Function
Elia Group is driving the decade of electrification, accelerating the energy transition and adapting to new consumption behaviours. Elia Group is building an operations team for the new Elia Digital Platform (EDP). The EDP Platform is a service oriented, cloud-native platform that is being built to provide application teams with self-service capabilities to develop, run and operate their software products. EDP Platform provides services for application infrastructure, data, service lifecycle management, application build and delivery as well as services to operate their software products. The EDP Platform is deployed as a hybrid cloud, encompassing both private cloud and select public clouds. The EDP BE operations team will focus on the operational tasks for Elia Transmission Belgium’s private cloud.
The team is now looking for a DevOps Cloud engineer.
As DevOps Cloud engineer, you’ll streamline developer workflows on the EDP platform by reducing overhead and automating tasks, allowing developers to focus on business logic. You will provide tools across five key product clusters: the Collaboration Suite (Jira, Confluence), CodeBuild (CI for automation and source management), Deployment (CD with Kubernetes and based on ArgoCD and Harness), Security & Compliance (AquaSec, Sonar), and the DevOps Portal, which serves as a self-service hub based on Backstage.io for interacting with all DOE (DevOps enablement) products and EDP services.
Scope of responsibilities:
- As DevOps cloud Enablement (DOE) Engineer you will be our application project key contact. You must be able to function in a virtual, cross-functional team as the ambassador for the EDP project. Ensures development methodologies are aligned to the EDP project principles, standards and implementation.
- Automate build and deployment processes, including the development and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines for development, testing and deployment of containers.
- Implement observability solutions to monitor application health, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Implement and follow-up on policies, compliance and image and container security.
- Help establish an operations team comprised of internal and external employees. Work collaboratively with other members of the team, infrastructure teams, and others. Work with the delivery team for the operationalization of CI/CD and IaC/gitops processes.
- Reinforce our operations: executing service requests, handle incidents and follow-up on problems
- Contribute to the platforms documentation and share knowledge.
- Contribute to the development of the DOE products with a focus on reliability and stability.
Your Profile
Technical skills
- Experience with operating services on top of Kubernetes / hyperscaler platforms
- Fundamental understanding of core operations processes (incident management, change management, problem management, IT Service Management)
- Must have extensive hands-on DevOps toolchain knowledge (Jira, Gitlab, Backstage, ArgoCD, Harness, Harbor, JFrog Artifactory, Kaniko)
- Experience with automation, infrastructure as code and/or gitOps
- Good understanding of networking concepts, including protocols, load balancing, and security
- Security operations (AquaSec, Sonar)
- Monitoring and observability (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk)
Non-technical skills
- At least 5 years of demonstrable experience with managing cloud-native applications on an enterprise private/hybrid cloud platform as a devops engineer and/or solution architect
- Fundamental understanding of core operations processes (incident management, change management, problem management, IT Service Management)
- Understand the Shift-Left approach and establishing processes that works towards that
- Fluent in English in speech and writing. Knowledge of Dutch, French and/or German is a plus.
- Must have excellent communication and leadership skills
Other
- Holder of a valid drivers license
- On-call support: participate in on-call rotations to provide 24/7 support for critical systems and infrastructure.
Offer
- Salary: a competitive salary package, allowance for representation expenses, year-end bonus, double vacation pay, meal vouchers (€8 per working day), eco-vouchers, sport & culture vouchers, bonuses based on individual and group results.
- Insurance: group insurance, hospitalisation insurance, ambulant care insurance for the whole family and also personal accident insurance.
- Vacation: You will be entitled to 20 vacation days and 5 additional vacation days, 6 local days, 4 exempt days (after 1 year of employment) and up to 5 long-service days (1 day for every 3 years in employment).
- Social fund: Year-end vouchers, birth and marriage allowance. We will also cover part of the cost of glasses, a dental prosthesis or similar needs.
- Communication: you will be given an iPhone, a phone subscription (for work and private use) and a laptop with internet reimbursement.
- Discounts: you will enjoy a 30% discount on your gas and electricity bill.
- Mobility: we will offer you a company car and public transport or a mobility budget.
- Elia shares: Elia will give you the opportunity to subscribe to shares with a discount of 16.66% on the average
Location
Schaerbeek (close to train station) + telework with occasional travel to Berlin