Splunk & Linux System Engineer

ITS Group Benelux; Brussel Hoofdstad; Híbrido; EUR 70 000 - 90 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Hospitalization insurance

Group insurance

Dental insurance

Company car / transport support

Training & certification

Resumo da oferta

ITS Group Belgium is seeking a Splunk & Linux System Engineer to support and enhance a Linux-based enterprise infrastructure and Splunk platform in a large-scale environment.

The role covers Linux system engineering, Splunk administration, monitoring, automation, and platform engineering to ensure reliability, performance, security, and continuous improvement.

Qualificações

• Minimum 2 years hands-on Splunk in production environments.
• Experience with data onboarding and ingestion management.
• Familiar with Universal/Heavy Forwarders and apps/add-ons.
• Strong Linux troubleshooting and OS diagnostics.

Responsabilidades

• Maintain Linux-based infrastructure and production Splunk environments.
• Design, implement, and improve Splunk solutions and dashboards.
• Monitor platform health, perform root cause analysis, and automate tasks.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and vendors in ITIL processes.

Conhecimentos

Splunk

Linux admin

SPL (Search Processor Language)

Dashboards & alerts

RBAC & data retention

Automation scripting

Ferramentas

Ansible

Bash

Python

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Great assignments await you with our key account clients in rich and varied environments

We are looking for a Splunk & Linux System Engineer responsible for supporting and enhancing a Linux-based enterprise infrastructure and Splunk platform in a large-scale operational environment.

The role combines Linux system engineering, Splunk administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, automation, and platform engineering. The consultant will ensure the reliability, performance, security, and continuous improvement of Linux systems and Splunk services while contributing to incident resolution, root cause analysis, automation initiatives, and platform evolution.

The consultant will work in an operational environment focused on service continuity, observability, automation, and infrastructure standardization.

Your missions:

• Support and maintain Linux-based infrastructure.
• Manage physical, virtualized, and containerized environments.
• Ensure system reliability, security, compliance, and performance.
• Perform lifecycle management of Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments.
• Administer and support production Splunk environments.
• Design, implement, and improve Splunk solutions.
• Integrate and maintain data sources.
• Optimize data quality, platform performance, and service visibility.

Incident & Problem Management

• Resolve incidents and service requests affecting Linux and Splunk services.
• Diagnose issues using operating system and Splunk data.
• Perform root cause analysis.
• Propose and implement long-term corrective actions.
• Develop automation solutions through scripting and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Standardize platform and infrastructure configurations.
• Improve operational efficiency and platform reliability.
• Participate in R&D activities.
• Evaluate new Splunk features, applications, add-ons, and integrations.
• Contribute to solution prototyping and future platform evolution.

Your activities:

Splunk Operations

• Configure and maintain:
  • Indexes
  • Sourcetypes
  • Parsing rules
  • Data retention settings
  • Role-based access controls
• Manage:
  • Universal Forwarders
  • Heavy Forwarders
  • Splunk apps and add-ons
• Create and maintain:
  • Dashboards
  • Reports
  • Alerts
  • Searches
  • Field extractions
• Monitor Splunk platform health.
• Troubleshoot ingestion, indexing, and search issues.
• Support operational monitoring and observability initiatives.
• Perform OS-level diagnostics and troubleshooting.
• Conduct system performance tuning.
• Support patching, provisioning, and lifecycle operations.
• Maintain containerized workloads and supporting infrastructure.
• Investigate infrastructure and platform incidents.
• Analyze logs, metrics, and events.
• Correlate infrastructure, platform, and network events.
• Support detection, diagnosis, and reduction of MTTD/MTTR.
• Contribute to monitoring-driven operations and forensic investigations.

Automation & DevOps

• Ansible
• Bash
• Python
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
• Manage Git-based workflows.
• Integrate automation into operational processes and monitoring systems.

Collaboration & Operational Governance

• Work with cross-functional teams.
• Coordinate with vendors and support partners.
• Document solutions, procedures, and changes.
• Operate within ITIL-aligned processes:
  • Incident Management
  • Problem Management
  • Change Management
  • Service Request Management

You have the following skills:

Must-Have

SkillsSplunk

• Minimum 2 years of hands‑on experience administering and supporting Splunk in production environments.
• Data onboarding and ingestion management.
• Universal Forwarders and Heavy Forwarders.
• Apps and add-ons management.
• SPL (Search Processing Language).
• Dashboards, reports, alerts, and field extractions.
• Splunk platform monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Indexes, sourcetypes, parsing, retention policies, and RBAC concepts.
• Minimum 4 years of experience managing Linux-based infrastructure.
• Linux troubleshooting and OS diagnostics.
• System performance optimization.

Automation

• Strong Ansible Automation Platform experience.
• Bash and/or Python scripting.
• Automation workflow development.

Operations & Service Management

• Incident, problem, and change management.
• Root cause analysis.
• Monitoring-driven operations.
• ITIL-based operational environments.

Languages

• French or Dutch: Full professional proficiency.
• English: Professional working proficiency.

Nice-to-Have

SkillsInfrastructure & Platforms

• Red Hat Satellite 6.x.
• VMware environments.
• Hardware lifecycle management.
• Firmware lifecycle management.

Containers & Cloud‑Native Technologies

• Podman.
• OCI Containers.
• Container monitoring.

DevOps & CI/CD

Security & Monitoring

• Event correlation.
• Anomaly investigation.
• Performance baselining.
• Monitoring and alerting strategies.
• Log aggregation and metrics collection.
• Integration of security signals into monitoring pipelines.

Security Technologies

• Trend Micro Deep Security.
• ClamAV.
• Similar endpoint protection solutions.

Network & Security Infrastructure

• Check Point.
• F5.
• InfoBlox.
• Network event correlation and incident analysis.
• Support contract management.
• Licensing management.
• You have at least 4 years of professional experiences in IT
• If you are at least fluent in FR/ENG or NL/ENG it’s best
• You’re eager to learn, motivated and curious
• Let’s have a chat !

Advantages

• Hospitalization insurance (partner/children incl.)
• Group insurance
• Dental insurance (partner/children included)
• 20 days statutory paid vacations (legal vacations cumulated for 1 year of work)
• 11 days recovery time work 38/40 per year (= annual average: 1 day per 20 days worked) if the client asks you to work 8h/day
• Representation fee net per month.
• Internet fee of € 40 per month.
• Company car with national fuel card OR Public transport reimbursed OR mobility package.
• Daily fee of 5.50€ net /day provided.
• Subscription GSM unlimited calls for Belgium (ITS subscription)
• Training plan (e-learning - certification at ITS charge)
• Being a rather small team in BE (6 in back-office), we’re very close to each of our consultants and we differentiate ourselves trying to really take care of you and make you grow with us and within our different clients.
• Regular follow-up (every 3 to 6months depending on your needs/will)
• Regular teambuilding to meet-up and have fun (every 3 months more or less)
• Flexibility and trust
• Benefits of still being part to a bigger group (ITS Group) and having access to resources and of a larger team of Experts
• Co-optation system because sharing is caring!
• 1st pre-screening on the phone to discuss about your search and conditions and our first potential opportunities matching.
• Job descriptions sent and Teams meeting fixed with us (HR and Sales) to dig into your experience and the role.
• Package proposal so we all agree beforehand.
• Your CV is sent to the different clients you’ve agreed to, to find the best mission for you!

Expérience> 5 ans
Fonction managériale :Non
Mobilité :Non
Mode de poste :Hybride (site/télétravail)
Salaire :Salary conform your experience & skills
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