DevOps Lead

Editx; Brussel; Sur place; EUR 70 000 - 90 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Editx is seeking an Infrastructure & Operations Lead in Brussels who will oversee TechOps and Internal IT teams. The role combines hands-on technical work with leadership in managing high-availability systems.

Your responsibilities include ensuring service continuity, managing Linux-based infrastructures, and improving operational processes. The ideal candidate will have experience with automation tools and a solid understanding of network and database operations.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in managing high-availability environments.
• Expertise in Linux-based infrastructures and cloud platforms.
• Strong understanding of DNS, network, and security operations.

Responsabilités

• Lead day-to-day operations of TechOps and Internal IT teams.
• Contribute technically to infrastructure operations.
• Drive operational quality and continuous improvement.

Connaissances

Infrastructure and operations management

Hands-on technical expertise

Team leadership

Automation tools (Terraform, Ansible)

Monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)

Database management (PostgreSQL)

Description du poste

Are you ready to step into a role where you shape how TechOps and Internal IT teams deliver reliability & automation at scale?

Are you an experienced infrastructure leader who enjoys combining hands-on technical work with team leadership in complex, high-availability environments? Do you thrive when systems must stay resilient, secure, and continuously availableand where operational excellence truly matters?

As Infrastructure & Operations Lead, you will be responsible for the operational leadership, coordination, and delivery of TechOps and Internal IT activities.

You will ensure service continuity, infrastructure reliability, and execution excellence across production systems while guiding a team of system and infrastructure engineers as well as internal IT engineers.

This is a hands-on leadership role where you will contribute technically while also driving operational maturity, alignment, and continuous improvement across the organisation.

Operational leadership & delivery

• Lead day-to-day operations across TechOps and Internal IT teams
• Coordinate priorities, workload, and execution of infrastructure initiatives
• Ensure service continuity, incident/problem management, and escalation handling
• Oversee internal IT services, including workplace IT and user support
• Drive operational quality, reporting, audit readiness, and continuous improvement
• Create clarity, structure, and alignment across teams and stakeholders

Infrastructure & platform operations

• Contribute hands-on to production infrastructure operations and evolution
• Manage highly available Linux-based infrastructures across datacenters
• Oversee virtualization, containerization, and private cloud platforms
• Ensure infrastructure reliability, resilience, and stability

DNS & core platform services

• Operate and support large-scale authoritative DNS environments
• Maintain registry and backend systems (Java, Python, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ)
• Ensure availability, performance, scalability, and security of core services

Automation, monitoring & observability

• Drive Infrastructure as Code and automation (Terraform, Ansible)
• Improve CI/CD practices for infrastructure workflows
• Strengthen monitoring and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
• Improve alerting, visibility, and operational insights

Networking, database & security operations

• Support networking and distributed systems (routing, firewalls, anycast)
• Oversee PostgreSQL environments in collaboration with DBA providers
• Ensure compliance with security standards, architecture principles, and best practices
• Maintain backup, identity management, and operational security controls

Collaboration & continuous improvement

• Collaborate across infrastructure, engineering, security, and architecture teams
• Foster accountability, knowledge sharing, and operational maturity
• Improve processes, documentation, and governance
• Stay up to date with modern infrastructure and DevOps practices