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