Official title: Infrastructure / Cloud Platform Engineer
Location: Liège (Liège Province), Belgium — hybrid | Employment information: Full-time; hybrid working with flexible schedules
This Liège-based platform role calls for careful stewardship of services that span local infrastructure and Microsoft Azure. The successful person will handle immediate operational matters, such as monitoring and advanced support, while also helping to shape scalable patterns, automation and technical roadmaps. Work includes improving the consistency of infrastructure through Terraform and pipelines, protecting platforms through security controls and ensuring that recovery arrangements can be exercised. Clear documentation and knowledge sharing are included because the team needs technical information to remain available alongside the platforms themselves.
Responsibilities
- Manage and observe the hybrid infrastructure estate, covering both on-premises systems and Microsoft Azure.
- Sustain platform availability, performance and reliability while handling incident, problem and change-management activity.
- Deliver second- and third-level support, investigate underlying causes and put lasting technical resolutions in place.
- Design, implement and operate Azure IaaS and PaaS infrastructure services.
- Contribute to platform standardisation, scalable designs, architecture work and technical roadmaps.
- Create and maintain Terraform infrastructure as code and assist with Azure DevOps and Git CI/CD pipelines.
- Use PowerShell and scripting to automate operational tasks and promote DevOps ways of working.
- Apply security baselines, patching and hardening, and help with ISO 27001 controls, vulnerability remediation and audit readiness.
- Maintain backup, disaster-recovery and business-continuity arrangements and take part in recovery tests.
- Monitor performance and capacity, identify Azure cost-optimisation opportunities, improve tools and processes, and maintain documentation and knowledge sharing.
Qualifications
- Strong knowledge of hybrid infrastructure that combines on-premises and cloud environments is required.
- Strong knowledge of Azure compute, networking, identity and storage services is required.
- Strong working knowledge of both Windows and Linux operating systems is required.
- Practical experience of Terraform for infrastructure as code is required.
- Practical experience with Azure DevOps, Git, CI/CD and associated DevOps tooling is required.
- Practical experience of PowerShell and scripting for automation is required.
- Fluent French for the IT team and professional English for the worldwide EVS environment are required; no licence requirement is stated.
- Preferred: Familiarity with VMware or Proxmox, DNS, TCP/IP, firewall fundamentals, backup and disaster-recovery solutions, and security practices including ISO 27001 controls is beneficial.
- Preferred: Experience acting as a technical reference on complex subjects, together with an analytical, structured, independent, collaborative, curious, proactive and solution-oriented approach, is beneficial.
Skills and Competencies
- Microsoft Azure IaaS and PaaS capability is used to design, deploy and operate the platform services in scope.
- Hybrid-infrastructure operations support the management and monitoring of connected on-premises and cloud environments.
- Windows and Linux administration underpin advanced support and the running of platform services.
- Terraform skills support repeatable infrastructure-as-code development and maintenance.
- Azure DevOps, Git and CI/CD knowledge assists with pipeline work and DevOps practices.
- PowerShell and scripting capability is applied to reduce manual operational work through automation.
- VMware or Proxmox awareness can support work across virtualised infrastructure.
- DNS, TCP/IP and firewall fundamentals inform network-related platform understanding.
- Backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, ISO 27001 controls and Azure cost optimisation inform resilience, security and capacity-related improvement.
Benefits and Employment Information
- The official offer lists wellness and healthcare benefits.
- Flexible schedules and hybrid or homeworking policies are included in the stated offer.
- Career development, internal mobility and training programmes are listed by the employer.
- The employer describes a friendly, lively and inclusive environment.
- This Infrastructure / Cloud Platform Engineer post is full-time with hybrid working and flexible schedules; EVS describes pay as competitive and aligned with skills and market standards, but publishes no numeric amount.