About the mission
We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our Environmental Intelligence unit, which develops innovative earth observation systems. The role involves supporting DevOps and project issues, managing operational infrastructure, and implementing security best practices while collaborating with IT architects and engineers.
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The Environmental Intelligence unit develops and operates innovative earth observation systems that help address the major societal and economic challenges facing our planet. Our projects are in the realm of data distribution, on-demand image processing on large and scalable platforms, and Big Data analytics to extract information from satellite and airborne (UAV, drones) data, where these datasets are growing rapidly in size (from terabytes to petabytes). Due to the growing challenges in cloud infrastructure, we want to strengthen our team with someone who can tackle complex environments to support various operational and research projects that improve the world.
Key Responsibilities;
Provide support for DevOps and project issues
Take responsibility, together with the team, for the operational infrastructure.
Resolve tickets from our internal projects with attention to configuration & infrastructure as code
Roll out and support new components in the software stack, as well as in public cloud environments
Analyze complex problems using monitoring tools, logging, and metrics; proactively propose and develop efficiency improvements
Eventually take ownership of certain components from the software stack
Internal or external escalation in case of blocking issues
Implement security best practices throughout the infrastructure
Collaborate with IT architects and engineers
Take responsibility, together with the team, for the operational infrastructure.
Skills & Experience;
Strong analytical skills are crucial as you are part of an ambitious team where business needs in IT and earth observation are constantly evolving
Master's degree in applied IT, Industrial Sciences, IT, or equivalent
Experience in Agile and/or DevOps environments
Experience in Linux native environments (CentOS, RedHat, Alma Linux)
Experience in virtualization (AWS/Azure/Docker/VMWare/OpenStack/...)
Experience with CI/CD tooling, config & automation frameworks (e.g., Terraform, Packer)
Experience in Kubernetes environments and writing Helm charts is a must
Knowledge of cybersecurity best practices for cloud environments
Experience in distributed processing (e.g., Apache Spark, Dask) is a plus
Excellent command of English
You are a true team player and easily integrate into a group
You have the ability to put things in perspective
You have a flexible personality, are proactive, service-minded, and can communicate excellently
You are self-organized
Languages;
Language requirement: Excellent command of English
Additional Info;
First sub-contract: 6 months 100% (960 hours)
The contract can only be extended if necessary for the assignment and if satisfied with the collaboration with the contractor.
The submitted hourly rates cannot be revised unless explicitly approved and at the earliest 12 months after the start date.
What you'll do
- Provide support for DevOps and project issues
- Take responsibility, together with the team, for the operational infrastructure.
- Resolve tickets from our internal projects with attention to configuration & infrastructure as code
- Roll out and support new components in the software stack, as well as in public cloud environments
- Analyze complex problems using monitoring tools, logging, and metrics; proactively propose and develop efficiency improvements
- Eventually take ownership of certain components from the software stack
- Internal or external escalation in case of blocking issues
- Implement security best practices throughout the infrastructure
- Collaborate with IT architects and engineers
What we're looking for
- Master's degree in applied IT, Industrial Sciences, IT or equivalent
- Experience in Agile and/or DevOps environments
- Experience in Linux native environments (CentOS, RedHat, Alma Linux)
- Experience in virtualization (AWS/Azure/Docker/VMWare/OpenStack/…)
- Experience with CI/CD tooling, config & automation frameworks (e.g., Terraform, Packer)
- Experience in Kubernetes environments and writing Helm charts
- Knowledge of cybersecurity best practices for cloud environments
- Excellent command of English
Skills
- Agile
- DevOps
- Linux (CentOS, RedHat, Alma Linux)
- Virtualization (AWS, Azure, Docker, VMWare, OpenStack)
- CI/CD tooling (Terraform, Packer)
- Kubernetes
- Cybersecurity best practices