DevOps & Infrastructure Automation Specialist - EU Institution Luxembourg

Are you looking for a challenging opportunity and want to take advantage of a great job to give new inpulse to your career? This offer is for you. In order to support one of our clients, a large and famous European Public Institution in Luxembourg, we are looking for a DevOps & Infrastructure Automation Specialist. 

EKXEL IT Services, is a European leader in IT engineering, high-tech consulting and IT services. We offer a unique blend of expertise and support major European groups with international vocation to implement and succeed in their project to transform and modernize their information systems. 

In this role, you will drive the modern transformation of how hybrid infrastructure and enterprise applications are provisioned, deployed, and managed across on-premises and multi-cloud environments. Partnering closely with core infrastructure and operations teams, you will design robust, end-to-end automation pipelines while enforcing the governance, security, and quality controls required for critical institutional platforms.

Key Responsibilities

1. Automation Design & Modernisation

• Modern Infrastructure as Code: Architect, develop, and maintain automation using Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), OpenTofu, and Terraform.

• IaC Harmonisation: Assist in migrating legacy CloudFormation and Azure Bicep configurations toward Terraform/OpenTofu to standardize provisioning across cloud and on-premises zones.

• Workflow Standardisation: Build modular, reusable Ansible roles and playbooks to eliminate fragmented scripts and repetitive operational tasks.

• CI/CD & GitOps: Design, enhance, and secure GitLab CI/CD pipelines tailored to multi-tiered, restricted infrastructure environments.

• ITSM Integration: Automate interactions with ServiceNow for automated CMDB synchronization, change execution, and self-service catalog requests.

• Container & Hybrid Systems: Support provisioning and configuration workflows across Linux, Windows, virtualization stacks, and container platforms (Red Hat OpenShift / Kubernetes).

• Observability & Operations: Ensure reliable execution tracking, centralized logging, task scheduling, and Tier-3 automation troubleshooting.

2. Automation Governance & Security Standards

• Engineering Best Practices: Establish and uphold clear standards for code quality, repository structures, automated testing, and comprehensive documentation.

• Quality Gates & Reviews: Integrate peer reviews, linting, and approval workflows directly into deployment pipelines.

• Security & Compliance: Ensure all automated executions strictly comply with organizational security policies, access controls, and least-privilege secrets management.

• Traceability & Auditing: Guarantee comprehensive audit logs linking automated tasks to official change requests and configuration items.

• Continuous Improvement: Collaborate with project managers and technical stakeholders to identify bottlenecks and optimize deployment speed and platform reliability.

Requirements

• What do you need to succeed in this position?

• Core Track Record: Proven hands-on experience in platform engineering, infrastructure automation, or DevOps, built upon a solid systems administration foundation.

• Configuration Management: Deep expertise with Ansible, ideally within enterprise setups like Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) or AWX.

• Infrastructure as Code: Strong command of Terraform or OpenTofu and declarative cloud provisioning.

• CI/CD & Version Control: Extensive experience configuring GitLab CI/CD pipelines and working with Git / GitOps methodologies.

• Scripting: Proficient in scripting for system automation (Python, Bash, or PowerShell).

• Hybrid Systems Knowledge: Familiarity with enterprise on-premises platforms as well as public cloud architectures (AWS and/or Azure).

• Security Mindset: Practical grasp of secure automation principles (credential vaulting, role-based access control, security baselines).

• Analytical & Collaborative: Strong analytical and troubleshooting mindset, able to align operational realities with high-level architecture guidelines.

Desirable / Nice-to-Have

• Hands-on integration experience with ServiceNow REST APIs, Service Catalogues, and CMDB workflows.

• Familiarity with ITIL-based IT Service Management (specifically Change & Configuration Management).

• Practical exposure to Red Hat OpenShift / Kubernetes container deployments.

• Experience with migration projects from Azure Bicep, AWS CloudFormation, or Puppet.

• Knowledge of centralized scheduling and monitoring tools (e.g., Rundeck, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).

• Virtualization knowledge (VMware vSphere or Nutanix AHV) and software-defined networking concepts.

Our offer:

A particularly attractive salary package, with many additional benefits, to attract the best of you. A professional and stimulating work environment in the field of telecommunications. Multiple career opportunities within a changing group, advanced training in new technologies, rich and recognized expertise. Your application will be treated with confidentiality. We would be very happy to organize a first appointment to talk to you about this opportunity and consider your next career development. Send us your CV.