Linux System Engineer

Role: Linux System Engineer

Location: Brussels BE

Language: English, French, Dutch Or German are plus

Requirements:

• You are able to speak, read and write fluently English and French or Dutch.
• Experience Minimum 4 years of experience in IT operations, managing containerized, virtualized, and/or physical Linux-based infrastructure in large-scale environments (enterprise, governmental, or supranational).
• Monitoring & Observability 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
• Event correlation, anomaly detection, and performance baselining
• Incident detection and reduction of MTTD/MTTR
• Linux Platform Engineering End-to-end lifecycle management of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (or equivalent) environments
• Experience with enterprise tooling, including: Red Hat Satellite 6.x (provisioning, patching, lifecycle management)
• System performance tuning, troubleshooting, and OS-level diagnostics
• Automation & Infrastructure as Code Strong experience with Ansible Automation Platform (playbooks, roles, automation workflows)
• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code principles and pipeline integration
• Experience integrating automation with monitoring and operational workflows
• CI/CD & Version Control Practical experience with Git-based workflows (GitLab, Azure DevOps, or similar)
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and configuration deployment
• Container Technologies Experience with Red Hat container ecosystem, including: Podman / OCI containers
• Understanding of container monitoring and lifecycle operations
• IT Service Management (ITSM) Experience working within structured ITIL-aligned processes: Incident, problem, and change management
• Service request handling
• Strong focus on monitoring-driven operations, diagnostics, and forensics
• Languages Dutch or French: Full professional / native proficiency
• English: Professional working proficiency

Preferred experience and skills

• Infrastructure & Platform Ecosystem Exposure to hardware lifecycle management (server, firmware updates, lifecycle planning)
• Experience with VMware-based virtual environments
• Familiarity with NetApp storage systems
• Security & Detection Experience with endpoint detection and protection tools: Trend Micro Deep Security, ClamAV, or equivalent
• Understanding of integrating security signals into monitoring/alerting pipelines
• Network & Platform Integration Basic operational knowledge of network/security platforms: Palo Alto, Check Point, F5, InfoBlox
• Ability to correlate infrastructure and network events for incident analysis
• Scripting & Automation Solid scripting skills in Bash and/or Python
• Ability to develop automation for monitoring, remediation, and reporting
• Vendor & Lifecycle Management

Experience with vendor coordination, support processes, and licensing management