Senior Linux Administrator

At Axians we deliver the best combination of technology and services to enable our clients to fulfil the diverse needs of their customers. Axians is the VINCI Energies brand dedicated to ICT and Digital Transformation. Were present across 38 countries with more than 16 600 employees and an annual revenue of more than 3.7 billion euros in 2024.Axians. The best of ICT with a human touch.

Why Join Axians European Institutions Team

Multicultural Environment: You will work alongside professionals from all over the world fostering a diverse and enriching workplace.
DiverseProjects: Engage in impactful projects with cutting-edge technological advancements facilitated by European Institutions.
SkillDevelopment: Work in a knowledge-driven environment where youll continually develop both technical and professional skills through exposure to complex projects.
Long-term Opportunities: Our partnerships with European Institutions offer stable long-term roles where you can make a real difference on a European scale.
Contributing to European Initiatives: Make a meaningful impact on regional and global challenges.

We are seeking aOperations Engineerto join our team in Brussels.

Responsibilities:
Participation in the projects with the other teams (developers software deployment team network enterprise architecture team IT security team);
Design of new applications based on Linux servers and/or Containers (devops);
Study of solutions on the market to continuously improve the compute and storage infrastructure;
Systems operation activities including setup installation tuning troubleshooting monitoring and maintenance (including management of firmware patches) of the Linux servers (circa 600):

• installing configuring and hardening new Linux RedHat servers (physical and virtual)
• updating the image for the automated server deployment
• manage and use the open source infrastructure monitoring for the Linux RedHat (RH) servers troubleshooting of OS errors
• perform security patching
• manage RH Satellite for distributing packages
• manage RH idM for the admin users on the servers
• manage application service accounts
• manage server certificates and configure SSH keys for non-interactive access
• manage servers via Ansible
• manage containers both on Docker hosts and on Kubernetes clusters
• manage the OS of Oracle physical clusters

Incident and Problem Management activities (e.g. fault analysis diagnosis and resolution).
Elaboration of operational guidelines and procedures for the management of the Linux servers and related environment;
Change and Configuration management activities (e.g. assessment scheduling implementation review);
Specification of solutions for operations: Specification of teams (number of persons competencies) specification of management systems (technology architecture) specification of any other tools needed in operations such as: Configuration Management Database Knowledge System etc.
Design of management systems and other tools: design of architecture technical evaluation of alternatives offered on the market conduct of proof of concept testing in pre-production environment;
Implementation of new solutions for operations: migration of new systems in production environment definition of procedures training of operators for new procedures development of tools (customisation or configuration of commercial tools development of small tools such as websites databases etc.);
Evaluation of quality and efficiency of operations by definition and implementation of metrics; periodical follow-up of metrics; proposal of measures to improve quality and/or efficiency of operations.

Strategic studies:
Execution of architecture and technology studies taking into account all aspects related to architecture and technology decisions such as: user requirements evolution of technology and standards and aspects related to ergonomics ecological footprint availability scalability maintainability evolution installation migration operations finance
Definition preparation and execution of tests or proofs of concept

Training:

• Assessment of training requirements
• Elaboration of courses
• Implementation of training sessions
• Assessment of training results

The above list is not exhaustive. Any other task necessary to achieve the units objectives in relation to the requested service profile may be required.

Requirements:

• EU Citizenship.
• Resident or available to relocate to Belgium.