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

Park Lane Recruitment ·www.plr.ltd

Location Braine-l'Alleud, Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium, Belgium
Work type Hybrid
Type Full time
Level Senior
Source Shazamme
NATO
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Deadline Date: Thursday 21 May 2026
 
Requirement: Senior Engineer (Kubernetes Orchestrator)
 
Location: Braine-l'Alleud, BELGIUM
 
Full Time On-Site: Yes
 
Time On-Site: 100%
 
Not to Exceed Rate: 95 EUR
 
Total Scope of the request (hours): 1000
 
Required Start Date: 29 June 2026
 
End Contract Date: 31 December 2026
 
Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET
 
Please do NOT apply for any NATO contract positions unless you meet ALL the following criteria:
  1. Current National or NATO SECRET clearance
  2. Nationality of one of the NATO member countries
  3. Current work visa for the specific location if applying for an in-country position
Any applications that do NOT meet all the above - and do not CLEARLY show these on the CV - will be deleted.
 
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.
Requirements
Skill, Knowledge & Experience:
  • The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
  • Minimum of 4 years of dedicated, hands-on experience in DevOps or Platform Engineering roles.
  • Over 4 years of sustained experience designing, deploying and maintaining highly available production Kubernetes clusters, heavily utilizing the SUSE Rancher ecosystem.
  • A solid track record of leading complex migrations, moving legacy virtualized applications into containerized, microservice-based architectures.
  • Expertly provision, secure, and lifecycle-manage large-scale, multi-cluster Kubernetes environments using SUSE Rancher UI/API and Rancher Manager.
  • Write modular, reusable code to automate infrastructure provisioning across hybrid environments using Ansible.
  • Architect and maintain sophisticated, zero-downtime deployment pipelines using GitOps principles with Gitlab, ArgoCD or Rancher Fleet.
  • Author/manage advanced Helm charts and manage complex stateful and stateless deployments.
  • Engineer comprehensive monitoring and logging stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) to establish SLIs/SLOs and configure automated remediation. Experience with Rancher Observability is a plus.
  • Develop robust automation scripts in Python or Bash.
  • Rapidly diagnose and resolve high-severity incidents across the entire stack, from kernel-level container issues to complex network routing failures.
  • Comprehensive understanding of the underlying architectures of RKE, RKE2, K8S /K3s and knowing exactly when to apply each distribution.
  • Knowledge of zero-trust models, Rancher RBAC, Pod Security Admissions, container scanning and enforcing governance.
  • CNIs tools (Calico, Cilium, Canal) deep understanding of Software Defined Network and Container Networking, network policies and managing complex Ingress and Service Mesh (Istio) architectures.
  • Expert knowledge of Container Storage Interfaces (CSI), disaster recovery planning and managing highly available storage solutions like SUSE Longhorn.
  • Extensive practical experience operating distributed Kubernetes environments across a mix of bare-metal, on-premises hypervisors (vSphere, Nutanix), and public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP).
  • Experience acting as a technical escalation point, guiding junior team members, and establishing DevOps best practices across development teams.

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Who is hiring for the C004843 Senior Engineer (Kubernetes Orchestrator) (NS) BELGIUM - 21 May role?
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Where is the C004843 Senior Engineer (Kubernetes Orchestrator) (NS) BELGIUM - 21 May job located?
The C004843 Senior Engineer (Kubernetes Orchestrator) (NS) BELGIUM - 21 May role with Park Lane Recruitment is based in Braine-l'Alleud, BE. The role is hybrid-friendly.
Is the C004843 Senior Engineer (Kubernetes Orchestrator) (NS) BELGIUM - 21 May role remote?
Yes — the C004843 Senior Engineer (Kubernetes Orchestrator) (NS) BELGIUM - 21 May position at Park Lane Recruitment is hybrid. Candidates based in BE are preferred.
Is the C004843 Senior Engineer (Kubernetes Orchestrator) (NS) BELGIUM - 21 May role full-time or contract?
This is a full time position at Park Lane Recruitment.
What experience level is the C004843 Senior Engineer (Kubernetes Orchestrator) (NS) BELGIUM - 21 May role?
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