Senior DevOps Engineer (On-Prem) – the company Tech Consulting (m/f/d)

The company Tech Consulting is looking for a highly skilled and motivated  Senior DevOps Engineer (On-Prem) .

Join the software engineering team for our customer BICS (part of Proximus Global) – a global telecommunications enabler – and impact how billions of people communicate.

Build solutions used by top enterprises and carriers: from network for voice, messaging, and data, to 5G IoT, roaming, signaling, and cloud communications businesses. Beyond traditional telecommunications, BICS is at the forefront of enabling digital transformation, cloud interconnectivity, IoT ecosystems, and next-generation mobile services, helping customers navigate the evolving global connectivity landscape.

You won’t find micromanagement here, but you will find the support of a local People Manager, a diverse team, and an AI-enabled culture shaped to increase your productivity instead of replacing people.

Become a part of the BICS community at the company Tech Consulting that has been growing since 2010 and enjoy the comfortable and stable environment where new ideas thrive.

Areas of Responsibility

• Engage with business stakeholders to gather requirements and design solutions that align with engineering standards and support business needs.

• Design, implement, and manage  Red Hat OpenShift  clusters in on-premises (physical and virtualised) environments.

• Take ownership of systems engineering projects related to OpenShift infrastructure.

• Collaborate with development teams to containerize applications and optimize deployment and release workflows.

• Build and maintain  CI/CD pipelines  using OpenShift and associated DevOps tools.

• Automate operational and deployment tasks using  Ansible  and other scripting tools.

• Perform patching and upgrades of OpenShift clusters, ArgoCD, GitLab CI, and related components in compliance with change-management procedures.

• Design, implement, and maintain backup, disaster recovery, and redundancy strategies.

• Participate in  on-call / standby rotation  to support critical platform and infrastructure services and ensure service continuity.

• Support daily operations including trend analysis, root cause analysis, monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolution of platform issues to ensure high availability and reliability.

• Implement and enforce security best practices, including RBAC, vulnerability management, and compliance controls.

• Improve alerting, monitoring, and observability capabilities across OpenShift and related systems.

• When OpenShift-related workload is limited, perform  general system administration activities , including Linux server administration, infrastructure maintenance, and support of data center services as part of the infrastructure team.

• Produce and maintain up-to-date documentation, including architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and runbooks.

• Provide knowledge transfer, mentoring, and training to colleagues on OpenShift, GitLab, and related infrastructure technologies.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of relevant professional experience or equivalent certifications (including Red Hat OpenShift), with at least 4 years in IT infrastructure or platform engineering.

• Proven hands-on experience deploying, operating, and maintaining Kubernetes platform in enterprise or on-premise environments.

• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, particularly using GitLab CI and/or Jenkins.

• Solid background in Linux system administration, especially Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), including design and maintenance of enterprise Linux infrastructure.

• Practical experience with infrastructure automation using Ansible or similar tools.

• Scripting skills using Bash and/or Python for automation and operational tasks.

• Experience with GitOps practices and tools such as ArgoCD or Flux.

• Ability to document architectures, configurations, and standards, and to develop and maintain SOPs and technical documentation.

• Upper-intermediate level of English (both spoken and written).

Will be an advantage

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Engineering or Computer Science.

• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform is a plus.

• Experience working with OpenShift.

• Knowledge of ITIL Service Operations principles.

• Experience with ArgoCD, monitoring/observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.), or disaster recovery tooling (optional but valuable).

Personality & Soft Skills

• Solution-oriented mindset.

• Strong analytical and technical problem-solving abilities.

• Ability to work autonomously with minimal guidance, operate at multiple levels of abstraction, and handle ambiguity effectively.

• Ability to understand business drivers, stakeholder expectations, and translate them into technical solutions.

• Ability to balance strategic considerations with operational practicality.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; capable of influencing, guiding, and leading distributed technical teams.

• Ability to produce high-quality architectural documentation and visual design diagrams (e.g., Visio).

• Passionate about technology and its impact on business outcomes.

• Highly motivated team player with a “can-do” attitude, dedication, transparency, and integrity.

• Comfortable working in a multicultural, international environment.

At the company, we believe in the power of diversity, equity, and inclusion. We encourage applicants of all backgrounds, genders (m/f/d), and walks of life to join our team, as we believe that this fosters an inspiring workplace and fuels innovation. Our commitment to openness, trust, and diversity is at the heart of our mission to create digital futures that benefit businesses, societies, and humanity.

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