Remote Senior App Engineer: Elasticsearch & Kubernetes

NextChain Solutions; Den Haag; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

EUROPOL in The Hague is seeking an experienced Application Engineer / Administrator to support IT infrastructure and application operations across enterprise environments.

The successful candidate will deploy, administer, maintain and provide production support, with strong expertise in Elasticsearch, container technologies, microservices and enterprise server administration. The role offers primarily remote work with onsite onboarding and periodic travel within two hours of The Hague.

Qualifications

• University degree with 4+ years plus 9+ years of relevant professional experience after graduation; OR 3+ years with 10+ years experience after graduation.
• Minimum six years of experience as an IT professional in medium or large IT infrastructure environments, including deployment, support and maintenance.
• Minimum five years of experience in application administration.
• Minimum two years of experience with microservices, container orchestration and container-based technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.
• Minimum two years of experience administering and supporting Elasticsearch.
• Minimum five years of experience working with enterprise Microsoft or Linux server environments.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure and administer applications across production and non-production environments.
• Monitor applications, optimize performance and improve service quality and efficiency.
• Provide application support and maintenance, including incident, change, release and problem management.
• Prepare and validate application procedures, troubleshooting guides, backup plans and restoration procedures.
• Automate recurring system administration tasks.
• Create and maintain installation guides, technical support documentation and operational procedures.
• Contribute to the ICT Operations knowledge base maintenance and development.
• Prepare reports on application availability, performance, capacity and usage when required.

Skills

Microservices

Container orchestration

Elasticsearch

Shell scripting

PowerShell

ITIL processes

DevOps practices

Education

University degree + 9 years of experience

University degree + 10 years of experience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm charts

Rancher

Puppet

Ansible

Chocolatey

PowerShell

Shell scripting

Elasticsearch administration

Job description

EUROPOL in The Hague is seeking an experienced Application Engineer / Administrator to support IT infrastructure and application operations across enterprise environments.

The successful candidate will deploy, administer, maintain and provide production support, with strong expertise in Elasticsearch, container technologies, microservices and enterprise server administration. The role offers primarily remote work with onsite onboarding and periodic travel within two hours of The Hague.