Senior Cloud Native OPS Engineer

15/01/2026

Our client is looking for a Senior Cloud Native OPS Engineer

Description

As a Cloud (ML)Ops Engineer, you’ll work at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and machine learning operations. Together with your team, you’ll help build a reliable, scalable, and secure platform that supports data scientists and analysts throughout their entire workflow.
This includes:

  • hosting a multi-user Jupyter environment and a cloud IDE;
  • providing frameworks for training, storing, serving, and monitoring custom models, primarily for high throughput batch processing;
  • exposing models via APIs for low latency request-response use cases;
  • enabling Generative AI initiatives.

Your responsibilities include

  • Designing and building cloud-native platform services for AI models and data pipelines.
  • Collaborating with colleagues and stakeholders across countries to develop technical solutions.
  • Managing infrastructure using tools like Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes on AWS.
  • Automating workflows for data processing and model lifecycle management (Airflow, Spark, and Python)
  • Ensuring platform reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency.
  • Supporting colleagues in using the platform, including onboarding and troubleshooting.
  • Contributing to the evolution of our MLOps practices.

Profile

As a senior Cloud Native OPS Engineer, you have over 5 years of technical system expertise to perform technical cloud engineering services :

  • You configure AWS services and work with Terraform scripting (infrastructure as a code), AWS networking/gateways, AWS Landing Zone setup, lambda and container services;
  • You evaluate and translate requirements into design;
  • You evaluate design benefits and trade-offs;
  • You validate design compliance and support deployment of the design to ensure the requirements are met;
  • You use development tools to efficiently solve technical or business challenges, incl. technology evolution, capacity management, and performance optimization;
  • You innovate to present new ideas which improve an existing system/process/service;
  • You maintain knowledge of existing technology documents via technical writing;
  • You perform (complex) incident resolution and root cause analyses;
  • On duty call for the systems you are responsible for, can be required.

What do we expect from you?

You have a strong interest in cloud, data and AI, and eager to learn about new developments in the field.

  • Education or experience: Master’s degree in ICT, Engineering Sciences or Business Engineering with a focus on Informatics, or equivalent experience.

Technical skills

  • Proficient in Python and the broader data science ecosystem.
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS).
  • Familiar with Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Skilled in infrastructure as code (Terraform).
  • Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
  • Knowledge of big data tools such as Spark.

Next to a proven experience in system software and cloud infrastructure, you have the following core competences : Adaptive, Analytical thinking, Collaborating, Flexible, IT Infrastructure, Result driven, Software development.

Job specifications

ID: 12269

Duration: 01/02/2026 - 31/12/2026

Location: Antwerp

Type: Freelance

Joël De Ben

IT Recruitment Consultant
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