* Minimum 2 days onsite per week required in Zwijnaarde – Ghent, Belgium
Experience Required : 8+ Years
* Senior-level hands-on experience leading and operating production-grade Kubernetes platforms
* Strong experience in cloud-native platform engineering with ownership of reliability, security, and scalability
* Proven experience working as a Technical Lead / Senior Individual Contributor
* Experience collaborating with Product Owners and cross-functional engineering teams
Primary Skills
* Kubernetes (Production Operations)
* Cluster operations, upgrades, patching, troubleshooting, performance tuning
* Rancher / RKE2
* Kubernetes provisioning, lifecycle management, operations
* AWS Cloud Services
* IAM, VPC, EC2, EKS, Load Balancers, Route 53, CloudWatch
* Linux Administration
* Networking, storage, system security hardening, scripting/automation
* Kubernetes & Cloud Networking
* TCP/IP, DNS, TLS/Certificates, ingress, load balancing, routing, firewalls
* Monitoring & Incident Management
* Observability (metrics, logs, alerts), incident response, root-cause analysis
* CI/CD & Version Control
* GitHub, GitHub Actions
* Documentation
* Architecture documents, runbooks, SOPs, onboarding guides