DevOps Engineer

Position Title: DevOps Coach

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Duration: 6 Months with extension

Languages: English

Job Description:

As a DevOps Coach and Acceleration Specialist, you will play a crucial role in supporting our Agile transformation and accelerating software delivery. This role involves close collaboration with cross-functional squads, ensuring alignment with customer needs, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and customer success.

Key Responsibilities

1. DevOps Transformation and Agile Acceleration

Collaborate closely with internal squads to drive Agile transformation, enhancing the speed and quality of software delivery.

Apply a visionary DevOps perspective to streamline the software delivery process, ensuring seamless integration of security and Agile practices.

Align software delivery practices with customer needs to support customer success in a secure and efficient manner.

2. Coaching, Mentoring, and Technical Leadership

Serve as a lead coach, designer, and mentor, guiding less experienced team members and encouraging their growth.

Collaborate with squads and engineers, providing strategic input on the continuous delivery pipeline and helping shape its evolution.

Explore innovative processes, products, and technologies, sharing technical knowledge to inspire and lead the team.

3. DevOps Maturity and Success Architecture

Contribute to the DevOps maturity roadmap, aligning strategies with customer needs and industry best practices.

Develop tribe pipeline blueprints and advocate for common architectural patterns to enhance consistency and efficiency.

Act as the voice of the customer, communicating feedback from product tribes to the Tooling tribe, and drive the adoption of Tooling Services in line with customer requirements.

4. Customer-Centric Leadership

Promote a customer-centric approach across DevOps practices, aligning efforts with customer success goals.

Engage with internal customers to understand their software delivery needs and adapt DevOps solutions to meet these requirements.

Act as a liaison between technical teams and upper management, fostering trust and collaboration across the organization.

5. Strategic DevOps Contributions

Lead initiatives to streamline and automate software delivery pipelines, participating in architecture, design, development, testing, and continuous improvement phases.

Promote "compliance-as-code" principles, integrating necessary controls within pipelines to ensure compliance and security.

Assess and address challenges faced by teams, defining strategies to enhance DevOps practices across squads.

Conduct regular demos and solution presentations to global teams, accommodating time zone flexibility as needed.

Qualifications

Experience:

• 7+ years in IT automation, with 2+ years in a leadership role, focusing on SDLC pipeline improvements.
• Extensive background in IT/software delivery, ideally with experience in security-focused architectures and PaaS models.
• Strong Unix/Linux experience; additional experience in system engineering is a plus.

Technical Skills:

• DevOps practices: 3+ years of hands-on experience.
• CI/CD tooling: Experience with Jenkins, Cloudbees CI, Nexus, Bitbucket/git, or equivalent tools.
• Automation/scripting: Proficiency in Python, Terraform, Ansible, etc.
• Containerization platforms: Familiarity with Docker and OpenShift.
• Infrastructure knowledge and testing automation are advantageous.

Education:

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Automation (Scripting) Min. 5+ years
• CI/CD Pipelines Min. 6+ years
• Containerization (Kubernetes/OpenShift) Min. 5+ years
• DevOps Coaching Min. 5+ years
• RHEL Min. 5+ years
• Software Programming (Java/C++/Python) Min. 6+ years
• Leadership Min. 6+ years

How many years of experience with:

• Automation (Scripting)
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Containerization (Kubernetes/OpenShift)
• DevOps Coaching
• RHEL
• Software Programming (Java/C++/Python)
• Leadership