C004843 Senior Engineer (Kubernetes Orchestrator) (NS) THU 21 May

Deadline Date: Thursday 21 May 2026

Requirement: Senior Engineer (Kubernetes Orchestrator)

Location: Braine-lAlleud BE

Full Time On-Site: Yes

Time On-Site: 100%

Total Scope of the request (hours): 1000

Required Start Date: 29 June 2026

End Contract Date: 31 December 2026

Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET

Duties & Role:

• Design build and evolve highly scalable secure and resilient Kubernetes platforms utilizing SUSE Rancher as the central management plane.
• Handle the end-to-end lifecycle of RKE/RKE2 clusters (provisioning scaling patching and upgrading) across hybrid multi-cloud or bare-metal environments with minimal to zero downtime.
• Develop and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines and implement GitOps workflows (using tools like Gitlab ArgoCD or Rancher Fleet) to streamline continuous application delivery.
• Monitor platform health using tools like Prometheus and Grafana respond to system alerts and troubleshoot complex containerized workload issues.
• Enforce security policys including network policies Rancher RBAC configurations and automated container image scanning.
• Proactively monitor resource utilization (CPU memory persistent storage) to right-size clusters scale nodes dynamically and optimize cloud or on-prem infrastructure.
• Create and maintain technical documentation including runbooks and architecture diagrams.
• Some work outside of normal Office hours may be required.
• Up to 100 TDY within Belgium per year.

Skill Knowledge & Experience:

• The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
• Minimum of 4 years of dedicated hands-on experience in DevOps or Platform Engineering roles.
• Over 4 years of sustained experience designing deploying and maintaining highly available production Kubernetes clusters heavily utilizing the SUSE Rancher ecosystem.
• A solid track record of leading complex migrations moving legacy virtualized applications into containerized microservice-based architectures.
• Expertly provision secure and lifecycle-manage large-scale multi-cluster Kubernetes environments using SUSE Rancher UI/API and Rancher Manager.
• Write modular reusable code to automate infrastructure provisioning across hybrid environments using Ansible.
• Architect and maintain sophisticated zero-downtime deployment pipelines using GitOps principles with Gitlab ArgoCD or Rancher Fleet.
• Author/manage advanced Helm charts and manage complex stateful and stateless deployments.
• Engineer comprehensive monitoring and logging stacks (Prometheus Grafana ELK) to establish SLIs/SLOs and configure automated remediation. Experience with Rancher Observability is a plus.
• Develop robust automation scripts in Python or Bash.
• Rapidly diagnose and resolve high-severity incidents across the entire stack from kernel-level container issues to complex network routing failures.
• Comprehensive understanding of the underlying architectures of RKE RKE2 K8S /K3s and knowing exactly when to apply each distribution.
• Knowledge of zero-trust models Rancher RBAC Pod Security Admissions container scanning and enforcing governance.
• CNIs tools (Calico Cilium Canal) deep understanding of Software Defined Network and Container Networking network policies and managing complex Ingress and Service Mesh (Istio) architectures.
• Expert knowledge of Container Storage Interfaces (CSI) disaster recovery planning and managing highly available storage solutions like SUSE Longhorn.
• Extensive practical experience operating distributed Kubernetes environments across a mix of bare-metal on-premises hypervisors (vSphere Nutanix) and public clouds (AWS Azure GCP).
• Experience acting as a technical escalation point guiding junior team members and establishing DevOps best practices across development teams.

Required Experience:

Senior IC