Requirement: Kubernetes Platform Operations and Maintenance Expert
Location: Brussels, BELGIUM
Full Time On-Site: Yes
Time On-Site: 100%
Not to Exceed: 72 EUR
Total Scope of the request (hours): 305
Required Start Date: 9 November 2026
End Contract Date: 31 December 2026
Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET
Please do NOT apply for any NATO contract positions unless you meet ALL the following criteria:
- Current National or NATO SECRET clearance
- Nationality of one of the NATO member countries
- Current work visa for the specific location if applying for an in-country position
Duties & Role:
The Kubernetes Platform Operations and Maintenance Expert will report to the Head of Processing and Storage Section.
- Deliver monthly artifacts; maintain cluster operations; perform upgrades and patching; maintain documentation; provide knowledge transfer; ensure compliance with defined performance SLA and internal procedures.
- Participate in weekly status update meetings, activity planning and other meetings as instructed, physically in the office, or in person via electronic means using Conference Call capabilities, according to the Team Leaders instructions.
- Tooling stack (inside the cluster): The Kubernetes Platform Operations and Maintenance Expert operate and maintain the following Kubernetes native tooling: Prometheus & Grafana; Logging stack; NGINX or ingress; Cilium CNI; Backup tooling; On prem registry (e.g. Harbor/SUSE); ArgoCD GitOps; Metrics server; Cert manager; Zabbix integration hooks.
Underlying VMs, storage, and network infrastructure (NCIA responsibility); disaster Recovery tests (NCIA responsibility; Service Contractor provides performance artifacts); application development or debugging; any activity outside the Kubernetes clusters.
Requirements
Skills, Knowledge & Experience:
- The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
- University Degree + 3 years relevant experience, or equivalent.
- 3+ years hands on Kubernetes operations experience.
- Experience with SUSE RKE2 Kubernetes distributions.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, repositories, ingress, CNI, and backup tooling.
