DevOps engineer

Location: Belgium

SIRE® is the market leader in Life Sciences recruitment. We believe the recruitment market needs to gear up in technology and continuous innovation. We like technology, in a Life Sciences market driven on science, we couldn’t stay behind; we drive Recruitment Science. Investing a majority of our turnover in technology enables us to use unique Resource Technologies. By using highly advanced algorithms, we enable our team of Resource & Data Strategists© to maintain the most advanced, detailed and complete Life Sciences network in Europe. This big data enables us to work Reverse Recruitment©: we first analyze the market in-depth before we go out to the market. Because we analyze the whole market, we can compare facts and data. This enables us to do Facts & Big Data Recruitment©, making sure we, or better yet, you find the right career!Our client is a professional Life Sciences organisation, based in Flandre Occidentale Belgium.

The Company

For one of our clients in the Gent area in Belgium we are looking for a highly motivated DevOps Engineer to join a team of Bioinformatics and Software Experts. Our client is developing a range of innovative, cloud-based software products for analysis and interpretation of genetic data generated by its test kits

Role Description

As a member of the software development team located in Ghent, you will participate in the following activities:

> Coordinate, implement and improve a platform for continuous build automation, automated testing and release management.
> Ensure cloud security in line with industry standards; both on a technical as well as procedural level.
> Develop, deploy, monitor, maintain and support a growing number of SaaS deployments.
> Perform day-to-day system administration and maintenance tasks.
> Research, recommend, develop, and deploy improvements in a proactive manner.
> Work closely with the development team to operationalize solutions.
> Participate in the software validation process.

Responsibilities

Bachelor or Master degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, System Administration, or similar.
5+ years of relevant professional experience, preferentially working with cloud infrastructures/deployments. Familiarity with ISO 27001 is a plus.
Solid knowledge of the Linux OS (system administration level), virtualization, task automation and database management.

Requirements

Demonstrated Systems experience

o Linux (Ubuntu LTS server/Debian/RHEL)
o Rabbitmq, Celery, Nginx, uWSGI, logstash, elasticsearch
o Databases (Postgres)
o Redis, Couchbase and other NoSQL databases
o Containers (Docker, rkt)

Demonstrated Cloud Environment experience

o Amazon Web Services (EC2, VPC, EFS, S3), OpenStack or equivalent
o Experience with Continuous Integration and Delivery (Jenkins, Bamboo)
o An understanding of application deployment patterns and best practices
o Infrastructure and service monitoring and logging experience (Zabbix, Graphana, Splunk, AppDynamics, DataDog, new Relic…)
o Configuration management tools (Ansible, Salt…)
o Familiarity with micro services architecture
o Affinity with the python Django framework and POSIX

* Strong desire to streamline, optimize and automate workflows.
* Keen interest in learning more about medical device software development.
* Ability to write high quality technical documents in English.
* Team player with good communication skills.
* Pro-active problem-solving mentality and able to work autonomously.

Are you interested and do want to apply for this role, please fill out your application via the apply button below and contact Arjan van der Schoor.