A job at Proximus? You’ll find that everything revolves around the idea ‘Think Possible’. This means: we always assume that something is possible, even if it seems impossible. Well, especially so, actually. Call it a way of thinking that involves being open to a world of digital solutions that make our lives easier. And our way of working smarter.
Context
We are a Telecom & ICT company operating in Belgium and on the international markets, providing services to consumers, businesses, and the public sector.
Our advanced interconnected fixed and mobile networks offer access anywhere and anytime to digital services and data, as well as to a broad offering of multimedia content. We invest in future-proof networks and innovative solutions, creating the foundations for sustainable growth.
We have huge digital ambition implementing state of the art technology to achieve our objective. You will drive the architecture technology choice and define the path for a successful implementation.
Your role will be to focus and support in the migration process and roadmap along within the Digital Architecture team. You will review and assess cloud migration approach, potential risks, mitigation, etc.
As architect, operating in agile context, you are in contact with multiple stakeholders: network, product and services, process experts, IT experts, latest digital technologies, AI... You drive those interactions & help assess functional & non-functional requirements, cost versus benefit…
Role and Responsibilities
You design software solutions from the ground up, making high-level decisions about each stage of the process and leading a team of engineers to create the final product.
You provide the development team with architectural blueprints to follow.
You guide and assist the development team throughout the process.
You troubleshoot and help resolving issues with coding or design.
You will select a technology stack and deployment methods.
You will capture migration requirements.
You assist with creating cloud migration strategies, defining delivery architecture, creating the migration plans, designing the orchestration plans, and more. Assist in creating and executing of migration run books.
You use troubleshooting skills and work closely with operations, support, engineering and/or other functions to ensure successful migrations.
You define and follow the migration playbook with emphasis on capturing the advantages of operating in the cloud for migrated applications.
You partner with Cloud Engineering, Cloud Ops, and other teams in executing migration projects to ensure minimal risk and business disruption.
You provide deep cloud migration expertise covering infrastructure, application architectures, cloud capabilities, security, etc.
You will be in partnership with sector teams, review and identify candidate applications for cloud migration based on pre-defined application rationalization output of categorized applications
You will ensure migrated applications comply with required security and controls requirements
You will communicate cloud migration program health to key stakeholders including senior leadership as needed
Your Profile
You have a bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, engineering, or related field
You have demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization
You will solve highly complex problems across teams
You are a cutting edge innovator who continuously studies new technologies and functionality and is involved in projects that push the capabilities of existing technologies
You have some years of relevant experience including cloud Infrastructure principles and methodologies with at least five years of experience supporting application development and software engineering functions
You have excellent understanding of design patterns and architectural styles
You have experience with private, hybrid or public cloud technology
You have experience managing container orchestration tools such as PCF, Kubernetes, Mesos, Docker swarm or equivalent
You have solid understanding of Containerization and Virtualization technologies such as VMWare, docker
You have solid understanding of networking concepts (BGP, DNS, Load Balancing, firewall and core Internet), including CDN
You have experience working with Azure DevOps or similar tools for tracking, developing, deploying software
You have familiarity with functional operations of server, storage, and network functions
You are detail-oriented with the ability to rapidly learn and take advantage of new concepts, business models, and technologies.
You have strong soft skills, including attention to detail, problem-solving and communication skills
You are proficient at collaboration and working with members of a team.
You have ability to work with virtual teams (remote work locations); lead team of technical resources (employees and contractors) based in multiple locations
Technology
Java Spring Boot Microservices
NestJs Typescript Microservices
Spring Cloud (Netflix) Ecosystem
Apollo GraphQL broker
Java WCMS (Magnolia CMS)
Event Broker (Kafka)
CouchBase (DB & Sync Gateway)
Redis
Oracle
HTML5/Angular
ReactNative
Electron
RedHat OpenShift
CI/CD Pipelines, ArgoCD, Tekton, Jenkins
Azure
Contentful headless CMS
Mendix low code platform
Grafana, Prometheous
GitLab, GitHub
SonarQube
Dynatrace
Splunk
What do we offer you?
We are 100% Belgian. So we make decisions in three languages. And all at the same time if you like!
We are open to everyone: M, W, X, and in fact all the other letters of the alphabet.
We encourage personal growth. At the Proximus Academy, you won't even want to miss a session.
We are, of course, committed to sustainability. What else did you think?
We firmly believe that working together is important, but that having fun together is even more so. That is why we regularly organise fun activities. (Please let us know if you have a talent for playing Santa Claus!)
We believe in responsibility. Also in yours. For example, you can take it to launch your own initiatives.
We put our customers first. And because we are all customers somewhere, you already know what that means. That’s good.
And the ever-important work-life balance? We keep it in the right place.
Naturally we have a competitive salary package for you. Click (or apply) to discover what else we offer.
