System Engineer 

Start Date: 01/08/2026

End Date: 31/12/2026

Location: Brussel

Responsibilities:

• Provide advanced operational support for Linux-based IT infrastructure, focusing on system monitoring, observability, and reliability.
• Ensure platform stability, performance, and availability through proactive monitoring, alerting, and continuous analysis of system health.
• Resolve incidents and service requests promptly, using monitoring data and diagnostics to identify and address OS-level issues.
• Perform routine maintenance and implement system changes in line with established processes and standards.
• Design, implement, and continuously improve monitoring solutions, including metrics collection, logging, alerting, and dashboards.
• Conduct root cause analysis based on monitoring data, logs, and system behavior, proposing and implementing long-term corrective actions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure systems are secure, compliant, and effectively monitored end-to-end.
• Participate in R&D activities, evaluating new technologies and observability tooling, and contributing to solution prototypes.
• Drive automation through scripting and Infrastructure-as-Code to enhance monitoring coverage, reduce manual intervention, and increase platform reliability.

Requirements:

• Fluent in English and French or Dutch.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in IT operations, managing containerized, virtualized, and/or physical Linux-based infrastructure in large-scale environments.
• Proven experience in the design, implementation, and operation of monitoring and alerting solutions.
• Hands-on experience with PRTG is strongly preferred.
• Solid understanding of metrics collection, log aggregation, and alerting strategies.
• Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments and enterprise tooling.
• Strong experience with Ansible Automation Platform and familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code principles.
• Practical experience with Git-based workflows and understanding of CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Red Hat container ecosystem and container monitoring.
• Experience working within structured ITIL-aligned processes.
• Exposure to hardware lifecycle management and VMware-based virtual environments.
• Experience with endpoint detection and protection tools.
• Basic operational knowledge of network/security platforms.
• Solid scripting skills in Bash and/or Python.
• Experience with vendor coordination, support processes, and licensing management.

Other:

• Must be a team player with organizational skills.
• Customer-minded, accountable, and flexible with working hours.
• Must have a driver's license, car, and mobile phone.
• Willingness to participate in 24/7 standby/on-call duties.