Belgium: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - (Airspace Industry)- Freelance ( REF18)

In the Role of the SRE you will:

• Be a member of a dynamic team to operate and maintain mission critical applications of the customer.
• Work with the newest, state of art cloud native technologies both in the cloud and on-prem.
• Deploy products and automate deployments.
• Monitor systems, and implement instrumentation for better observability, ML, and other techniques to predict and avoid anomalies.
• Detect, identify, analyze, faults if they arise, help fixing, work on solutions to avoid further occurrence.
• Constantly improve the service availability, scalability, performance, monitoring, and the overall manageability.
• Be involved in a common work with security experts, architects, and developers to build and improve a sustainable technical landscape.
• Continuously research and assess new approaches for potential use, and provide recommendations and subject matter expertise regarding trends, technology, tools, and services.
• Actively and continuously promote and contribute to improvements of operations and SRE, e.g., monitoring, observability, incident management, deployment or change management.
• Contribute to all areas of solution architecture as a team member.

Must have Skills:
• Proactive attitude and passion for automation.
• Team player, who can work individually.
• Ability to work in online collaboration in an international environment.
• Ability to quickly acquire and utilize knowledge on new methodologies and solutions.
• Being calm, analytical, structured, and reliable during incident resolution.

Strong ethics and confidentiality Must have qualification (Demonstrable experience required):

• Relevant bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in computer science or related field.
• A minimum of 3 years of relevant experience to perform the advertised tasks.
• Good understanding and experience in SRE / Operations principles and frameworks, DevOps and DevSecOps principles.
• Good understanding of security principles.
• Hands on experience with Kubernetes (AKS, OpenStack), Linux system administration (RedHat) and good understanding of networking protocols.
• Hands on experience in automation, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, Git (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins).
• Experience in scripting (bash, Python).
• Knowledge and hands on experience in operating and automating solutions with at least two from the following technologies/Products or equivalents:
• Observability (Elastic, Prometheus, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry)
• Cloud services (preferred Azure)
• Document database (MongoDB)
• Relational database management system (preferred PostgreSQL)
• Web Servers, load balancers, forward and reverse proxies (Nginx, Squid)
• Messaging system (preferred Solace)
• Event Streaming (preferred Kafka)
• Issue tracking / agile project management tool (Jira, ServiceNow)
• IAM (Okta)
• Secret management (Hashicorp Vault)
• Experience with Static and Dynamic Application Security Testing is considered as an advantage.
• Professional qualification in relevant fields is considered as an advantage.