DevOps Engineer

💼Job Title: DevOps Engineer

👨‍💻Job Type: Contract/Freelance

📍Location: Brussels, Belgium

Work Regime: Hybrid 2 Days Onsite in a week

🔥Keywords: Java, Kubernetes, OpenShift and Kafka

Position Overview: - DevOps Engineer with expertise in Data Platform Engineering, focusing on the Kafka ecosystem and Kubernetes/OpenShift. This position is based in Belgium, within the Observability and Analytics Cluster under the Tooling Services organization. The candidate will play a pivotal role in scaling and enhancing the Observability Platform, which integrates Kafka ecosystem components and containerized infrastructure.

The role involves collaborating with global teams, driving operational excellence, and improving the resiliency, reliability, stability, and security of the platform. The successful candidate will demonstrate a strong background in stream processing and container orchestration.

What you will be doing

Mentor and guide less senior engineers by sharing knowledge and promoting best practices to support team success.

Manage and enhance Kafka ecosystem components, including KStream, KConnect, and KSQLDB, ensuring robust stream processing in production environments.

Implement and optimize data pipelines to handle large-scale telemetry and observability data ingestion using Kafka and the ELK stack.

Oversee deployments in Kubernetes and OpenShift, ensuring scalability, high availability, and performance for Kafka and other platform workloads.

Apply DevOps and SRE principles to improve platform reliability, focusing on automation, self-service capabilities, and infrastructure optimization.

Automate deployment and infrastructure management through tools like Ansible for IaC and CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and ArgoCD.

Troubleshoot complex issues in distributed systems, particularly in environments involving Kafka, Kubernetes, and large-scale data platforms.

What you will Have:-

Extensive experience with the Kafka ecosystem, including Kafka Streams, KSQLDB, and Kafka Connect.

Strong expertise in managing and deploying workloads on Kubernetes and OpenShift, including experience with Docker or Podman containerization.

Proven ability to operate and maintain platforms built on the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana).

Hands-on experience with DevOps tools: Jenkins, ArgoCD, Git, and Ansible for infrastructure automation.

Proficiency in either Java or Python for platform development and automation tasks.

Experience managing on-premises infrastructure (compute, storage, and networking).

Ability to design, build, and optimize ETL pipelines and data processing workflows for telemetry and log data.

Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, particularly in distributed, high-availability systems.

Familiarity with Agile methodologies and the ability to collaborate effectively with remote and cross-functional teams.

Nice to Have:

Knowledge of the OpenTelemetry standard for metrics, traces, and logs.

Understanding of architecture models such as UML or C4 model.

Foundational knowledge of Machine Learning (ML) concepts.

Certification or hands-on experience as an ELK data engineer.

A little about us:

Innova Solutions is a diverse and award-winning global technology services partner. We provide our clients with strategic technology, talent, and business transformation solutions, enabling them to be leaders in their field.

• Founded in 1998, headquartered in Atlanta (Duluth), Georgia.
• Employs over 50,000 professionals worldwide, with annual revenue approaching $3.0B.
• Delivers strategic technology and business transformation solutions globally.
• Operates through global delivery centers across North America, Asia, and Europe.
• Provides services for data center migration and workload development for cloud service providers.

Awardee of prestigious recognitions including:

• Women’s Choice Awards - Best Companies to Work for Women & Millennials, 2024
• Forbes, America’s Best Temporary Staffing and Best Professional Recruiting Firms, 2023
• American Best in Business, Globee Awards, Healthcare Vulnerability Technology Solutions, 2023
• Global Health & Pharma, Best Full Service Workforce Lifecycle Management Enterprise, 2023
• Received 3 SBU Leadership in Business Awards
• Stevie International Business Awards, Denials Remediation Healthcare Technology Solutions, 2023