C004843 Senior Engineer (Kubernetes Orchestrator) (NS) - THU 21 May

Deadline Date: Thursday 21 May 2026 Requirement: Senior Engineer (Kubernetes Orchestrator) Location: Braine-l'Alleud, BE Full Time On-Site: Yes Time On-Site: 100% Total Scope of the request (hours): 1000 Required Start Date: 29 June 2026 End Contract Date: 31 December 2026 Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET   Duties & Role:   • Design, build, and evolve highly scalable, secure, and resilient Kubernetes platforms utilizing SUSE Rancher as the central management plane. • Handle the end-to-end lifecycle of RKE/RKE2 clusters (provisioning, scaling, patching and upgrading) across hybrid, multi-cloud or bare-metal environments with minimal to zero downtime. • Develop and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines and implement GitOps workflows (using tools like Gitlab, ArgoCD or Rancher Fleet) to streamline continuous application delivery. • Monitor platform health using tools like Prometheus and Grafana, respond to system alerts and troubleshoot complex containerized workload issues. • Enforce security policy's, including network policies, Rancher RBAC configurations and automated container image scanning. • Proactively monitor resource utilization (CPU, memory, persistent storage) to right-size clusters, scale nodes dynamically and optimize cloud or on-prem infrastructure. • Create and maintain technical documentation, including runbooks and architecture diagrams. • Some work outside of normal Office hours may be required. • Up to 100 TDY within Belgium per year.