System Engineer Service Operations

B2B Freelance Opportunity

Mode: Hybrid(2 to 3 days per week)

Experience :5+years(Medior role)

Start date: December 2026

Duration: 12 months (renewable)

Location: Schaerbeek,Brussels ,Belgium

Languages

o Dutch or French: Full professional / native proficiency

o English: Professional working proficiency

Only for EU Nationals.

Requirements:

o 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).

• Linux Platform Engineering

o End-to-end lifecycle management of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (or equivalent) environments

o 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

o Strong experience with Ansible Automation Platform (playbooks, roles, automation workflows)

o Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code principles and pipeline integration

o Experience integrating automation with monitoring and operational workflows

• CI/CD & Version Control

o Practical experience with Git-based workflows (GitLab, Azure DevOps, or similar)

o Understanding of CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and configuration deployment

• Container Technologies

o Experience with Red Hat container ecosystem, including:

▪ Podman / OCI containers

o Understanding of container monitoring and lifecycle operations

• IT Service Management (ITSM)

o Experience working within structured ITIL-aligned processes:

▪ Incident, problem, and change management

▪ Service request handling

o Strong focus on monitoring-driven operations, diagnostics, and forensics

Preferred experience and skills

• Databases

o Exposure to databases technologies (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL)

o Experience with installation, configuration and troubleshooting of DBs

• Infrastructure & Platform Ecosystem

o Exposure to hardware lifecycle management (server, firmware updates, lifecycle planning)

o Experience with VMware-based virtual environments

o Familiarity with NetApp storage systems

• Security & Detection

o Experience with endpoint detection and protection tools:

▪ Trend Micro Deep Security, ClamAV, or equivalent

o Understanding of integrating security signals into monitoring/alerting pipelines

• Network & Platform Integration

o Basic operational knowledge of network/security platforms:

▪ Palo Alto, Check Point, F5, InfoBlox

o Ability to correlate infrastructure and network events for incident analysis

• Scripting & Automation

o Solid scripting skills in Bash and/or Python

o Ability to develop automation for monitoring, remediation, and reporting

• Vendor & Lifecycle Management

o Experience with vendor coordination, support processes, and licensing management

• Languages

o German is considered a plus