Senior DevOps Engineer – Semantic Framework & Knowledge Graphs
Digital
Development
Bachelor, Master
Expert (10+)
- Location
- Ghent, East Flanders
- Work type
- Consultancy
- Work model
- Fulltime, Hybrid
Our client, a global leader in the agricultural sector, is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to support a specialized ontology management platform. This role focuses on deploying, operating, and maintaining a framework that enables the provision of semantified data and digital knowledge across a global digital infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Deploy, migrate, and maintain a central ontology management framework and its integration with diverse research and regulatory systems.
- Execute the migration of all repositories and associated pipelines from GitLab to GitHub.
- Design and implement security concepts to ensure the protection of internal and confidential data structures.
- Automate processes and workflows to optimize component operations and data synchronization with connected systems.
- Collaborate with semantic-web experts and developers within an agile product team to align the platform with business demands.
- Ensure stable platform operations and manage continuous maintenance activities across interconnected components.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in DevOps engineering or a similar infrastructure-focused role.
- You possess strong expertise in cloud platforms with AWS.
- You have extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Ansible.
- You bring practical experience with CI/CD methodologies using both GitLab CI/CD and GitHub Actions.
- You have experience implementing scalable containerized solutions using Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and ArgoCD.
- You possess experience with observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
- You have programming skills in Python and/or Java.
- You bring experience with identity and access management solutions like Keycloak.
- You are proactive, analytical, and possess excellent communication skills.
- You are fluent in English.
Nice to Haves
- Knowledge of Azure.
- Familiarity with semantic web technologies like RDF, OWL, SPARQL, and Cypher.
- Experience with graph databases such as Virtuoso, Fuseki, or Neo4J.
Offer
- Start date: ASAP
- Duration: Until 31/12/2026
- Work regime: Full-time
- Location: Ghent
- Working model: Hybrid
- Contract: open to both permanent employees and freelancers
Thank you for your interest. Unfortunately, job applications are not available in your region. To ensure a high-quality match for our clients and streamline the application process, we have certain regional limitations in place. We value all potential candidates and encourage you to explore opportunities with us in the future.
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