Cloud Platform engineer

Freelance Cloud platform engineer-Namur, Hybrid

Long-term until end 2027

We are looking for a Cloud Platform Engineer who will be collaborate with other engineers to develop, implement and manage cloud solutions within our company.

The Cloud Platform Engineer will be responsible for building and maintaining the automated infrastructure for our Azure Cloud and our Kubernetes Platform. This includes provisioning, configuration, and monitoring our cloud resources using Terraform. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in DevOps practices such as CI/CD, automation, IaC, Data (Databricks/DataFactory) and Kubernetes.

Tasks:

• Developing, Testing, Debugging, and Troubleshooting of Containerized Infrastructure.
• Build CI/CD pipeline configurations to orchestrate provisioning and deployment of both large and small-scale systems.
• Ensure solutions are well-engineered, maintainable, and delivered on schedule.
• Work with business and engineering teams to deploy new infrastructure in our Azure Platform.
• Monitor the availability, latency, and overall system health.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in development, test, and production environments.
• Communicate status and risks to the product and Management teams.
• Help automate and streamline operations and processes.

Requirements:

Technical skills

• Significant experience writing Hashicorp Terraform configurations and modules. Good Knowledge in OpenTofu/Biceps in a plus.
• Solid experience in deploying/securing distributed apps with containers (Docker) & orchestration (Azure Kubernetes). Solid experience in ArgoCD, Helm, etc.
• Experience in DevOps and GitOps models with infra-as-code, config-as-code, policy-as-code, etc.
• Proficient in translating designs into fully developed Terraform code.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure Cloud (certification is a plus).
• Solid understanding of cloud networking concepts, subnets, routing, load balancing, firewalls, and cloud security.
• Experience in enterprise-scale environments, building highly available IaaS and PaaS solutions
• Understanding of landing zones, cloud-native security, monitoring and logging tools, and Well-Architected Framework principals.
• Experience with containers related technologies and CI/CD tools - DevOps, pipelines, container repos, etc.
• Experience in programming and infra-automation tools - Terraform, Ansible, etc.
• A deep understanding of the Data Platform technologies and ability to work with services like ADF, Databricks, …
• Experience in Cloud logging, monitoring, and observability tools (ex: Grafana, Prometheus, …)
• Proficient in scripting languages (i.e. Bash, Powershell, CLI, Python).

Non-technical skills

• Participate in shift/on-call rotations as per operational policy when required (24/7)
• Strong analytical, problem solving and organizational skills
• Evangelist about new technologies
• A continuous learner and a critical thinker
• must have planning and organizational skills
• must be able to work independently
• must be customer and business minded
• must have hands-on mentality
• able to write and validate processes and documentation
• able to present/discuss (to technical audience) the proposed solutions
• able to deliver pragmatic approaches and keeping solutions as simple as possible
• A team player with Excellent communication skills
• language: English (French, Dutch and/or German is a plus)

Additional information:

• Location: Primary location is Namur and Brussels occasionally, with the option to work from home up to three days a week.
• Telework: A minimum onsite presence of 2 days per week in Namur is required for this service request.
• STANDBY: After the training period, the consultant can be assigned to standby duties as agreed in advance with the manager. While on standby, the consultant is not actively working but must remain reachable and ready to respond if needed. The consultant may stay at home or elsewhere, provided they can respond promptly and intervene using their company laptop. If necessary, the consultant will return to the site during the standby period to perform the intervention.
• The consultant must be available and able to act immediately if contacted.
• Standby periods will be scheduled and agreed upon beforehand