for platform outages.
Collaboration \& Continuous Improvement
Work closely with developers, tester to support CI/CD automation, testing, and environment readiness.
Mentor and contribute to best practices documentation.
Participate in architecture discussions to ensure scalability, observability, and reliability.
Required Skills \& Experience
4–8 years
of experience as a
DevOps Engineer
,
SRE
, or
Platform Engineer
.
Hands-on experience with
OpenShift (Kubernetes)
— deployments, scaling, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
Experience with
CI/CD pipelines
(Jenkins, GitLab CI, Tekton) and related automation.
Strong experience with
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
using
Terraform
,
Ansible
, or
Helm
.
Experience managing
databases
(PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MinIO, Elasticsearch).
Familiarity with
Solace
,
Confluent Kafka
, or other message brokers.
Experience in
monitoring/observability tools
(ELK Stack, Prometheus, Grafana).
Proficiency in
Bash
,
Python
, or
Go
for scripting and automation.
Strong understanding of
Linux system administration
and
networking fundamentals
.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with
cloud platforms
(Azure, AWS) integrated with OpenShift.
Understanding of
microservices architectures
and
service mesh
(e.g., Istio).
Exposure to
performance testing
,
load balancing
, and
capacity planning
.
Experience with
GitOps
frameworks (
ArgoCD
).
Knowledge of
security best practices
for cloud-native platforms.
Certification(s) in
Kubernetes
,
OpenShift
, or
HashiCorp Vault
preferred.
Soft Skills \& Attributes
Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Passion for automation, continuous improvement, and reliability.
Ability to work in agile, fast-paced, cross-functional teams.
Ownership-driven and proactive in troubleshooting and optimization.
Tech Stack You’ll Work With
Core Platform:
OpenShift (Kubernetes), HashiCorp Vault
Databases:
PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MinIO, Elasticsearch
Messaging:
Solace, Confluent (Kafka)
Networking:
Nginx, Squid
Observability:
ELK Stack, Prometheus, Grafana
Automation Tools:
Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Tekton
CI/CD:
Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD
Languages:
Bash, Python, YAML, Go