SRE/API Solutionist – Platform Engineering

Role: SRE/API Solutionist – Platform Engineering

Location: Brussels, Belgium (Hybrid)

Duration: Till the end of the year + Extension possible

Language: Dutch or French

Description:

Your role & work environment

·        Cloud services & Reliability are a standard in the modern IT infrastructure.

·        The client is in full swing, migrating traditional applications to its own private cloud and preparing for a cloud-native journey toward the public cloud.

·        As passionate IT engineers, we are continuously researching improvements and new technologies that could benefit our cloud journeys. This is where you come in to play!

·        Our teams are responsible for the reliability of the client's IT services, which we do through a combination of software & systems engineering as well as enforcing best practices (Resilience patterns, Monitoring, Postmortems, etc.).

·        We do this in a complex IT landscape with many interconnected applications.

·        We use our influence to improve engineering, processes, and patterns for every service/component that is part of the application chains serving our customer journeys.

As an SRE solutionist in a global organization such as the client, you build solutions that are enterprise scalable, secure, compliant and of course reliable. You would be working with other team members to help DevOps teams adopt, migrate, and consume our container platforms on private and public clouds.

Your key responsibilities

[Technical skills]

·        Proven experience and knowledge of private, public (Azure, Google), and hybrid cloud solutions.

·        Experience & Ambition in Site Reliability Engineering and advocating SRE among peers to apply to our solutions and organization.

·        Proven experience designing highly available and Disaster Recovery capable solutions in a wide organization.

·        Advanced knowledge in API development in Java / Springboot

·        Advanced platform knowledge in platform VM (Windows / Linux), as well as container orchestration (Kubernetes, OpenShift, AKS) 

·        Middleware knowledge like event buses (Kafka, MQ), File Transfer, Application server solutions

·        Knowledge of datastores (structured and non-structured); Oracle DBaaS, Cassandra, ECS S3 Objectstore, …

[Architecture and drive]

·        Proven Track record in reducing complexity and delivering complex IT initiatives across multiple teams

·        Experience in complex application landscapes where you were a part of multiple application chains

·        Experience & Ambition with developing highly available microservices / Solutions (uptime 24*7, 99.88%)

[Soft skills]

·        Good presenter who can convey stories well between business and IT stakeholders.

·        Self-disciplined, very proactive, and organized, with the ability to identify what needs to be done.

·        Strong team player, empowering and challenging squad/chapter members to foster collaboration and individual development

·        Market focus and Outside-in thinker     

We look for

·        A colleague with a talent for taking it on and making it happen, enthusiasm for helping others to be successful, and a knack for always being a step ahead.

·        In other words, you strive to bring fresh ideas to life and embrace challenges in a fast-changing and complex environment.

·        You are a naturally collaborative person who listens and invests in others to achieve common goals. You love to challenge the status quo and are eager to propose creative solutions to problems.

As a Solutionist you will also need the:

·        Bachelor / Master of Science in Computer Science or equivalent experience

·        We offer you

·        A hybrid way of working

·        We give the autonomy to our employees to let them organize their work in a flexible way that suits best them while ensuring business continuity, customer service, and employee wellbeing.

Furthermore, within the SRE department, you can count on a range of opportunities to invest in your personal and professional growth with:

·        The possibility to participate in courses and training

·        Work in a challenging environment with state-of-the-art technologies

·        We redefine banking. What about you?

·        We’re on a journey that’s centered around our customers, powered by technology and driven by smart, determined people. Our customers feel our people are empowering them to stay a step ahead in life and in business. We’re proud of that!