Devops Engineer

Job Title - Devops / Automation Engineer

Job Type - Contract / B2B

Location - Fully Remote / very occasional trips to Belgium

Pay Rate - €600 per day

Languages - French

EU NATIONALS ONLY - MUST BE FRENCH SPEAKING

DevOps Engineer

1. Description of function :

• Target 1 : DevOps factory (based on Gitlab suite, including ci/cd)

Ø Setup and maintain tooling of dev factory

Ø Setup and maintain CI/CD pipelines (together with architect and lead developer)

Ø Setup & maintain dev environment

• Target 2 : monitoring & operation

Ø Setup and maintain monitoring solution & dashboards

Ø Give guidance to the other developers on what/how to log (not too much, not to little) and check with them how to check health of the microservices

Ø Automate repetitive operation tasks

Ø Execute operations tasks on dev & test environments

• Target 3 : save efforts

Ø in operations, by automate all aspects from Application (and Platform) Management that can be automated. Without proper automation, the efforts for application and platform maintenance would be bigger than estimated. Example of automations:

Ø Release new version of software to an environment by a press of a button (by the customer)

Ø Automated rollback of a release to the previous version in case of unexpected issues in Prod not detected in Test

Ø Automated backups, and restore scripts

Ø Kill/restart services that are not behaving as they should (when service does not respond to health-check and/or triggered by a pattern of events in the logs)

Ø Scripts to Clean-up / archive old data, wipe temp data

• Target 4 : SPOC for SPW operations

2. Skills and experience

• Knowledge of Java 11+ and maven 3

• Knowledge of git

• Using containers (docker) with microservices Kubernetes

• Kubernetes service

• Prometheus

• Gitlab

• Maven

• Jira

3. Languages : Must be fluent in French. Fully remote is possible

Education:

Bachelor or University degree in IT or equivalent through relevant experience