DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

Overview

Our client a leading financial-services organization in Belgium is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join their technology and platform engineering team. The ideal candidate will bring strong technical expertise a security-first mindset and experience working in highly regulated environments. You will help design automate and optimise CI/CD pipelines cloud and on-prem infrastructure and operational workflows that support mission-critical financial applications.

Key Responsibilities

Platform & Infrastructure Engineering

• Design implement and maintain scalable secure infrastructure (on-prem cloud or hybriddepending on client environment).
  
• Manage and automate infrastructure provisioning using IaC tools such as Terraform Ansible or CloudFormation.
  
• Oversee containerisation and orchestration platforms (Docker Kubernetes OpenShift).
  

CI/CD & Automation

• Build maintain and optimise CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI GitHub Actions Jenkins Azure DevOps etc.).
  
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure smooth automated deployments.
  
• Improve release processes reduce deployment risk and increase deployment frequency.
  

Monitoring Reliability & Operations

• Implement monitoring observability and logging solutions (ELK Prometheus/Grafana Splunk Dynatrace etc.).
  
• Troubleshoot performance reliability and system-level issues across environments.
  
• Participate in on-call or incident-management rotations (if required by the client).
  

Security & Compliance

• Embed security in all DevOps workflows (shift-left security).
  
• Support compliance with Belgian and EU regulatory frameworks (e.g. PSD2 GDPR EBA guidelines).
  
• Work closely with Security and Risk teams to implement best-practice controls.
  

Collaboration & Culture

• Act as a bridge between development infrastructure and security teams.
  
• Promote DevOps best practices automation culture and continuous improvement.
  
• Contribute to technical documentation and knowledge sharing.
  

Requirements

Required Skills & Experience

• 4 years of experience in DevOps Site Reliability Engineering or Infrastructure Engineering.
  
• Strong background with Linux systems engineering and scripting (Bash Python or similar).
  
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools and version-control systems (Git).
  
• Expertise with containerisation and orchestration technologies.
  
• Practical experience with cloud platforms (AWS Azure or GCP).
  
• Knowledge of networking concepts (VPN DNS load balancing firewalls).
  
• Fleunt in English and French or Dutch Ideally
  
• Solid understanding of security practices and regulatory considerations in financial services.