Experience Required : 8+ Years
The following information aims to provide potential candidates with a better understanding of the requirements for this role. 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 Location Zwijnaarde – Ghent, Belgium Minimum 2 days onsite per week required 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 Secondary Skills (Good xjsrcvq to Have) Infrastructure as Code / Automation Terraform, Crossplane, Puppet GitOps & Kubernetes Delivery Tools Argo CD, Flux, Fleet, Helm, Kustomize Security & Compliance Tooling Image scanning, OPA/Gatekeeper/Kyverno, secrets management SRE Practices SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, post-incident reviews Certifications (Preferred) CKA / CKAD / CKS, AWS Certifications