DevOps Engineer

Summary Octave BricsCAD is a global technology company creating innovative Computer Aided Design software for worldwide markets. Our products enable the world’s most innovative companies to streamline complex design workflows every day. Our people are active in 80 countries, and our software is available in fifteen languages. We offer innovative solutions for 2D drafting, 3D direct modeling, manufacturing (e.g., sheet metal), surveying and building (BIM) design. Octave BricsCAD powers an ecosystem of over 1,200 market‑specific applications through our developer program. Our focus is to deliver reliable software with friendly licensing and industry-leading direct support — all at a fair price.

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to help us build and modernize our custom CI infrastructure and setup. We moved a few years ago to GitHub so one of your responsibilities is to smoothen the integration of the existing setup and in a second stage to see what improvements we can make to the setup.

You help build out the tools that are used by the rest of our development team to ensure the road from code to product goes as smoothly as possible. This includes updating our custom-built building tool, maintaining and updating CMake configurations, analyzing and implementing solutions to bring the building time down as much as possible, complete the migration of remaining SVN repositories to GitHub.

Next to building out the pipelines and tools you will also monitor and maintain the running setup and intervene in case of any hiccup. You will highlight meaningful trends and insights and track key metrics which will influence our development process and roadmap.

Requirements

• Bachelor, Master or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics or other (applied) sciences (or equivalent through experience)
• 3+ years of professional experience, preferably C++ (at least C++11)
• Ability to design as well as develop complex software
• Being a mentor for junior colleagues
• Excellent verbal/written communication in English
• Eager to dive into modern technologies and tools that may contribute to the further development of our Octave BricsCAD solution as a whole
• Strong knowledge of Git and version control best practices (including legacy tools like SVN)
• Collaborate with Product Managers, tech leads, developers, and other R&D architects

Knowledge of the following is a plus

• C++14/17
• Python
• Containerization
• Make, CMake, or other build systems for C/C++ projects
• Agile methodology
• Static code analysers and code coverage tools

About Octave Octave provides mission-critical software that empowers organizations to make informed decisions across every stage of the asset lifecycle - Design, Build, Operate and Protect - where performance, safety, and reliability are non-negotiable and failure is not an option.

Turning complex operational data into actionable intelligence, Octave connects expertise, real-world conditions and enterprise-scale insight to improve performance, resilience and incident response where it matters most.

Octave has more than 7,000 employees in 45 countries. Learn more at octave.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

Why work for Octave? All in. Always forward. That's the way we do things around here. We put trust in our people because we believe it's the best way to unleash potential, bring ideas to life, and keep moving ahead. And it's why we're committed to creating an environment that's truly supportive, providing you with the resources you need to support your ambitions, no matter who you are or where you are in the world.

Everyone is welcome At Octave, we believe that diverse and inclusive teams are critical to the success of our people and our business. Here, everyone is welcome. As an inclusive workplace, we don't discriminate. In fact, we embrace differences and are fully committed to creating equal opportunities, an inclusive environment, and fairness for all.

Respect is the cornerstone of how we operate, so speak up and be yourself. You're valued here.

DevOps Engineer

Job Location (Short): Ghent, Belgium

Workplace Type: Hybrid

Req Id: 3210

About Octave Octave provides mission-critical software that empowers organizations to make informed decisions across every stage of the asset lifecycle - Design, Build, Operate and Protect - where performance, safety, and reliability are non-negotiable and failure is not an option.

Turning complex operational data into actionable intelligence, Octave connects expertise, real-world conditions and enterprise-scale insight to improve performance, resilience and incident response where it matters most.

Octave has more than 7,000 employees in 45 countries. Learn more at octave.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

Why work for Octave? All in. Always forward. That's the way we do things around here. We put trust in our people because we believe it's the best way to unleash potential, bring ideas to life, and keep moving ahead. And it's why we're committed to creating an environment that's truly supportive, providing you with the resources you need to support your ambitions, no matter who you are or where you are in the world.

Everyone is welcome At Octave, we believe that diverse and inclusive teams are critical to the success of our people and our business. Here, everyone is welcome. As an inclusive workplace, we don't discriminate. In fact, we embrace differences and are fully committed to creating equal opportunities, an inclusive environment, and fairness for all.

Respect is the cornerstone of how we operate, so speak up and be yourself. You're valued here.