DevOps Engineer (PaaS) for NATO with security clearance

If your idea of a good week is a pipeline that deploys itself and an alert that fires before anyone notices, this is your role.

You will streamline application delivery for a NATO service oriented architecture and identity team in Belgium, sitting between the developers and the platform.

What you will be doing

• Designing, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines that fully automate testing, integration and delivery
• Provisioning and managing hybrid infrastructure on-premises and in cloud, using Infrastructure as Code
• Administering container orchestration platforms and onboarding applications into production with the dev teams

• Building the monitoring, logging and alerting that keeps the platform honest
• Embedding security and compliance controls into the pipelines and infrastructure configuration, not bolting them on
• Troubleshooting complex integration and deployment problems across agile delivery teams

What you will need

• Three to five years hands-on in DevOps or automated platform management
• Strong CI/CD, GitOps, pipeline automation and version control with GitLab, ArgoCD or Jenkins
• Real container work: Kubernetes, Rancher, RKE2, Docker

• Infrastructure as Code in practice: Terraform for provisioning, Ansible for configuration
• Hybrid estate experience across VMware and a major cloud, Azure, AWS or GCP
• Scripting in Bash or Python

Worth knowing before you apply

• Fully on-site in Braine-l'Alleud
• About 700 hours from late September to the end of December 2026

Practical detail

• Contract engagement
• An active security clearance is required for this role

Your CV may not be up to date. That is not a problem, send me whatever you have and I will come back to you either way.