Role Description Sovereign IDP Expert. - Design, document, deploy, and maintain stacks on the Cycloid platform. - Develop Proofs of Concept (PoCs) and prototype infrastructure and component solutions. - Design reusable components and make them available to customers. - Assist Project Managers, Service Managers, and Solution Architects in identifying technical solutions to functional or regulatory challenges. - Participate in coordination and project meetings. - Contribute to investigations and analyses as required. - Provide advisory services to customers, helping them select the most suitable cloud provider and cloud services based on their specific use cases. - Deliver new cloud accounts. - Provide support for cloud platforms, Internal Developer Platform (IDP) components, and their integration with DIGIT.B.4 services. - Organize and coordinate the distribution of work among CCoE colleagues. Qualifications - 10 years of experience in designing, configuring, and leading the administration of large AWS or Azure environments. - At least 1 year of experience with one of the European Commission’s sovereign cloud providers: Clever Cloud, STACKIT, Scaleway, or S3NS. - At least 6 months of experience with Cycloid. - Familiarity with at least one of the following sovereign cloud environments: - Azure Sovereign Cloud. - AWS European Sovereign Cloud. - Google Sovereign Cloud. - European cloud providers and initiatives such as GAIA-X. - EU cybersecurity and compliance frameworks. Requirements - The services must be provided by a consultant holding a university degree corresponding to Level 7 of the European Qualifications Framework (EQF) (typically equivalent to a Master's degree or 5 years of higher education). - Alternatively, the consultant may hold a degree corresponding to at least 3 years of higher education after secondary school (EQF Level 6, typically equivalent to a Bachelor's degree), supplemented by 2 years of relevant professional experience for each missing year of education, up to a maximum of 5 years. - Any professional experience used to compensate for missing years of education will be deducted from the candidate’s total professional experience when assessing compliance with the minimum experience requirements listed above. - Degrees obtained before the implementation of the current EQF system will be accepted, provided they have been officially recognized as equivalent by the relevant competent authority. Benefits - The rate offered depends on the candidate’s level, in accordance with the EU Commission's public grading system. Further details are available upon discussion.

• Leading and mentoring a team of DevOps engineers while defining and executing the infrastructure and platform engineering strategy. • Designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure across multiple environments. • Driving Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption and standards using Terraform, CloudFormation, and related technologies. • Owning and improving CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, reliable, and secure software delivery. • Establishing operational excellence practices, including monitoring, observability, incident management, and disaster recovery. • Driving cloud cost optimization, automation initiatives, and platform self-service capabilities. • Influencing architectural decisions and technology strategy for cloud infrastructure and platform services.

• Lead end-to-end architecture of scalable, secure, high-performing DevOps solutions • Define and own the DevOps reference architecture • Develop, evaluate, select, and integrate tools across CI/CD, IaC, container orchestration • Mentor and coach engineers on DevOps methodologies • Design comprehensive observability solutions to ensure platform health • Provide expert-level support for complex infrastructure and SaaS platform issues

• Analyze and optimize existing New Relic dashboards, telemetry, and monitoring setup for the TRAIT application. • Review and refine PagerDuty alert triggers, escalation policies, and incident workflows to ensure only actionable events generate alerts. • Identify obsolete dashboards, alerts, and monitoring components and optimize them based on current operational requirements. • Support DevOps operational activities including monitoring production environments, incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements. • Collaborate with development, infrastructure, and support teams to improve application observability and operational health. • Assist in automation and monitoring integration within CI/CD and cloud environments. • Recommend and implement observability best practices for logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.