Package Description
- Competitive Salary
- Corporate Benefits Package
- Chance to make a positive difference in a company passionate about diversity and inclusion.
Further information available from the Serco Europe Recruitment Team
Job Introduction
Serco is the preferred partner for European Institutions and International Organisations, offering ICT services and Contact Centre management across Europe. Our expertise extends from Information System support to consultancy under the government framework, supporting key entities such as the European Commission and Executive Agencies. As a leader in Service Integration and Management, we ensure seamless delivery of services across various platforms, embodying our commitment to excellence in every aspect of our work.
We are hiring a Senior Cloud Architect for European Commission in Brussels and various locations around Europe.
Main Responsibilities
Meet the DPP stakeholders to collect the infrastructure requirements (functional and non-functional)
Create designs and blueprints of cloud architecture, prioritising the components that will bring the most benefits for the Digital Product Passport project.
Advise on the most appropriate cloud services, ranking them and emphasizing advantages and disadvantages of each
Design and develop architecture components and building blocks using cloud components.
Proof of Concept, prototyping of infrastructure solutions, including the use of cloud-native services and features. Participate in coordination and project meetings.
Collaborate with other contractors or teams working on various aspects of the DPP IT system implementation or policy development.Provide expert technical assistance on the managed cloud service providers and their services: technical guidance, troubleshooting, performance optimisation, monitoring.
Ensure that the cloud architecture comply with security best practices, including the ones of the Commission.
Bring specific expertise in many cloud services providers and the full range of services they deliver, with strong experience in designing, deploying, and maintaining projects in those environments.
Ensure that the cloud architecture is implemented at the expected levels of security, performance, reliability and availability.
Investigate and solve complex infrastructure cloud related issues
Ensure that the documentation is always up to date
Define a deployment strategy, make sure that the changes are properly tested before deployment and that the roll-outs happen without negative impacts.
Validate the release plans and communication making sure that stakeholders are aware of the changes to come, what is expected of them, and how the changes impact them.
Ensure a continuous improvement approach, implementing feedback loops to iterate
Successful Candidate
LEVEL OF EDUCATION
Bachelor's or Master's degree
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
- Experience with large, enterprise-level multi-user Information Systems
- Good knowledge of establishing and managing deployment pipeline and release management
- Good knowledge of DevOps container or serverless /orchestration tools
- Good knowledge of conducting DevSecOps in an agile work environment
- Good knowledge of cloud architecture
- Good knowledge of cloud security architecture and security requirements
- Good knowledge of designing and implementing multi-cloud architecture
- Good knowledge of continuous delivery and Application Lifecycle Management tools (JIRA, Git, Bamboo, Nexus, etc.)
- Good knowledge of Monitoring tools (Dynatrace, Prometheus etc.)
- Good knowledge of the Cloud (Aws, Azure, Google, OVH etc.)
- Rapid self-starting capabilities and experience with team working
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- The ability to participate in multi-lingual meetings, ease of communication
- The capability of integrating in an international/multicultural environment
- Excellent team player skills.
- A high degree of discretion and integrity as the applications managed and maintained in DG GROW B3 can contain personal, sensitive or confidential data.
SPECIFIC EXPERTISE
Minimum 15 years' experience on large, enterprise-level multi-user Information Systems.
Minimum 15 years' experience in deployment and release management
Minimum 10 years' experience in DevOps container and/or serverless orchestration tools
Minimum 10 years' experience in Agile methodology
Minimum 10 years' experience with JIRA
Minimum 10 years' experience with Git
Minimum 10 years' experience with Jenkins
Minimum 10 years' experience with Confluence
Minimum 5 years' experience in multi-cloud architecture
Minimum 5 years' experience with Docker
Minimum 5 years' experience with Kubernetes
Minimum 5 years' experience with SonarQube
Minimum 5 years' experience with the monitoring tool Nagios
Minimum 5 years' experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, OVH)
Minimum 5 years' experience with blockchain based infrastructure
CERTIFICATIONS:
Certified DevSecOps Professional (CDP), AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, Microsoft DevOps Engineer Expert, or Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer. or The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) certification.
About the Company
Serco is a leading provider of public services. Our customers are governments or others operating in the public sector. We gain scale, expertise and diversification by operating internationally across five sectors and four geographies: Defence, Space, Justice & Immigration, Transport, Health and Citizen Services, delivered in UK & Europe, North America, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. More information can be found at Serco | Europe
Why should you join Serco ?
- Chance to contribute to innovation in the public services sector
- A company passionate about diversity and inclusion
- Permanent employment with comprehensive Serco Benefits package.
We are diverse and inclusive organisation
At Serco, we see people first and foremost for their performance and potential and we are committed to supporting the needs of all our colleagues. It’s a mix of people from different backgrounds, experiences and opinion that keeps our culture strong and vibrant.
We believe in equity so we strongly encourage applications from a diverse range of candidates. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job are encouraged to apply and demonstrate their abilities in an interview. We also welcome a conversation about any adjustments that would make the interview process more accessible for you. Wherever possible we are open to discussions around flexible working and we operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas.
In the UK we are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader in the government’s scheme and hold the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard; in Belgium we are partner of Diversicom and member of Charter der Vielfalt in Germany.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to reach out to The Serco Europe Recruitment Team
Important
Any offer of employment is contingent upon you providing documents to verify your identity and employment eligibility, as required by law.
Please contact the recruitment team if needed
Data Protection:
For more information on how the personal data is processed, please see the link Data Protection policy here.