16. CLOUD Operations specialist

Lot 2: specialised external consultancy services in the field of information systems

Nature of the tasks

• Configures, and administers cloud infrastructure and applications.

• Define configuration management and deployment strategies for Cloud resources.

• Ensure availability and stability of cloud production environments.

• Develop, and design software automation and scripts to orchestrate cloud and virtualization technologies with defined scope, schedule and expectations with a focus on Operations.

• Provides subject matter expert technical support to customers using Cloud Platform products, solutions and APIs with a focus on Operations.

• Design and implement DevSecOps capabilities (e.g. observability, continuous monitoring, tractability).

• Work with the development teams in resolving software and other related problems associated with the cloud deployment infrastructure and the code deployed onto platforms such as Database and/or Middleware.

• Manage day-to-day deployment and maintenance activities.

• Analyze and tune information systems performances.

• Security administration and monitoring, in adherence to the security rules imposed by the Commission’s central security service (complemented by local rules where needed); under supervision of the LISO (Local Information Security Officer).

Education : EQF 6

Specific expertise and technologies

• Good knowledge of virtualization technologies.

• Good knowledge in scripting languages for cloud infrastructure automation.

• Experience in administering systems in a virtualized Cloud environment

• Strong understanding wof security, risk and compliance frameworks, disaster recovery, high availability architectures, hardware, operating systems and networking connectivity.

• Good Knowledge of Cloud infrastructure setups from vendors such as, but not limited to, Azure and Amazon.

• Knowledge of Middleware systems.

• Knowledge of messaging services and platforms.

• Knowledge of JEE.

• Knowledge of Linux.

• Knowledge of RDBMS.

Certification and/or Standards

• Not applicable

Skills

• Ability to participate in multi-lingual meetings, ease of communication.

• Capability of integration in an international/multi- cultural environment, rapid self-starting capability and experience in working in team.

• Able to cope with the fast changing technologies

On-call services foreseen for this profile : Yes