DevOps Senior Engineer

Who we are

By joining our project, you will be working on an initiative of the European Commission focused on creating a more efficient, modern and secure customs environment within the European Union. Being part of this initiative set on a 5 years’ timeline, you will have the opportunity to work on topics such as digitalization of customs processes, streamlining customs procedures to facilitate trade and reduce costs, harmonization of customs rules across all EU member states and combating fraud.

This purposeful project will not only give you the opportunity to have an impact on one of the key topics within the European Union, it will also offer you various professional opportunities, let you experience a collaborative environment, using cutting-edge technologies and experiencing diversity in your everyday professional life.

What you'll be doing

• Being responsible for implementation of infrastructure automation, enabling teams to deliver solutions faster to meet the demands in a DevOps approach. 
• Assisting project teams with technical issues including the definition of needs, benefits, and technical strategy, research & development within the project life-cycle; technical analysis and design; support of operations staff in executing, testing and rolling-out solutions.
• Implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation solutions
• Developing solutions that automate production infrastructure deployment and operations
• Investigating automation opportunities to increase speed and efficiency
• Performing automation, integration, and orchestration services while working within the constraints of vendor products and implemented solutions
• Monitoring performance and troubleshoot problem areas as needed
• Continuous development on automation products, services, protocols, and standards to keep automation best practices
• Developing standards to meet legacy and on-prem cloud design

What you'll bring along

• Bachelor’s degree in Informatics/ or similar field of study/or equivalent working experience is required
• Minimum 5-10 years of experience within development area
• Extensive knowledge in IT Operations
• Knowledge in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Experience with Red Hat Satellitte or/and CFEngine is a plus
• Good knowledge in troubleshooting and problem resolution
• Extensive knowledge & experience with Automation with ability to provide best practice guidance
• Experience with networking automation
• Experience with implementation and operation of Ansible and one or more automation and orchestration tools and platforms (Terraform, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack, VMWare VRA)
• Experience with Yaml, Python
• Experience creating pipelines and automation to deploy containers
• Experience with metrics gathering, monitoring, and alerting activities
• Knowledge of ITIL functions and processes
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations
• Ability to work and communicate in a multi-cultural environment
• Service-oriented mind-set, initiative, accuracy and attention to detail
• Participate in the integration with collaborative tools and components
• Promote and follow prescribed project management guidelines for projects
• Maintain documentation for all operational / support processes for the systems supported; automate repetitive processes where appropriate
• Stay current with new technologies and techniques as appropriate
• Excellent command of both spoken and written English