Middleware (Senior) Specialist

Company Information:
Based in Brussels, Belgium, and staffed by 2.700 people and more than 60 nationalities, Toyota Motor Europe (TME) handles the wholesale marketing of Toyota and Lexus vehicles, parts & accessories, and manages Toyota’s European R&D, manufacturing and engineering operations.

For Toyota, Quality is a way of life. Nothing is so good that it cannot be made better, that is why we strive for continuous improvement in everything we do. This basic principle for us is called: “KAIZEN” and is what guides us in our pursuit of best Quality and the delivery of unparalleled customer’s satisfaction.

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**We offer** a dynamic multicultural work environment and the opportunity to be part of a highly motivated team where collaboration, creativity, courage, and curiosity play an important role. You will be working on exciting projects and benefit from a thorough on the job development, coaching and training.

Your commitment will be rewarded with a comprehensive renumeration package, including a bonus scheme and interesting extra-legal benefits. We provide flexibility to take care of both your career and your personal life by providing hybrid work environment with structural possibility to both work from home & collaborate in the office. You can also take your work abroad for up to 20 days/year.

At Toyota Motor Europe, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all. All of our recruitment decisions are based on the individual and their qualifications along with the job requirements. The selection process is without regard to nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, ethnicity, disability or other personal characteristics. We do not tolerate harassment or discrimination as our individual experiences and overall diversity is our key strength. Together we have the power to make a positive change and go beyond the ordinary.

If you need any specific consideration for the interview process due to disability or any other reason, please let the recruiter know.

Your Profile:

- You are fluent in English (TME business language).

You like teamwork and have a positive mindset towards other colleagues.

You are passionate about technology.

You have good knowledge in some of the mentioned technologies or relevant ones

You are used to work in an AGILE framework.

You have a DevOps mindset.

**You have a Toyota DNA, this means you**:

- **C**ourage: you are ready to let go of the easy path to reach challenging targets
- ** C**ollaboration: you are a team player, respectful and inclusive in your style and you take a customer-oriented approach
- ** C**reativity: your passion drives you to explore innovative ideas and challenge the impossible
- ** C**uriosity: you combine imagination and fact-based observation
- ** C**oaching: you share knowledge and feedback with your colleagues and celebrate each other’s success

Your team and your responsibilities:
Toyota Information Technology and Digital (IT&D) implements IT Systems to support the whole vehicle and

parts supply chains, from design to after sales services, working with a Pan-European team with members in

TME and in local Marketing and Manufacturing companies.

Within IT&D, the middleware team handles different technologies like K8S, NGINX+, Kong API GW, Elastic

Search, CloudAMQP, Aiven Kafka,on cloud (AWS / Azure) and on-premise.

**Currently we are working on**:
Implementation of a k8s (Red Hat OpenShift) solution in our EMC’s (European Manufacturing

Company)

IaC/GitOps

Transitioning from bamboo to GitHub

Further standardisation and kaizen activities.

**Your main responsibilities will be**:
Technical expertise on different middleware technologies (see above).

Team Lead of middleware team which consists of project and support people.

Ensure standards are being followed and work out new ones together with enterprise architecture.

Improve (kaizen) quality of our environments.

Automation (technologies : bash, python, cloudformation, terraform,)

Provide guidance to management in current and future projects.