DevOps Engineer in Alliance Cloud CSI Squad

DevOps Engineer in Alliance Cloud CSI Squad

SWIFT

Brussels, Belgium

Key Responsibilities

Operational Excellence

• Deploy changes, patches, and releases in test and production environments (core responsibility);
• Prepare, present, test and execute changes in Production - requiring on‑site presence 3 days per week;
• Perform occasional Production changes outside business hours (± once per month);
• Log, investigate and resolve/escalate operational issues occurring in test and production systems;
• Ensure high availability, data integrity, and security through appropriate controls and validation.

Systems & Platform Management

• Maintain and operate a mission‑critical application deployed across multiple data centers, based on micro‑services and synchronous replication;
• Contribute to resiliency and capacity improvements in collaboration with other engineering teams.

DevOps & Continuous Delivery

• Design, maintain, and evolve our DevOps pipeline using technologies including Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Jenkins, Ansible, ArgoCD, and others;
• Participate in code and configuration reviews to enforce best practices, resilience, and consistency;
• Promote automation, shift‑left principles, and reliability‑focused engineering.

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

• Participate in change planning and risk mitigation activities;
• Stay up to date on DevOps tools, SRE practices, modern deployment techniques, and industry trends;
• Suggest improvements to increase efficiency, quality, and operational robustness.

Professional Qualifications

Profile & Soft Skills

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience;
• Minimum 3 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or in a similar role;
• Autonomous, proactive, and comfortable driving improvements and managing change;
• Customer‑oriented with strong attention to quality and detail;
• Team‑player with an open, solution‑oriented mindset;
• Able to work effectively independently and collaboratively;
• Fluent in English (spoken and written) with strong communication skills;
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and handle multiple tasks simultaneously;
• Experience with agile methodologies is an asset.

Technical skills

Required

• Strong hands‑on experience with Linux systems (RedHat preferred);
• Experience with continuous delivery technologies: Jenkins, Git, Maven, Jira, Docker, Kubernetes, Kibana, OpenShift, Ansible, ArgoCD;
• Experience with databases (Oracle, H2) and data modelling;
• Understanding of SSL/TLS, HTTP/S, XML (schema, XSLT);
• Knowledge of distributed frameworks (Kafka, Zookeeper);
• Familiarity with scripting and automation (Python);
• Comfortable collaborating with Java development teams (reading logs, understanding stack traces, deployment artifacts, etc.).

Nice to Have

• Experience with secrets management, especially HashiCorp Vault;
• Experience with SRE practices, observability, or reliability engineering.