Job Description

Joining KEYES means giving purpose to your talent.

Are you looking for an environment where technology is not an end in itself, but a lever to build a sustainable future? At KEYES, we are not just looking for technical expertise; we are looking for people who share our values.

Do you want to continue your career and grow within one of Belgium’s leading IT companies?

Join KEYES as a DevOps Engineer – Private Cloud!

KEYES supports private and public organizations in Belgium and across Europe in their digital transformation by combining business expertise, technological mastery, and a long-term vision.

We support large enterprises, the public sector, healthcare organizations, and SMEs in all their digital challenges Infrastructure & Cloud Solutions, Cybersecurity Solutions, Business Software Solutions, Mainframe Solutions, Data & AI Solutions, Advisory Solutions, and Staffing Solutions.

More information: www.keyes.eu

THE BACKGROUND

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer specializing in VMware vSphere and VMware Aria (formerly vRealize) designs, automates, and operates a modern private/hybrid cloud platform.

The role focuses on delivering Infrastructure as a Service capabilities to internal product and application teams by standardizing and automating provisioning, configuration, lifecycle management, and observability across a VMware-based platform

YOUR MISSION

As a DevOps Engineer – Private Cloud , your mission will maintain reusable automation (blueprints, workflows, pipelines, IaC modules), integrate platform services into CI/CD and self-service portals, and ensure the platform meets enterprise requirements for availability, security, compliance, performance, and cost/capacity efficiency.

Your responsibilities will be as follows:

• Design, automate, and operate a secure, scalable, and reliable VMware-based private cloud platform.
• Enable fast, compliant self-service provisioning through standardized blueprints, catalog items, and automation workflows.
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, PowerCLI, and Git, ensuring version control and governance.
• Develop and integrate automation and workflows using VMware Aria Automation and Aria Orchestrator.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and API integrations with enterprise systems (ITSM, CMDB, identity, monitoring).
• Ensure platform reliability and performance through monitoring, capacity planning, lifecycle management, and proactive remediation (SRE approach).
• Support incident and problem management with root cause analysis and automation-driven prevention.
• Integrate and operate container platforms (e.g., Red Hat OpenShift) within the VMware ecosystem, promoting GitOps practices.
• Enforce security-by-design principles, including RBAC, hardening, and audit-ready controls.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (architecture, infrastructure, network, security, and applications) to deliver seamless platform services.

YOUR TEAM

You will be joining the Private Cloud team, whose mission is to operate, secure, and continuously improve KEYES’ private cloud platforms by combining strong operational excellence with automation and DevOps practices, enabling reliable and modern cloud services for KEYES clients.

The team comprises over 30 colleagues specialized in various technologies and is part of the Cloud Infrastructure as a Service department.

OUR OFFER

• A DevOps Engineer position rich in responsibilities and challenges.

• A team of enthusiastic, professional colleagues in which there is an excellent atmosphere and where expertise is shared.

• Tools and infrastructure that are consistently at the forefront of innovation.

• Personalized career support to help you with your development.

• Many training opportunities and certifications.

• A company with a friendly working atmosphere which is dynamic and oriented towards innovation.

• Fun times – a food truck, barbecue, after-work events, family day!

• Complete salary package.

• Teleworking opportunities (up to 3 days a week).

Requirements

YOUR PROFILE

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

• Mid-to-senior level with 5+ years in VMware infrastructure

• 2–5+ years in DevOps, automation, and Infrastructure as Code

• Strong hands-on experience delivering automation and platform solutions

• Solid experience with vSphere/ESXi, vCenter, and enterprise virtualization operations

• IaC & Tooling: Terraform , Ansible, Git, CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins), and secrets management.

• Operating Systems: Linux and Windows Server administration

Technical knowledge to be developed together:

• VMware certifications : VCF, VCP, VCAP (DCV or Cloud Management & Automation).

• OpenShift/Kubernetes experience: cluster operations, day-2 ops, security context, RBAC, operators.

• ITSM integration experience including automation around tickets/requests and CMDB.

• Familiarity with enterprise network/security concepts: firewalls, proxies, certificates/PKI, IAM/SSO.

• Exposure to SRE practices: SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, postmortems, automation-driven reliability.

Soft skills:

• Agile mindset, comfortable in fast-paced and iterative environments

• Strong collaboration skills with cross-functional teams

• Clear and effective communication

• Ability to prioritize and adapt quickly to change

• Team player with a continuous improvement mindset

Do you recognise yourself in this description?

Do you want to learn more?

Apply now! You will be contacted shortly

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OUR RECRUITMENT PROCESS

Our recruitment process is simple, fast and transparent:

KEYWORDS

Private Cloud – DevOps Engineer – VMware – IaC – vRA - vRO

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