About this role
Who we are <em style="border:0px solid;margin:0px;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41);font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);"><strong style="border:0px solid;margin:0px;font-weight:bolder;font-family:inherit;">Luxembourg National Data Service (LNDS)</strong> is a brand of PNED G.I.E. an organisation created by the Luxembourg Government, to implement Luxembourg’s strategies in research, innovation, and digitalisation. LNDS enables value creation from secondary use of data, for public and private partners and supports the sharing and re-use of public sector data, in a trustable manner. The LNDS service portfolio includes know-how, capabilities, tools, infrastructure, and data services. Through efficient & responsible use of data and improving the secondary use of data, LNDS will support the acceleration of economic, ecological, and societal transitions.</em><br style="border:0px solid;margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41);font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);"><a href="http://www.lnds.lu/" title="http://www.lnds.lu/" style="border:0px solid;margin:0px;color:inherit;text-decoration:underline;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);"><em style="border:0px solid;margin:0px;font-family:inherit;">www.lnds.lu</em></a><em style="border:0px solid;margin:0px;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41);font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);"> | </em><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/luxembourg-national-data-service-lnds/" title="https://www.linkedin.com/company/luxembourg-national-data-service-lnds/" style="border:0px solid;margin:0px;color:inherit;text-decoration:underline;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);"><em style="border:0px solid;margin:0px;font-family:inherit;">LNDS on LinkedIn</em></a> Purpose of the job / project <p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">Play a key role in designing, operating, and continuously improving the technology platforms that support LNDS' growing portfolio of European and nationally funded initiatives in the fields of health data, artificial intelligence, data governance, and digital public infrastructure.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">As part of a dynamic agile team, you will contribute to the delivery of secure, scalable, reliable, and compliant services supporting complex multi-stakeholder environments. You will help establish modern DevOps practices, automate infrastructure and operations, and ensure the resilience and performance of critical digital platforms throughout their lifecycle.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">You will be part of the Technology team, working closely with data specialists, AI experts, software engineers, and governance teams to deliver impactful digital solutions that advance innovation, interoperability, and trusted data sharing at national and European levels.</p><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;display:inline;">As a Senior DevOps engineer, you will design IT solutions and integrate new services with the existing data-centric infrastructures. You will be a key actor of continuous improvement and innovation within the organisation, focusing on developing, deploying and maintaining internal and external tooling, and automating processes to enable the company to establish and maintain a data-driven culture. You will serve as a senior technical partner and mentor for less experienced colleagues. You will be part of the Technology and Infrastructure team.</span> What you will do <ul><li><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">Design and deploy internal and external IT services for the company</p></li><li><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">Contribute to data driven company culture</p></li><li><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">Identify and deploy data related IT services</p></li><li><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">Design, configure, and manage operational services of the Platform</p></li><li><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">Setup tooling and automation around DataOps and DevSecOps</p></li><li><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">Apply security- and privacy-by-design practices and constantly improve our security posture</p></li><li><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">Serve as a technical expert in European Union (EU) projects</p></li><li><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">Contribute to establish high quality agile deployment practices</p></li><li><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">Write and maintain related documentation</p></li><li><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">Be responsible for IT services continuity in terms of availability, scalability and security</p></li><li><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">Monitor performance and troubleshoot issues and outages/incidents</p></li><li><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">Provide technical consultancy to external parties regarding e.g. best practices of data exchange</p></li><li><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">Represent the Platform in various meetings, conferences, and gatherings with the respective stakeholders.</p></li></ul><br> Who you are <ul><li><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">MSc or PhD in a scientific, technological, or engineering discipline related to computer science, information technology, or computing</p></li><li><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">5 to 10 years of relevant experience with programming, deployment, and maintenance of IT services, such as secure data exchange, data management, web applications, as well as Linux / Windows systems and web servers administration</p></li><li><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">Experience in implementing change management processes</p></li><li><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">Working knowledge in more than one technological stack, covering backend to frontend</p></li><li><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">Working Knowledge of security- and privacy-by-design principles</p></li><li><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">Expert knowledge of one containerization engine, such as Docker</p></li><li><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">Strong knowledge in at least one programming language, such as Python, Java</p></li><li><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">Good knowledge in at least one configuration management platform, such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible or SaltStack</p></li><li><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">Experience with database systems, both SQL and NoSQL</p></li><li><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">Proven experience in GitOps and setting up CI / CD pipelines</p></li><li><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">Good knowledge of git vcs, git platforms and IAAS tooling (e.g. Terraform)</p></li><li><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">Expert in VM orchestration, deployment and administration (Linux / Windows)</p></li><li><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">Strong Knowledge of back-end (Python/Javascript/Java) and front-end-related (HTML/CSS/SASS) programming languages, and algorithmic</p></li><li><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">Proven experience with static page generators (e.g. Jekyll, Hugo)</p></li><li><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">Working knowledge of authentication protocols like OpenID Connect, SAML or LDAP/AD, and solutions like Keycloak</p></li><li><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the abilities to well articulate the technical needs and to work within an interdisciplinary setting and communicate with external partners</p></li><li><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">Creative, solution oriented with good analytical skills and a mindset for quality</p></li><li><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">You have critical thinking, you are adaptable, flexible and you are able to accept and manage changes in the workplace</p></li><li><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">You have cultural intelligence and diversity consciousness</p></li><li><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">Excellent communication skills in English</p></li><li><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;text-transform:none;">Working knowledge of one of Luxembourg’s official languages (French, German or Luxembourgish) is a plus.</p></li></ul>