Senior DevOps Engineer — Observability Stack

European Commission — DG CONNECT

POS-0035 · posted 1 month ago

Remote (EU) Senior Freelance Apply by 14 Oct 2026

About the role

This senior DevOps Engineer role sits inside an ongoing engagement for an EU institution client, with Remote (EU) working. The mandate is keeping the CI/CD platform and infrastructure that other teams build on reliable and secure.

What you'll be doing

Operate and evolve the CI/CD platform other teams build releases on
Manage infrastructure as code across environments
Own monitoring, alerting and incident response for the platforms you support
Improve deployment reliability and lead time release over release

Tech environment Kubernetes, Terraform, GitLab CI/Azure DevOps, monitoring (Grafana/Prometheus).

What we're looking for

7+ years of relevant experience in a similar role
Hands-on Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code experience
Comfortable owning production incidents end to end
Comfortable working under a freelance contract

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