🚀 Job Title: Platform Engineer (Remote - Nearshore EU)

📍 Location: Remote (within Nearshore EU)

🏢 Industry: Energy & Utilities

🕒 Contract Type: Freelance / Time & Materials

📅 Start Date: 01 September 2025

📆 Duration: Until 31 July 2026 (extendable by 12 months)

🔢 Openings: 2

💼 Workload: Full-time (100%)

🌐 Remote Policy: Fully Remote (No onsite required)

🧭 About the Role

We're seeking experienced Platform Engineers to support the evolution of a federal energy market platform used across the Belgian utilities sector. You'll be part of a strategic initiative focused on standardizing and optimizing how energy data is exchanged between transmission and distribution operators and suppliers.

This is a fully remote, nearshore-friendly opportunity where you'll work on Azure-based cloud infrastructure, enable modern DevOps practices, and help development teams deliver efficiently on a critical national system.

🛠️ Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions).
• Automate deployment, observability, and configuration processes.
• Enable infrastructure as code (IaC) practices using tools like Terraform or Bicep.
• Drive observability using logging and monitoring stacks.
• Work closely with development teams to optimize delivery pipelines and runtime environments.
• Ensure high availability, security, and scalability of all platforms.
• Apply DevSecOps best practices and integrate security tooling within pipelines.

💡 Must-Have Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of experience in Azure platform engineering or DevOps roles.
• Strong experience in:
• Microsoft Azure
• CI/CD automation (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions)
• Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, ArgoCD
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, Pulumi)
• Observability stack (e.g., ELK, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Fluent English (minimum C1 level).

➕ Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with:
• Microservices architecture
• Security tooling integrated in CI/CD pipelines
• Event-driven architectures
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in IT or related field.