Cloud Native MLOps Engineer - Finance Sector - Leuven - Freelance / CDIact digital

Our client is seeking Senior Cloud Native OPS Engineers with strong hands‑on experience in cloud engineering, automation and robust infrastructure design. In this role, you will work on building, configuring and optimizing cloud‑native environments, with a focus on AWS, Infrastructure as Code and operational excellence. You will support critical systems, collaborate with cross‑functional teams, and contribute to innovation in cloud and AI‑driven environments.

Cloud Engineering & Automation

• Configure and manage AWS services, including networking, gateways, landing zones, Lambda and container services.
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Translate business or technical requirements into cloud architecture designs.
• Analyze design options, evaluate trade-offs, and validate compliance.
• Deploy cloud infrastructure and ensure alignment with defined requirements.

Operations & Performance

• Resolve complex incidents and perform root cause analysis.
• Optimize systems for performance, cost efficiency, evolution and scalability.
• Ensure reliability of cloud services and automation pipelines.
• Participate in on‑call rotations for supported systems.

Innovation & Governance

• Propose improvements to existing systems, processes or services.
• Maintain and update technical documentation.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and technology evolution.

Must-Have Skills

Technical

• API gateway / Application Programming Interfaces
• Generative AI & Large Language Models (LLM) awareness
• Python
• Terraform
• Docker
• GitHub / BitBucket
• AWS services including:
  • CI/CD tooling
  • Lambda
  • S3
  • Kinesis Stream
  • SageMaker
• Apache Airflow
• Apache Spark

Languages

• Fluent English

Soft Skills

• Strong collaboration
• Effective communication

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Dutch language 
• MLflow