Requirement: Kubernetes-DevOps Engineer
Location: Braine-l'Alleud, BELGIUM
Full Time On-Site: Yes
Time On-Site: 100%
Not to Exceed Rate: 95 EUR
Total Scope of the request (hours): 350
Required Start Date: 16 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:
Under the direction of Service Delivery Manager of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), the DevOps Engineer will focus on streamlining application delivery and bridging the gap between development and infrastructure:
- Administer container orchestration platforms using SUSE Rancher Prime and collaborate directly with development teams to seamlessly onboard applications into production environments.
- Design, build, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to fully automate application testing, integration, and delivery.
- Provision and manage hybrid infrastructure across on-premises environments and the cloud utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Establish and maintain comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure platform reliability and performance.
- Embed security best practices and compliance controls directly into the deployment pipelines and infrastructure configurations.
- Troubleshoot complex integration and deployment issues, acting as a technical bridge across agile delivery teams.
Skills, Knowledge & Experience:
- The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
- At least 5 years of hands-on experience in DevOps or automated platform management, including:
- Solid experience deploying and administering container workloads and orchestration platforms, including Kubernetes, Rancher, RKE2 and Docker.
- Strong proficiency in CI/CD, GitOps, pipeline automation, and version control using enterprise tools like GitLab, ArgoCD or Jenkins.
- Proven expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles, provisioning hybrid resources with Terraform, and automating system configurations with Ansible.
- Practical knowledge of managing hybrid infrastructure across enterprise virtualization environments (VMware) and major cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
- Proficiency in scripting languages like Bash or Python for automating routine operational tasks and tool integrations.
- Experience deploying and utilizing observability and industry- standard monitoring stacks like Prometheus, Grafana and ELK.
- Excellent analytical problem-solving capabilities with a strong track record of delivering cross-functional work in fast-moving Agile environments.
