Senior DevOps Engineer - Brussels (On site) - Eurocontrol
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Summary
Senior DevOps engineer on-site in Brussels for EUROCONTROL (via TheWhiteam): implements and customizes CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git, Maven/Gradle), automates Docker/Helm builds and OpenShift deployments, integrates security scanning and monitoring (ELK, Prometheus, Grafana), and bridges the product and central DevOps teams. Day-rate contract; 14+ yrs experience, English C1.
Overview
Senior DevOps Engineer at Brussels (On site) for EUROCONTROL
Job role: Senior DevOps Engineer
Location: Brussels (On site)
Languages required: English (C1)
Minimum experience required: 14 years
Rate: 455-475€/day
Responsibilities
- CI/CD Pipeline Implementation & Customization
- Adopt and implement the standard CI/CD pipelines (defined by the central DevOps team) using Jenkins, Git (BitBucket), and Maven/Gradle for Java (Quarkus/Spring), frontend (React/TypeScript), and test automation workflows.
- Customize pipelines to fit eEAD/iNM project requirements, ensuring compliance with central DevOps policies.
- Integrate Nexus Repository Manager for artifact storage
- Automate container builds using Docker and Helm Charts
- Deploy and scale containerized applications in OpenShift
- Work with the central DevOps team to report gaps, suggest improvements, and align on best practices.
- Security & Compliance (DevSecOps)
- Enforce security standards defined by the central DevOps team, integrating SAST/DAST scanning (Veracode, Trivy, Syft).
- Manage secrets and credentials in HashiCorp Vault, following enterprise security policies.
- Monitoring, Logging & Observability
- Implement centralized logging (ELK) and metrics (Prometheus, Grafana) as per enterprise standards.
- Collaboration with Central DevOps & Digital Product Team
- Act as the bridge between the Digital Product team and the central DevOps team, ensuring smooth adoption of standards.
- Work with developers and automation testers to optimize build, test, and deployment workflows.
- Performance Optimization & Troubleshooting
- Identify and resolve project-specific bottlenecks in build, test, and deployment processes.
- Optimize OpenShift resource usage for cost efficiency and performance.
- Implement auto-scaling and self-healing for high availability.
Specific Expertise
- CI/CD & Build Tools – Jenkins, Git (BitBucket), Maven, Nexus.
- Containerization & Orchestration – Docker, Podman, Helm, OpenShift (OKD/OCP).
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) – Terraform, Ansible
- Security & Compliance – HashiCorp Vault, Veracode, Trivy, Syft
- Monitoring & Observability – ELK, Prometheus, Grafana.
- Databases & Messaging – PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Kafka (Confluent), Solace PubSub+.
- Scripting & Automation – Python, Bash
- Collaboration Tools – JIRA, SharePoint, Confluence, MS Teams.
- Agile & Hybrid DevOps Model – Experience working in federated/centralized DevOps environments.
- Problem-Solving & Communication – Ability to bridge gaps between teams and drive project specific optimizations
Location
- Brussels (On site)
Language
- English (C1) MANDATORY
Skills
- Agile
- Ansible
- Automation
- Bash
- Bitbucket
- CI/CD
- Confluence
- Containerization
- DAST
- DevOps
- DevSecOps
- Docker
- ELK
- Git
- Gradle
- Grafana
- Helm
- Infrastructure as Code
- Java
- Jenkins
- Jira
- Kafka
- Maven
- MongoDB
- Observability
- OpenShift
- Podman
- PostgreSQL
- Prometheus
- Python
- Quarkus
- React
- SAST
- SharePoint
- Spring
- Terraform
- Test Automation
- TypeScript
- Vault