DevOps Coach – Brussels, Belgium

DevOps Coach – Brussels, Belgium – 9 months Contract – competitive daily rate

Our client, an established IT Services organization is recruiting for a contract DevOps Coach, based in Brussels, Belgium. It is a 9 months’ contract. This role requires frequent travelling to meetings in Paris and Ghent (minimum once per week).

The DevOps coach will help the product development teams to adopt best practices for developing, testing, deploying and releasing applications. In this role the DevOps coach must have an end–to–end SDLC view, strong technical and coaching skills.

Main functionalities of the DevOps Coach role:
Coach agile development teams
• Improve deliverables of the team by training them on, and assisting them to implement, best practices regarding coding and testing, like TDD, clean code, behavior driven development, etc.
• Run development katas
• Assist with implementation of API/Contract First testing
• Setup and support automated Build & Deploy facilities for the teams
Work together with the team and other coaches to improve the way of working:
• Help to identify and fix key pain points in the process.
• Facilitate the relationship with the tools teams. Help the tool(s) team to understand what the development teams need. Help the development team using the tools available to them in the correct way.
The existing platform covers:
• Continuous build / integration
• Automated deployment
• Code scanning tools (quality / security)
• Testing tools: unit testing, test automation, service virtualization, performance testing, test management
• Collaboration tools
• Release Management
• Workstation development tools
The main development platforms are:
• Java / IOS / Android / Javascript

Key Requirements of the DevOps Coach:
• Very good knowledge of English and French / Dutch
• Educated to Master degree level or equivalent by experience
• Thorough experience working in or with Agile development teams
• Strong coaching experience
• Good understanding of the SDLC
• Experience in implementation of continuous build, integration and deployment systems
• Experience in the administration, setup and maintenance of Jenkins as continuous build and integration platform
• Experience in Java development and build using Maven
• Experience with source code (SVN/Git) and artefact repositories (Nexus)
• Experience with scripting languages for automation
• Experience in code scanning tools (Sonar / Fortify) is a plus
• Experience in mobile development tools for Android and IOS platforms is a plus
• Experience with containers (Docker/Kubernetes) is a plus
• Experience on Windows platforms
• Experience on Linux platforms
• Experience in large IT organization – is preferred
• Team player
• Quick self-starter, pro-active attitude
• Quick learner
• Good Communication and Influencing skills
• Good analytical and synthesis skills
• Autonomy, commitment and perseverance
• Ability to work in a dynamic and multi-cultural environment
• Flexible, accurate & control minded.
• Assertive and result-oriented

For further information on this excellent DevOps Coach role please email CV to the address shown.

Key Requirements of the DevOps Coach:
• Very good knowledge of English and French / Dutch
• Educated to Master degree level or equivalent by experience
• Thorough experience working in or with Agile development teams
• Strong coaching experience
• Good understanding of the SDLC
• Experience in implementation of continuous build, integration and deployment systems
• Experience in the administration, setup and maintenance of Jenkins as continuous build and integration platform
• Experience in Java development and build using Maven
• Experience with source code (SVN/Git) and artefact repositories (Nexus)
• Experience with scripting languages for automation
• Experience in code scanning tools (Sonar / Fortify) is a plus
• Experience in mobile development tools for Android and IOS platforms is a plus
• Experience with containers (Docker/Kubernetes) is a plus
• Experience on Windows platforms
• Experience on Linux platforms
• Experience in large IT organization – is preferred
• Team player
• Quick self-starter, pro-active attitude
• Quick learner
• Good Communication and Influencing skills
• Good analytical and synthesis skills
• Autonomy, commitment and perseverance
• Ability to work in a dynamic and multi-cultural environment
• Flexible, accurate & control minded.
• Assertive and result-oriented

For further information on this excellent DevOps Coach role please email CV to the address shown.

Competitive rate.
Opportunity to work for a prestigious financial institution.