Function
Our client is looking for an experienced DevOps professional to support the management and operations of a central AWS platform. This opportunity focuses on building, scaling, and improving cloud infrastructure, with a strong emphasis on automation, reliability, and secure platform operations.
Responsibilities
- Build, manage, and operate the central AWS platform and its associated services.
- Oversee platform traffic and service flows to ensure stable and efficient operations.
- Improve and further develop infrastructure as code practices.
- Deploy and operationalize applications within the landing zone.
- Expand core platform components such as firewall and DNS services.
- Scale the infrastructure of the central AWS environment as demand evolves.
- Automate releases across multiple environments.
- Monitor infrastructure and application health and take corrective action where needed.
- Configure new services and flows as required.
- Prepare system failure and recovery plans to support platform continuity.
- Take the necessary actions to safeguard the reliability of the platform and underlying systems.
Technical Skills
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS is required.
- Proven experience automating CI/CD processes, for example with GitHub or Azure DevOps Pipelines.
- Solid practical experience with Python.
- Proven experience with infrastructure as code.
- Experience with AWS CLI is considered an advantage.
- Experience with Azure DevOps is considered an advantage.
- Experience with AWS security and governance services such as Control Tower, SCP, Security Hub, GuardDuty, IAM, Identity Center, or Inspector is considered an advantage.
- Experience managing a container orchestration platform such as ECS Fargate, Kubernetes, or Docker is considered an advantage.
- Knowledge of PostgreSQL, MSSQL, or MongoDB administration is considered an advantage.
Profile
The ideal candidate brings a technical or engineering background and can demonstrate relevant experience with the required technologies, or with similar technologies in a comparable environment.
- Higher education degree at bachelor’s or master’s level, or equivalent experience in ICT technologies requiring specialist expertise.
- Demonstrable experience with AWS and related cloud technologies.
- Proven experience working in an Agile and DevOps environment is a plus.
- Experience with a central hosting platform in a hub-and-spoke architecture must be demonstrated through one or more concrete cases.
- Experience with implementations aligned to an information classification framework is considered an advantage.
- NDA document must be signed and uploaded.
Practical Information
- This is a consulting assignment requiring 5 days per week.
- The assignment is spread across two consultants and is described as a long-term opportunity.
- The external consultant works from a personal laptop with virtual access to the client environments.
- Interviews are planned within two weeks after the submission deadline.
- Language requirement: fluent Dutch at CEFR level C2.
- English is also required.
Contactperson & Reference
- Reference #: INW27885
- Geert Roete
- geert.roete@i4m.be