Devops Engineer

Expanding steadily since its launch in 2003, the ACENSI group is an IT consultancy firm, well known for their technical and functional know-how, who specialize in Telecommunications, Media and Financial Markets, as well as in the Energy industry. ACENSI guides businesses in evolutionary IT projects from the initial strategies through to their realization (Management and Project management, Development, Design and Implementation, Infrastructure). From its original focus on technical engineering and Business Analysis, ACENSI has developed new areas of expertise in Human Resource Management Systems, Business Intelligence, e-learning and Client Relationship Management. Dynamism, enthusiasm and social development are all valued at ACENSI, allowing our clients to benefit from consultants with a true blend of talents.

ACENSI BELGIUM is looking for his client a Guard & DevOps Engineer (F/M/X)

Activities

• This position will consist of a dual role. You'll join a motivated operational team that supports the application landscape 24/7. When you are not on duty, you'll be attached to a development team.

As a guard,

• You are the first contact for application issues that business users might experience. You provide and implement solutions or workarounds. If needed you'll escalate the issue to other teams, development or infrastructure otherwise.
• You'll take care of all the operational needs of the development team. The administration and follow-up of the firewalls openings, certificates and any other infrastructure request.
• You'll be a innovating factor to bring new ideas and concepts in to team.
• Guide the development team in building supportable solutions.

As member of the development team you are attached to,

• Collaborate continuously in analyzing further automating the desk in order to improve the performance of the desk. This includes getting familiar with all data-flows used by the team for:

1. Delivering the physical commitments (including ancillary services) and ensure portfolio balance (Nuclear, Thermal, CHP, Renewable and pump storage) in BE, FR, DE and NL.

2. Interfacing with Power Generation information systems and Transport System Operators information systems in Europe.

3. Ensuring compliancy with external regulations (a.o. REMIT).

• Co-develop with the team on the identified solutions in dev-ops mode using the tools we consider to be best fit for the task at hand (currently: microservices, C#, Python, Angular, Azure, Harbord) applying coding best practices (clean code, software craftmanship).
• Continuously collaborate on design and implementation issues with the team to move forward as a team.
• Continuously improve the solutions.

Expected skills

General skills (soft skills)

• The consultant(s) put forward for this assignment must be passionate about tackling challenges both in team and independent that require excellent operational skills with deep insight on into how the energy auctions and energy exchanges work.
• Fascinated by the energy markets and the evolution it is going through because you will help SEM to innovate by adapting to the changing markets and as such facilitate the energy transition.
• You are experienced with DevOps techniques and organizations.
• Looking forward to have close collaboration with the users.
• Independent and stress resistant.
• Curious, creative and innovative in solution findings.

Expected technical skills

You are/have

• Experienced with Cloud computing solutions, and you can administrate resources within the Azure platform. AWS is a plus.
• Experienced with container orchestration (Kubernetes, OpenShift or similar).
• Experienced in software deployment in containers (e.g. Docker).
• Knowledgeable in network infrastructure: (e.g. Load balancers, Firewalls, proxy's, routings ).
• Experienced with Azure DevOps and GitHub.
• Familiar with PowerShell or any other scripting language.
• Interested with Infrastructure as Code and automation tools.
• Interested in Python, Angular, C# on Linux and Windows hosted at Kubernetes & Azure.