System Engineer

An international company active in the Information Technology sector is currently looking to hire a System Engineer to join their offices in Brussels. Thanks to your experience in System Administration, you will be the perfect addition to the company and will have an essential role in the setup of techniques necessary for the development of the company.

Your main responsibilities as the new System Engineer will include:

• Co-responsible for integrating and automating application deployment on infrastructure platforms and on public and private cloud services
• Maintain close contact with other IT stakeholders - domain specialists, architects, and business analysts - to meet their needs, and implement the most appropriate solution in collaboration with your colleagues
• Participate proactively in the system, network and security team on the operational management of the platforms, to prevent and solve the potential security and performance issues, and to ensure the availability of the systems
• Design, write, document, and deliver automated processes to improve cross-system service availability, scalability, security, and performance
• Automate the installation and upkeep of build and deploy tools and dependencies
• Evaluate current build, release and hosting infrastructure and implement enhancements as required
• Define processes, techniques, architectures, and practices to ensure the monitoring, reliability and performance of systems and services and take proactive steps to avoid downtime
• Analyse live performance and stability issues and implement improvements to prevent their recurrence
• Write, modify, integrate, test, and maintain software automation scripts according to the industrial best practices and the ones defined within the group

Your profile:

• You have at least a bachelor’s degree, preferably in computer science
• You have at least 3 years relevant work experience in System Administration, as well as relevant experience in Help Desk
• You have a working knowledge of Windows and Unix/Linux system administration and security best practices
• You master typical scripting and deployment tools such as PowerShell, SCCM, Jenkins, Confluence, Python…
• You gained hands-on experience with at least one of the major public cloud vendors such as AWS, Azure, Google.
• You are familiar with configuration, change - and application lifecycle management concepts and best practices for software integration and implementation
• You are fluent in English and French/Dutch

Your strengths:

• You can work effectively with people outside your team
• You can adapt to a fast paced work environment
• You are highly self-directed and comfortable with dealing with ambiguity in the pursuit of an overall goal

If this sounds like you, and the idea of joining an international and dynamic environment and have a real impact speaks to you, then apply for this System Engineer position.

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