What you will do
You will work within the intelligence and innovation directorate of a public-sector organisation, where you will be responsible for designing, implementing and optimising scalable, secure and highly available ICT platforms. Your focus will be on container infrastructure, infrastructure automation, CI/CD processes and streamlining deployments across different environments.
Your responsibilities include:
- Setting up and managing container platforms
- Automating infrastructure and configurations according to Infrastructure as Code principles
- Developing deployment pipelines
- Improving monitoring, logging and operational reliability
- Supporting development and operational teams with complex technical problems
- Coaching teams in further professionalising their DevOps practices
What we are looking for
Must have:
- Higher education (bachelor or master) with a technical or engineering background, or equivalent through experience with the ICT technology for which expertise is required
- At least 8 years of demonstrable experience with the technology in question or similar technology
- Demonstrable experience with infrastructure automation, configuration management and operational processes
- Demonstrable experience with Docker and platforms such as Nomad and Kubernetes for managing and deploying applications
- Demonstrable experience with managing and deploying infrastructure via code, for example with Terraform
- Demonstrable experience with managing, configuring and optimising Linux server environments
- Demonstrable experience with setting up and managing automated build, test and deployment pipelines, preferably with GitLab CI/CD
- Demonstrable experience with highly available infrastructures, load balancing, clustering and solving complex infrastructure problems
- Dutch language skills at European CEFR level C2
Should have:
- Demonstrable experience with complex ICT projects within a government organisation or other business-critical context
- Demonstrable experience with coaching technical teams and improving DevOps processes and working methods
- Demonstrable experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Loki and the Elastic Stack
- Demonstrable experience with tools such as Puppet or Ansible for automated configuration management
- Demonstrable knowledge of network architecture, firewalls, TLS/SSL, reverse proxies and infrastructure security
The setting
This assignment runs from 30 November 2026 until 31 December 2027, with the possibility of extension by mutual agreement in periods of 12 months.
The role is based in Antwerp, with hybrid working possible.
You will need to sign an IT code and NDA.
How you join us
You can join us for this assignment as a freelancer or as an employee of HumanInTech. Same role, same team.
If you join as an employee, your employment continues beyond this assignment. When it ends, we’ll work together to find your next assignment.