System Engineer/ Site Reliability Engineer (Azure / AKS / Istio)

Job Description

Operational / Site Reliability Engineer — Azure & Service Mesh | BrusselsA major Belgian enterprise is running a critical cloud migration and building out its Azure service mesh platform. They're looking for a hands-on engineer to operate, troubleshoot and automate it as part of a team of architects and system engineers.This is a run-and-reliability role, not a build-features role: you'll be the 2nd line behind the platform, helping dev teams onboard to the mesh, debugging what breaks, and automating the setup so the ops team can take it over.What you'll actually do:Support dev teams integrating onto the Azure service mesh (setup, config, troubleshooting)Act as 2nd line support on the middleware / file transfer / Event Hub stack on AzureDebug issues using existing monitoring & logging, trigger the right changes, follow upImprove and automate deployment processes, scripting and toolingGradually hand over the setup to the operational team (train, document, support)What you need (the real filter):5+ years as a system / operational / SRE engineerSolid Azure: AKS, Storage, Event Hub / Event Grid, Monitoring, Security, IdentityHands-on Istio service mesh (deployment, config, management) — this one is non-negotiableArgoCD, Docker, GitHub workflows & actionsScripting: PowerShell, Bicep, BashStrong troubleshooting instincts and clear communicationNice to have: CKA/CKAD or Azure certs, Dynatrace/Splunk, other service mesh (Linkerd, Consul), cloud-native security. If you operate Kubernetes and Istio in production and want a platform role on a serious migration, send me a DM or drop your profile.#SystemEngineer #Azure #Kubernetes #Istio #SRE #DevOps #Brussels #ITContract