Senior Middleware & Automation Engineer

NTek Software Solutions; Brussel Hoofdstad; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

NTek Software Solutions in Belgium seeks an experienced middleware support engineer to provide second- and third-line support for the middleware and commercial products that our solutions depend on. You install, run and improve them, and you are the team’s reference for middleware and automation, including database support.

We value practical experience; you will work with Apache, Tomcat, Nexus, Jenkins, ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise, SAS and Oracle on Red Hat Linux and Windows Server, automated with

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience supporting and administering middleware or commercial products in production.
• Strong Linux administration (RHEL or equivalent) and Windows Server administration.
• Proven experience installing and upgrading web and application servers like Apache HTTP Server and Tomcat.
• Configuration management with Ansible or equivalent, and scripting in Bash and PowerShell.
• Experience with CI/CD and build tools, e.g. Azure DevOps, Jenkins and Nexus.
• Hands-on experience with containers (Docker, Podman, Kubernetes/OpenShift).
• Good understanding of networking (DNS, TLS, proxies, firewalls, load balancers).
• Ability to learn unfamiliar commercial products independently.
• Experience with ServiceNow or an ITSM tool, and incident prioritization by business impact.

Responsibilities

• Resolve incidents and service requests and identify root causes of complex problems.
• Triage second-line requests on the team rota and route them to the correct team.
• Install, configure, upgrade, patch and harden middleware and commercial products.
• Automate deployments, configuration and routine operations.
• Monitor performance and availability and fix issues before users are affected.
• Evaluate new commercial products via proofs of concept and vendor support.
• Collaborate with network, server and storage teams to resolve dependencies.
• Write and maintain runbooks and operational guides.

Skills

5+ years experience

Linux administration

Windows Server administration

Apache HTTP Server

Tomcat

Ansible

PowerShell

Bash

CI/CD tools

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Nexus

Containers

Docker

Podman

Kubernetes/OpenShift

DNS/TLS/Proxies/Firewalls/Load Balers

Tools

Ansible

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Nexus

Docker

Podman

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Job description

NTek Software Solutions in Belgium seeks an experienced middleware support engineer to provide second- and third-line support for the middleware and commercial products that our solutions depend on. You install, run and improve them, and you are the team’s reference for middleware and automation, including database support.

We value practical experience; you will work with Apache, Tomcat, Nexus, Jenkins, ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise, SAS and Oracle on Red Hat Linux and Windows Server, automated with