IT Infrastructure Architect - CI/CD & Cloud Platform
Brussels-Capital
Digital - Infrastructure
Work experience: 5-7
Reference number: 92391

Maintain and evolve the CI/CD pipeline for the a digital justice platform, coordinating road fines and judicial digitalization processes. You will optimize tooling for logging, performance monitoring, and vendor independence while ensuring high application uptime.

We are looking for a Senior IT Infrastructure Architect to work with enterprise architects and development teams on enhancing the technical architecture and CI/CD automation for a critical public sector platform.

  • You maintain and evolve the existing CI/CD pipeline, implementing additional tools for incident logging and performance measurement.
  • You make the current infrastructure more vendor-independent, reducing lock-in and increasing flexibility.
  • You design, define, document, and implement the global technical ICT architecture for systems and applications in response to functional needs.
  • You actively assist internal ICT managers in defining and developing technical standards for cloud ICT, considering security, performance, flexibility, and technological scalability.
  • You monitor incidents with development teams and optimize application uptime.
  • You write the technical sections of business analyses when system or application architecture aspects are involved.
  • You evaluate technical proposals for cloud ICT systems and applications, particularly modern and efficient CI/CD pipelines.
  • You provide quotes, schedules, analyses, and proposals for quality, efficiency, and CI/CD pipeline management improvements.
  • You establish work planning and monitor planning, quality, performance, specification compliance, and testing requirements.

What are we looking for?

  • You have 5+ years of experience as an IT Infrastructure Architect in a public sector IT environment, ideally Belgian Federal Public Service (SPF) Justice.
  • You have deep expertise in automated CI/CD pipelines.
  • You have confirmed experience with Azure (PaaS/IaaS) and Azure Active Directory.
  • You have confirmed experience with RedHat, VMWare, and nginx.
  • You have confirmed experience with Rancher and Kubernetes orchestration.
  • You have confirmed experience with GIT version control.
  • You have confirmed experience with Elastic and Grafana for logging and monitoring.
  • You have MCSA and MCTS Windows Server certifications or equivalent experience.
  • You have worked in sensitive contexts requiring security clearance (Secret level or similar from ANS, Federal Police, NATO, or European institutions).
  • You are fluent in French, Dutch, and English (active knowledge in all three required).

Nice-to-Have

  • Experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code
  • Experience with HashiCorp Vault for secrets management
  • Experience with Helm for Kubernetes package management
  • Experience with Istio service mesh
  • Experience with Jaeger for distributed tracing
  • Experience with Kubespray for Kubernetes deployment
  • Knowledge of ITSM and ITIL frameworks
  • Experience in Belgian public sector IT environments

What do we offer?

Location: Brussels - Hybrid

Start date: As soon as possible

End date: 30 June 2026

Duration: 7 months

Contract: Freelance or Permanent

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