Description
Task title: Data & Risk infrastructure robustness improvements
Job title: DevOps Engineer
PO number: 4500023135
Location:
- Brussels
- Remote location possible (this over-rules the stipulation in the Framework contract that “The Freelancer undertakes to provide the Services at the premises of the Customer …”)
Role objective:
DevOps Engineer will play a critical role in innovating and maintaining the company’s data & risk infrastructure. This involves development, cloud architecture design, DevOps practices, and the training and implementation of AI/ML models, specifically focusing on enhancing risk assessment and fraud detection capabilities. The DevOps Engineer will also provide operational support for the data & risk infrastructure, including feature development and bug fixing.
Task objectives:
- Innovate data & risk infrastructure
- Development
- Cloud architecture
- Devops
- Train and implement AI models
- Operational support in feature development and bug fixing in data & risk infrastructure
Task steps:
- Complete remaining risk & data infrastructure improvement projects and ensure the ongoing maintenance and optimization of the infrastructure.
- Develop new features and implement automation within the risk & data infrastructure to improve efficiency and scalability in cooperation with other relevant team members.
- Research and assess AI/ML solutions, particularly LLMs, that can be effectively integrated into the existing risk & data infrastructure to enhance risk management and fraud detection capabilities.
- Train and implement AI/ML models to serve as a recommendation engine for manual verifications and automated fraud checks within underwriting strategies in cooperation with other relevant team members.
- Develop robust pipelines to ensure the secure, stable, and efficient performance of AI/ML models in production in cooperation with other relevant team members.
- Develop visualization tools to display the results of cluster analysis, aiding in manual verification processes in cooperation with other relevant team members.
- Provide operational support, including feature development and bug fixing, for the data & risk infrastructure
Task deliverables & milestones:
- Continuously deliver tasks based on prioritized needs and project requirements.
- Address and resolve operational support tasks as they arise.
Desired experience:
Atypical profiles often work better for atypical jobs, and it is hard to predict the multiple winning skill combinations of the best candidates for the job. Moreover, we prefer team culture over individual performance. This being said, here are a few qualities we may be looking for:
- Successful experience as DevOps engineer in a startup environment. Team player.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, especially GCP
- Experience with data engineering
- Strong Python programming skills
- Knowledge of Kubernetes
- Good understanding of AI/ML models, specifically Large Language Models
- Highest level of professional and intellectual integrity. Trust matters.
- Can handle success and failure, positive feedback as well as critique.
- 80/20, structured self-starter with strong drive.
- Understanding of B2B trade is a plus, of trade credit insurance is a nice-to-have.
Salary range:
- 250-900 €/day
- Job subject to contract via proUnity (AREA42 procurement platform), with monthly timesheets and invoicing
- Invoices should be CC to invoices@area42.tech
Work hours, travel requirements, etc.:
- Work up to 69 peopledays for this SoW. As a freelancer, you are free to choose when you wish to work with AREA42 or to take holidays.
- Travels to support the development of the SoW (Up to 5% of the time)
- For administrative simplicity all travel assignments are arranged by AREA42 and also the costs are carried directly by AREA42.
Company description: AREA42
AREA42 vision:
We work in a smooth B2B trade environment empowered by new technologies
At AREA42, we create, innovate, and manage solutions for a fluid, risk-savvy trade environment. We support companies who want to recode trade for the digital era.
Together with disruptors, technologists and visionaries, we build a more fertile trade environment. We co-design ambitious visions. We experiment and launch new solutions. We turn innovations into new growth engines.
We are backed by Credendo, the Export Credit Agency from Belgium and the most trusted leader in trade credit insurance and surety bonds.
AREA42 Focus:
Our current investment thesis revolves around big untapped opportunities related to:
- Platforms and marketplaces,
- SMEs and freelancers,
- Innovative credit data and machine learning,
- Blockchain and other new trade paradigms.
For us, success can be measured in the upgrades we offer to trade ecosystems. We do not see technology as an objective in itself, but we believe it is key to unlock radical improvements for trade and accompanying risk. We take inspiration from diverse universes. We try to hack things, fail sometimes, learn always, and thrive when we co-innovate with partners who share our passion.
AREA42 Structure:
AREA42 is an ecosystem with 2 highly complementary zones: AREA42 innovation lab and AREA42 accelerator. Each zone contributes to a successful AREA42 innovation ecosystem.
- Our innovation lab aims at growing a high-quality network of trusted partners, open to co-innovation and passionate about upgrading trade; it takes a lean start-up approach to experiment with new ideas and incubate them to become validated product concepts with a market fit. The learnings, successes and failures contribute to the feedback-loop and is shared with our innovation community.
- Our accelerator works like a growth factory. We take validated product concepts and turn them into new lines of business. Our accelerator team works with the same powerful means as the best high-growth start-ups in order to scale the most ambitious ventures in trade.
Our first basecamp is Brussels, but our playground is Europe and the world.
AREA42 Culture:
We are a diverse team based on 3 important values: respect, curiosity, and boldness. We believe in mutual trust, entrepreneurship, collective creativity, technological excellence and solid execution. For us, these values are essential to creating high-impact innovations, which we need to deliver successful long-term growth, which will help spread an innovation culture in trade.
Often, we do not know exactly what we are building. However, we always start with an exciting vision and we iterate as fast as possible to confront it with reality. We have faith in the science of experimentation and in the lean start-up approach. We invite and welcome innovators of all kind to contribute and to have an impact. We share together the benefits of our successes.