For a customer we are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer.

Start date: As soon as possible
Duration: Long term
Location: Brussels, 3 days a week on location

Responsibilities:

 Design, implement and manage changes to the application
platforms (Windows Server – AKS)
 Maintain the software components that form the application
platforms and document support procedures.
 Support developers and application architects during the
design of their solutions and support their implementation
until the production environment.
 Analyse and troubleshoot problems and technical errors with
the implemented solutions.
 Support and coach the other team members on the
platform components
 Propose improvements to our application platforms
 Participate in an on duty (24/7) support role on a 1 week / 4
weeks schedule (on request)

General Skills:

 At least be able to follow passively a conversation in both of our
national languages Dutch & French (this is a must) and fluent in
English.
 Passionate about cloud native technologies
 Knowledge of traditional IT and software development
 Analytical reasoning skills for problem diagnostics
 Strong communication skills.
 Ability to work in a regulated environment

Technical Skills:

 Have a strong (>4 years) background in the management of
cloud native workloads in a corporate context
 Have extensive (>4 years) experience in the management of
Kubernetes clusters and associated software components
(e.g. Istio, Keda, Harbor etc.)
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 Have professional experience with Infrastructure as Code
(IaC) (Ansible, Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Azure
DevOps).
 Have a vast experience (>4 years) in the management of
public cloud environments (e.g. Azure, Amazon AWS)
 Hands-on scripting skills (e.g. Powershell, Azure CLI)

We are running two application platforms to host in-house
developed applications. Our primary on-prem platform is based on
Windows Application Servers. A second application platform has
been built based around AKS to host applications that are built as
container images.
Hereunder we list the technologies used in our current application
platforms. You don’t need to master all these technologies, but you
should have some affinity with most of them (presented in order of
importance):
1. Windows Server
2. Powershell (DSC)
3. Hashicorp Consul
4. AKS (Kubernetes)
5. Ansible / Ansible Automation
6. ArgoCD
7. Helm
8. Grafana (Alloy, Mimir, Loki, Tempo)
9. Citrix ADC
10. RabbitMQ
11. Azure DevOps Pipelines
12. Azure ServiceBus
13. Chocolatey
14. Inedo Proget