Senior Kubernetes Engineer

The world is more connected than ever before and the pace of change is bewildering. We deliver the best combination of technology and services to enable our clients to fulfil the diverse needs of their customers. By fostering a deeply and personal relationship with our clients, we want to improve the lives of people and organizations.

Axians is the VINCI Energies brand dedicated to ICT and Digital Transformation. We’re present across 38 countries, with more than 17 000 employees and an annual revenue of more than 3.8 billion euros, in 2025.

The best of ICT with a human touch.

Why Join Axians European Institutions' Team?

Multicultural Environment 🌍: You will work alongside professionals from all over the world, fostering a diverse and enriching workplace.

Diverse Projects 📝: Engage in impactful projects with cutting-edge technological advancements facilitated by European Institutions.

Skill Development 🚀: Work in a knowledge-driven environment where you'll continually develop both technical and professional skills through exposure to complex projects.

Long-term Opportunities 🏆: Our partnerships with European Institutions offer stable, long-term roles where you can make a real difference on a European scale.

Contributing to European Initiatives 🏛️: Make a meaningful impact on regional and global challenges.

We are seeking a Senior Kubernetes Engineer to join our team in Brussels.

Responsibilities:

• Container Platform & Kubernetes Administration: Deploy, manage, upgrade, and optimize enterprise container platforms such as Rancher, VMware Tanzu, and OpenShift, while ensuring the stability and performance of Kubernetes clusters running in on-premises environments.
• Infrastructure Automation & IaC: Leverage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using tools such as Ansible and Helm to automate infrastructure provisioning, cluster operations, application deployments, and platform scalability.
• Observability & Platform Reliability: Design, implement, and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions using technologies like Prometheus and Grafana, ensuring platform resilience, availability, and operational excellence.
• Security & Governance: Enforce security best practices through RBAC (Role-Based Access Control), Network Policies, secrets management, and Kubernetes Pod Security Standards to maintain a secure and compliant container ecosystem.
• Incident Management & Troubleshooting: Diagnose and resolve platform and cluster-related issues, including node failures, infrastructure incidents, and containerized application performance bottlenecks, minimizing service disruptions.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with DevOps, development, and infrastructure teams to integrate CI/CD pipelines, enhance deployment processes, and continuously improve container platform performance and efficiency.

Requirements:

• Kubernetes Expertise: In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes components and architecture, including the control plane, kubelet, pods, operators, and container platform fundamentals, as well as key integrations such as CNI and CSI plugins.
• Hands-On Production Experience: Proven experience deploying, administering, and supporting enterprise container platforms such as Rancher, VMware Tanzu, and OpenShift in production environments, including the lifecycle management of Kubernetes clusters.
• Kubernetes Application Lifecycle Management: Strong understanding of how containerized applications are deployed, scaled, updated, and operated within Kubernetes environments, with the ability to evaluate the benefits and limitations of the platform.
• Automation & Scripting Skills: Proficient in developing and maintaining automation scripts using Ansible, Python, and Bash, with the ability to create, customize, and troubleshoot Kubernetes manifests and Helm charts.
• DevOps & Container Ecosystem Tools: Practical experience working with modern DevOps and cloud-native tools, including Git, Argo CD, Harbor, JFrog, Ansible, and Sysdig, to support application delivery, automation, and platform operations.

Other requirements:

• EU Citizenship.
• Resident or available to relocate to Belgium.

Ready to embark on an exciting journey with us?

Apply now to join a vibrant team contributing to technological advancements in European Institutions. Please apply here or send your application to [email protected] with the subject SKE.PM.