Description
Task title: Data & Risk infrastructure robustness improvements
Job title: DevOps Engineer
PO number: 4500021752
Location:
- Brussels
- Remote location possible (this over-rules the stipulation in the Framework contract that “The Freelancer undertakes to provide the Services at the premises of the Customer …”)
Role objective:
Help the risk & data team by improvements of risk & data infrastructure robustness (main tasks already defined in Infrastructure review document) and provide operational support for feature development and bug fixing (when needed).
Task objectives:
- Work together with other developer on infrastructure improvements, namely:
- High priority tasks:
- Exposed services
- Docker image security scanning
- Secret management
- Adopt Infrastructure as a code
- Documentation
- Medium priority tasks:
- Authentication services
- Data management (define architecture)
- Provision of new development environments
- Docker image lifecycle
- Application packaging
- Inconsistent Ingress and load balancers errors
- Scalability
- Low priority tasks
- Asynchronous scheduler
- Database migrations
- High priority tasks:
- Operational support in feature development and bug fixing in data & risk infrastructure
Task steps:
- Split data & risk infrastructure improvement tasks with other developer – start from the highest priority.
- Learn how data and risk infrastructure in AREA42 looks like to be ready to provide operational support when it is needed.
- Operational support will be planned flexibly to use more time when the capacity is needed (when other developer is out of office or in peak times when more capacity is needed). Flexibility can be achieved by postponing scheduled infrastructure improvement tasks and by time flexibility of the candidade.
Task deliverables & milestones:
- Continuously deliver tasks defined in Infrastructure review document
- Concrete tasks for operational support will be specified when they appear
Desired experience:
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, especially GCP
- Experience with data engineering
- Good knowledge of Python
- Knowledge of Kubernetes
Salary range:
- 600-800 €/day
- Job subject to contract via proUnity (AREA42 procurement platform), with monthly timesheets and invoicing
- Invoices should be CC to invoices@area42.tech
Work hours, travel requirements, etc.:
- Work up to 73 peopledays for this SoW. As a freelancer, you are free to choose when you wish to work with AREA42 or to take holidays.
- Travels to support the development of the SoW (Up to 10% of the time)
- For administrative simplicity all travel assignments are arranged by AREA42 and also the costs are carried directly by AREA42.
Company description: AREA42
AREA42 vision:
We work in a smooth B2B trade environment empowered by new technologies
At AREA42, we create, innovate, and manage solutions for a fluid, risk-savvy trade environment. We support companies who want to recode trade for the digital era.
Together with disruptors, technologists and visionaries, we build a more fertile trade environment. We co-design ambitious visions. We experiment and launch new solutions. We turn innovations into new growth engines.
We are backed by Credendo, the Export Credit Agency from Belgium and the most trusted leader in trade credit insurance and surety bonds.
AREA42 Focus:
Our current investment thesis revolves around big untapped opportunities related to:
- Platforms and marketplaces,
- SMEs and freelancers,
- Innovative credit data and machine learning,
- Blockchain and other new trade paradigms.
For us, success can be measured in the upgrades we offer to trade ecosystems. We do not see technology as an objective in itself, but we believe it is key to unlock radical improvements for trade and accompanying risk. We take inspiration from diverse universes. We try to hack things, fail sometimes, learn always, and thrive when we co-innovate with partners who share our passion.
AREA42 Structure:
AREA42 is an ecosystem with 2 highly complementary zones: AREA42 innovation lab and AREA42 accelerator. Each zone contributes to a successful AREA42 innovation ecosystem.
- Our innovation lab aims at growing a high-quality network of trusted partners, open to co-innovation and passionate about upgrading trade; it takes a lean start-up approach to experiment with new ideas and incubate them to become validated product concepts with a market fit. The learnings, successes and failures contribute to the feedback-loop and is shared with our innovation community.
- Our accelerator works like a growth factory. We take validated product concepts and turn them into new lines of business. Our accelerator team works with the same powerful means as the best high-growth start-ups in order to scale the most ambitious ventures in trade.
Our first basecamp is Brussels, but our playground is Europe and the world.
AREA42 Culture:
We are a diverse team based on 3 important values: respect, curiosity, and boldness. We believe in mutual trust, entrepreneurship, collective creativity, technological excellence and solid execution. For us, these values are essential to creating high-impact innovations, which we need to deliver successful long-term growth, which will help spread an innovation culture in trade.
Often, we do not know exactly what we are building. However, we always start with an exciting vision and we iterate as fast as possible to confront it with reality. We have faith in the science of experimentation and in the lean start-up approach. We invite and welcome innovators of all kind to contribute and to have an impact. We share together the benefits of our successes.