DevOps Architect

**_This is us_**

At Avenga, we believe that human creativity empowers technology that matters. Operating globally, our 6000+ specialists provide a full spectrum of services, including business and tech advisory, enterprise solutions, CX, UX and Ul design, managed services, product development, and software development.

**_This is the job_**

We are actively seeking a professional to strengthen our team, working for a major European institution, located in Brussels, Belgium.

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This is you_**
- 15 years experience on large, enterprise-level multi-user Information Systems
- 15 years experience in deployment and release management
- 10+ years experience in DevOps container and/or serverless orchestration tools
- 10+ years experience in Agile methodology
- 10+ years experience with: JIRA, Git, Jenkins
- 10+ years experience with Confluence
- 5+ years experience in multi-cloud architecture
- 5+ years experience with Docker, Kubernetes
- 5+ years experience with SonarQube
- 5+ years experience with the monitoring tool Nagios
- 5+ years experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, OVH)
- 5+ years experience with blockchain based infrastructure
- Experience with large, enterprise-level multi-user Information Systems
- Good knowledge of establishing and managing deployment pipeline and release management
- Good knowledge of DevOps container or serverless /orchestration tools
- Good knowledge of cloud security architecture and security requirements
- Good knowledge of continuous delivery and Application Lifecycle Management tools (JIRA, Git, Bamboo, Nexus, etc.)
- Good knowledge of Monitoring tools (Dynatrace, Prometheus etc.)
- Rapid self-starting capabilities and experience with team working
- The capability of integrating in an international/multicultural environment
- At least one of the following certifications: Certified DevSecOps Professional (CDP), AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, Microsoft DevOps Engineer Expert, or Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer.
- The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) certification.

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This is your role_**
- Meet the DPP stakeholders to collect the infrastructure requirements (functional and non-functional)
- Create designs and blueprints of cloud architecture, prioritising the components that will bring the most benefits for the Digital Product Passport project
- Advise on the most appropriate cloud services, ranking them and emphasizing advantages and disadvantages of each
- Design and develop architecture components and building blocks using cloud components
- Proof of Concept, prototyping of infrastructure solutions, including the use of cloud-native services and features
- Participate in coordination and project meetings
- Provide expert technical assistance on the managed cloud service providers and their services: technical guidance, troubleshooting, performance optimisation, monitoring
- Ensure that the cloud architecture comply with security best practices, including the ones of the Commission
- Bring specific expertise in many cloud services providers and the full range of services they deliver, with strong experience in designing, deploying, and maintaining projects in those environments
- Ensure that the cloud architecture is implemented at the expected levels of security, performance, reliability and availability
- Investigate and solve complex infrastructure cloud related issues
- Ensure that the documentation is always up to date
- Define a deployment strategy, make sure that the changes are properly tested before deployment and that the roll-outs happen without negative impacts
- Validate the release plans and communication making sure that stakeholders are aware of the changes to come, what is expected of them, and how the changes impact them
- Ensure a continuous improvement approach, implementing feedback loops to iterate