Company: Cronos Europa

Location: Brussels, Belgium (must live within 2 hours of Brussels by car)

Job Type: Long-term Project

Nationality Requirement: European Union Citizenship Required

For one of our clients, we are looking for a DevOps Engineer.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain standard CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Git (Bitbucket), and Maven/Gradle.
• Integrate Nexus Repository Manager for artifact storage and management.
• Automate container builds with Docker and Helm charts.
• Deploy and scale containerized applications on OpenShift.
• Contribute to the standardization and automation of release processes, including branching and tagging strategies.
• Collaborate with Digital Product teams to gather feedback, suggest improvements, and align on best practices.
• Enforce security standards defined by integrating SAST/DAST scanning tools (SonarQube, Veracode, Trivy, Syft).
• Maintain base UBI images and ensure regular application of security patches.
• Manage secrets and credentials with HashiCorp Vault in compliance with enterprise security policies.
• Implement centralized logging (ELK stack) and metrics collection (Prometheus, Grafana) according to enterprise standards.
• Partner with developers and automation testers to optimize build, test, and deployment workflows.
• Identify and resolve project-specific bottlenecks in build, test, and deployment processes.
• Provide guidance to developers on integrating their products into the Digital Platform environment.

Skills & Qualifications

• CI/CD & Build Tools – Jenkins, Git (BitBucket), Maven, Nexus.
• Containerization & Orchestration – Docker, Podman, Helm, OpenShift (OKD/OCP).
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) – Terraform, Ansible, Minikube
• Security & Compliance – HashiCorp Vault, Veracode, Trivy, Syft
• Monitoring & Observability – ELK, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Databases & Messaging – PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Kafka (Confluent), Solace PubSub+.
• Scripting & Automation – Python, Bash, ksh, Perl
• Collaboration Tools – JIRA, SharePoint, Confluence, MS Teams.
• Agile & Hybrid DevOps Model – Experience working in federated/centralized DevOps environments.
• Problem-Solving & Communication – Ability to bridge gaps between teams and drive project-specific optimizations