itsme Digital ID - Belgian Mobile ID Nv - Cloud System Engineer ( Data Focus)

What your job looks like

• Assist developers with database setups and structure to maintain the integrity, performance, and efficiency of the systems;
• Troubleshoot database performance issues, and define both short and long term actions to fix structural issues
• Setup and maintain a new data platform based on databricks
• Automating deployment, scaling, and management of the containerized applications in a public cloud environment (e.g., setting up new infrastructure components with terraform and automated pipelines)
• Implementation/configuration of security standards (e.g., NIST, OWASP);
• Manage problems and (security) incidents (e.g. increased error rates in the itsme components, etc.):
• Identifying the root causes of problems (i.e. root cause analysis at every level of the solution (application, network, infrastructure, storage)
• Increase database/datalake knowledge in the team in general to make sure everybody in the team has the basic skills needed to troubleshoot database related incidents
• Automate repetitive tasks that are performed manually.
• You take ownership of your projects, reach out to your colleagues and can act as a go-to person;
• You have an open and flexible mindset; You can easily adapt to changing contexts;
• You have an automation mindset and are used to managing infrastructure as code.
• You are a critical thinker and think about what the best solution is when you are asked to perform a task.
• You are a team player who shares his/her knowledge and likes to celebrate joint achievements;
• You are service- and customer-oriented;
• You have strong SQL skills (query optimization, schema design, troubleshooting)
• You have experience with MySQL administration specific on replication setups
• You have a working knowledge of apache spark and pyspark for distributed data processing
• Experience with azure synapse
• Experience with databricks (workspace administration, cluster management, job orchestration)
• Familiarity with noSQL DB's like MongoDB
• Knowledge of Redis or alternatives
• Experience with Kubernetes based cloud environments (compute, networking, iam, storage)
• Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code software (e.g. terraform)
• Plus: Knowledge of scripting languages: python, golang, ...
• Plus: experience with Grafana observability stack
• Plus: experience with github actions pipelines
• You are fluent in English, and in Dutch or French.