Linux System Engineer

Job description

Context

The mission supports the reliability, sustainability, and security of the electricity supply in Belgium and Germany. The project contributes to sustainable and reliable energy infrastructure and the energy transition.

Missions

• Provide advanced operational support for Linux-based IT infrastructure.

  • Ensure stability and performance.

  • Resolve incidents and service requests in a timely fashion.

• Diagnose and resolve OS-level issues.

  • Perform routine maintenance.

  • Implement system changes following established processes and standards.

• Contribute to problem management.

  • Identify root causes.

  • Propose long-term corrective actions.

• Collaborate with other teams to maintain secure, compliant, and well monitored environments.

• Participate in R&D initiatives.

  • Evaluate new technologies.

  • Contribute to solution prototypes.

• Continuously improve automation.

  • Use scripting.

  • Use Infrastructure-as-Code.

  • Use automated workflows to reduce manual effort and increase reliability.

Working Conditions

• Exceptional Berlin travel, maximum 2 days per month.

• Travel expenses are paid by the client.

• End date: 31-12-2027 with possible extension

Requirements

1. Minimum 4 years of experience in IT operations

2. End-to-end lifecycle management of Linux environments

3. Managing containerized, virtualized, and/or physical Linux-based infrastructure in large-scale environments

4. System performance tuning, troubleshooting, and OS-level diagnostics

5. Experience with provisioning, patching, lifecycle management, and Infrastructure-as-Code principles

6. Understanding of CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and configuration deployment

7. Experience with container monitoring and container lifecycle operations

8. Familiarity with ITIL-aligned processes including incident, problem, and change management

9. Skills in monitoring-driven operations, diagnostics, and forensics

10. Installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of databases

11. Basic operational knowledge of network/security platforms and ability to correlate infrastructure and network events for incident analysis

12. Ability to develop automation for monitoring, remediation, and reporting

13. Experience with vendor coordination, support processes, and licensing management

14. Proficiency with tools such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ansible Automation Platform, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Podman, OCI containers, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, VMware, and security tools like Trend Micro Deep Security, ClamAV, Palo Alto, Check Point, F5, InfoBlox

15. Programming/scripting skills in Bash and Python

16. Strong focus on monitoring-driven operations and continuous improvement mindset

17. Ability to work collaboratively with other teams

18. Language proficiency: Dutch or French (full professional or native), English (professional working proficiency), German is a plus

19. For non-EU candidates, valid work and residence permits for Belgium are required