Cloud Linux Engineer

We have partnered with ITAF,  the IT partner that provides small, and medium businesses and enterprises in Belgium with IT support, IT security, and complete ICT infrastructure. Founded in 1999, the company has grown to over 70 employees, consultants, and specialists who are helping and supporting more than 1500 customers every day. Over the years ITAF delivered more than 2000 successful projects.

ITAF’s focus lies in making reliable partnerships, providing modern IT solutions and strategic guidance that support SME’s business growth.

Due to their expansion we are searching for Cloud Linux Engineer to join their team.

As a Linux system engineer you get involved in managing, improving and extending our extensive Linux datacenter infrastructure, which includes:

• real-time monitoring infrastructure (icinga 2)
• backup infrastructure (bareos and others)
• performance and capacity monitoring (librenms)
• configuration management and automation (ansible)
• virtualisation (OpenNebula, KVM, Xen)
• software-defined storage (Ceph, Linstore, DRBD)
• network file systems (glusterfs, NFS, SMB)
• firewalls (pfsense)
• Web application servers (apache, nginx)
• DNS servers (powerDNS))
• you are comfortable in English, both written and spoken in a technical business environment

Requirements:

• you have a bachelor or master degree in IT (or equivalent through experience)
• you are a CLI-junkie with excellent Linux implementation and analytical troubleshooting skills
• you like working in team with other engineers
• you like to challenge what exists today in order to improve it tomorrow
• you're keen on making things repeatable, modular and standardized
• you have a flexible working style and are open to occasional out-of-office hours work
• you take ownership of the tasks assigned to you and see them through till the end
• you are a quick learner and pick up new stuff easily

We offer you:

• A challenging IT environment.
• An IT infrastructure constantly being improved and expanded. We're never done building & improving.
• Exposure to lots of technically interesting stuff.
• Job security. We are looking for people who want to join the team for a long period of time.
• A career path: the more you put in, the more you will get out of it.
• A competitive salary in line with your competences and experience with the opportunity to grow in proportion with your skill set, motivation and the ownership that you take.
• Work hand in hand with our more senior professionals, who are eager to share their pearls of wisdom and experience.
• Small and independent teams, no big machinery.

Only shortlisted candidates will be considered.