DevOps Consultant

🛠️ DevOps Engineer – Defense & Aerospace

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Security Requirement: Must be eligible for NATO clearance (current clearance not mandatory)

Languages: French (mandatory), English (professional proficiency)

About the Role

Join a mission-critical team contributing to the digital backbone of secure and innovative defense and aerospace systems. As a DevOps Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in building, deploying, and maintaining resilient platforms, with a focus on security, observability, and automation. You will be embedded in a high-stakes environment where precision, reliability, and compliance are paramount.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage containerized workloads using Kubernetes in secure environments.
• Implement and maintain Istio Service Mesh for traffic control, security policies, and observability.
• Configure secure networking protocols and components at both fundamental and advanced levels.
• Develop and enforce PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) standards across systems.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Ansible, ensuring repeatability and scalability.
• Deploy and monitor system metrics using Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.
• Integrate Cilium for enhanced Kubernetes security, network visibility, and observability.
• Maintain robust Linux-based environments and contribute to system hardening practices.
• Manage virtualized and storage environments with high availability and redundancy.
• Contribute to the CI/CD lifecycle with security-focused practices and compliance.

Requirements

Security & Clearance

• Must be a national of a NATO member country and eligible for NATO SECRET clearance.
• Understanding of secure development environments and data classification protocols is an asset.

Qualifications & Experience

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or System Administration roles.
• Proven experience with:
• Kubernetes, Istio
• Networking (basic and advanced), PKI
• Linux administration
• Infrastructure as Code using Ansible
• Observability tools: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki
• Container security and networking with Cilium
• Storage and virtualization technologies (e.g., Ceph, VMware, or KVM)

Language Skills

• French: Fluent (required for team communication and documentation)
• English: Professional level (written and spoken)

Bonus Points

• Experience working in defense, aerospace, or government-related projects.
• Knowledge of STIGs, DISA guidelines, or other compliance frameworks.
• Exposure to GitOps workflows and tools such as ArgoCD or Flux.
• Familiarity with classified environment deployment processes.