Senior Remote App Infrastructure Engineer

Black Pen Recruitment; Brussel Hoofdstad; On-site; EUR 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Black Pen Recruitment is seeking an Application Infrastructure Engineer to provide expert IT services remotely within the EU. The role sits in a team that collaborates closely with a major client’s IT department across production and non-production environments.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in IT infrastructure, strong Linux/Windows server experience, and hands-on work with microservices, containers, Elasticsearch, and cloud platforms. Excellent English is essential.

Qualifications

• University Degree in IT and at least 10 years of IT professional experience.
• Minimum of 6 years of experience in mid/large IT infrastructure environments with deployment, support and maintenance of applications.
• At least 5 years of experience in application administration.
• 2+ years of experience with micro-services, container orchestration and container-based stacks (Docker, Kubernetes).
• 2+ years of experience administering Elasticsearch.
• 5+ years with enterprise Microsoft or Linux server solutions.
• 2+ years of Public/Hybrid Cloud services (Azure or AWS) is a plus.
• Excellent command of English.

Responsibilities

• Application installation, configuration and administration in production and non-production environments;
• Application monitoring, performance tuning and continuous improvement of service quality.
• Applications support and maintenance: incident, change, release and problem resolution.
• Writing and validating procedures manuals, including troubleshooting guides and restore plans.
• Automating administrative tasks and providing install/technical support documentation.
• Maintaining the ICT Operations knowledgebase and supporting activities.
• Reporting on availability, performance, capacity and usage.

Skills

IT infra

Docker

Kubernetes

Elasticsearch

Azure/AWS

Puppet/Ansible

Shell/PowerShell

English fluency

Education

University Degree in IT

Tools

Helm charts

Rancher

Job description

Black Pen Recruitment is seeking an Application Infrastructure Engineer to provide expert IT services remotely within the EU. The role sits in a team that collaborates closely with a major client’s IT department across production and non-production environments.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in IT infrastructure, strong Linux/Windows server experience, and hands-on work with microservices, containers, Elasticsearch, and cloud platforms. Excellent English is essential.