# C004843 Senior Engineer (Kubernetes Orchestrator) (NS) - THU 21 May

**Company:** [EMW, Inc.](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/rxTcVwBJTwXzUuxD5bzFUW.md)
**Location:** Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium
**Workplace:** on site
**Employment type:** Contract
**Department:** AAS

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## Description

**Deadline Date:** Thursday 21 May 2026

**Requirement:** Senior Engineer (Kubernetes Orchestrator)

**Location:** Braine-l'Alleud, BE

**Full Time On-Site:** Yes

**Time On-Site:** 100%

**Total Scope of the request (hours):** 1000

**Required Start Date:** 29 June 2026

**End Contract Date:** 31 December 2026

**Required Security Clearance:** NATO SECRET

**Duties & Role:**  

-   Design, build, and evolve highly scalable, secure, and resilient Kubernetes platforms utilizing SUSE Rancher as the central management plane.
-   Handle the end-to-end lifecycle of RKE/RKE2 clusters (provisioning, scaling, patching and upgrading) across hybrid, multi-cloud or bare-metal environments with minimal to zero downtime.
-   Develop and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines and implement GitOps workflows (using tools like Gitlab, ArgoCD or Rancher Fleet) to streamline continuous application delivery.
-   Monitor platform health using tools like Prometheus and Grafana, respond to system alerts and troubleshoot complex containerized workload issues.
-   Enforce security policy's, including network policies, Rancher RBAC configurations and automated container image scanning.
-   Proactively monitor resource utilization (CPU, memory, persistent storage) to right-size clusters, scale nodes dynamically and optimize cloud or on-prem infrastructure.
-   Create and maintain technical documentation, including runbooks and architecture diagrams.
-   Some work outside of normal Office hours may be required.
-   Up to 100 TDY within Belgium per year.

## Requirements

**Skill, Knowledge & Experience:**

-   The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
-   Minimum of 4 years of dedicated, hands-on experience in DevOps or Platform Engineering roles.
-   Over 4 years of sustained experience designing, deploying and maintaining highly available production Kubernetes clusters, heavily utilizing the SUSE Rancher ecosystem.
-   A solid track record of leading complex migrations, moving legacy virtualized applications into containerized, microservice-based architectures.
-   Expertly provision, secure, and lifecycle-manage large-scale, multi-cluster Kubernetes environments using SUSE Rancher UI/API and Rancher Manager.
-   Write modular, reusable code to automate infrastructure provisioning across hybrid environments using Ansible.
-   Architect and maintain sophisticated, zero-downtime deployment pipelines using GitOps principles with Gitlab, ArgoCD or Rancher Fleet.
-   Author/manage advanced Helm charts and manage complex stateful and stateless deployments.
-   Engineer comprehensive monitoring and logging stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) to establish SLIs/SLOs and configure automated remediation. Experience with Rancher Observability is a plus.
-   Develop robust automation scripts in Python or Bash.
-   Rapidly diagnose and resolve high-severity incidents across the entire stack, from kernel-level container issues to complex network routing failures.
-   Comprehensive understanding of the underlying architectures of RKE, RKE2, K8S /K3s and knowing exactly when to apply each distribution.
-   Knowledge of zero-trust models, Rancher RBAC, Pod Security Admissions, container scanning and enforcing governance.
-   CNIs tools (Calico, Cilium, Canal) deep understanding of Software Defined Network and Container Networking, network policies and managing complex Ingress and Service Mesh (Istio) architectures.
-   Expert knowledge of Container Storage Interfaces (CSI), disaster recovery planning and managing highly available storage solutions like SUSE Longhorn.
-   Extensive practical experience operating distributed Kubernetes environments across a mix of bare-metal, on-premises hypervisors (vSphere, Nutanix), and public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP).
-   Experience acting as a technical escalation point, guiding junior team members, and establishing DevOps best practices across development teams.