IT Architect (DevOps)

IT Architect (DevOps)

Duration: Long Term

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Description

Propose systems, components and/or services architecture, COTS software products, standards; and/or evaluate technical offers from contractors;

Make proposals for architecture governance and/or evaluate technical offers from contractors;

Investigate and recommend solutions (including cost benefit analyses, assessment of implementation's duration) and/or evaluate technical solutions proposed by contractors;

Understand, apply and suggest improvements of methodologies, security policies, tools, best practices, etc.;

Support projects by designing services and components (or supervising contractors' design), encouraging re-use as well as committing that the design of the system will fulfil the system's requirements, in particular non-functional requirements (volume, scalability, confidentiality, integrity, availability);

Ensure that the systems, components and/or services' design is consistent with architecture;

Follow up projects to control that the systems', components' and/or services' implementation sticks to the approved design;

Provide advice and consultancy;

Participate in brainstorming, meetings and workshops with contractors, Member States and/or other partners;

Produce and/or review documents. This includes system and application architecture documents.

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree or equivalent (3 years of higher education after secondary studies);

• Minimum of 11 years of professional experience in IT, 3 of which in a relevant position;

• Recent practical experience in IT systems architecture and design;

• Capability for modelling components, data and services;

• Capability for specification of service interfaces, service data and reference models;

• Good knowledge of service implementation patterns (synchronous, asynchronous, request/response, etc.), distributed system design and messaging layer;

• Proven experience of high availability systems design;

• Deep technical knowledge of IT technology

• Virtualisation technologies: VMware Vmotion;

• Database systems: Oracle DB, Oracle RAC;

• DevOps container/orchestration tools (Docker, Ansible, Kubernates etc.)

• Reference: 20-05902