System Engineer

Skeyes Air Traffic; Town of Belgium (WI); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

skeys will hire a System Engineer to oversee critical IT infrastructure, focusing on monitoring, AD security, virtualised environments and storage systems. You will collaborate with IT Infrastructure and other technical departments to ensure secure, reliable, and scalable services for air traffic operations.

You will design and implement system architectures, monitor performance and capacity, and provide third-line support while maintaining 24/7 availability and high security standards.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years of System Engineer experience in large IT environments.
• Strong AD security design, access management and resilience.
• Experience with Nagios monitoring, virtualisation and storage systems.
• Knowledge of VMware ESX, SAN/NAS/DAS, NFS and iSCSI.
• Fluency in English; French or Dutch language skills preferred.
• Security screening prior to employment.

Responsibilities

• Manage monitoring and AD to ensure 24/7 service availability.
• Design, deploy and optimise virtual IT infrastructure and storage.
• Provide third-line support and root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with IT Infrastructure and other technical departments.
• Ensure security measures and incident response planning.

Skills

Nagios monitoring

Identity & access management

Virtualisation

High availability/DR

Automation (Ansible, PowerShell)

VMware ESX/vSphere

Multi-factor authentication

PAM/IAM/Directory services

English fluency

French or Dutch language

Tools

Nagios

VMware ESX

PowerShell

Ansible

SAN/NAS/DAS storage concepts

Job description

As our System Engineer, you ensure that critical infrastructure, systems and storage operate optimally at skeyes. You also pay particular attention to areas such as monitoring and Active Directory (AD), to ensure their security, compliance and performance. In this way, you ensure that our air traffic controllers and technicians have access to a service that is available 24/7.

What does a System Engineer do at skeyes?

You are responsible for managing key areas such as monitoring and Active Directory (AD). You are also responsible for managing the virtual IT infrastructure, hyper-converged solutions and storage systems (SAN, NAS, DAS). To this end, you will work closely with members of your IT Infrastructure team as well as with colleagues from other technical departments such as Voice & Radio communications, navigation, radar surveillance and Air Traffic Management.

Subject Matter Expert

• Active Directory (AD) – Active Directory security is a critical issue. As a Subject Matter Expert, you are responsible for the design, security, access management and resilience of the AD, whilst ensuring its ability to recover and its compliance with security requirements.
• Monitoring (Nagios) – You will also be responsible for designing, deploying and optimising the monitoring solution using Nagios, to ensure reliable, effective and proactive monitoring of critical systems.
• System infrastructure virtualisation – skeyes is working hard to transform its physical infrastructure into a more virtualised environment. To this end, we are counting on your experience, expertise and knowledge to ensure the success of this transition.

Design, develop and provide support for system solutions

You are responsible for developing the architecture of our systems, as well as for the practical implementation, monitoring and support required.

• Ensure a high-quality 24/7 service and systems that operate at peak performance – To ensure this, you will implement corrective actions and carry out system maintenance, as well as proposing improvements. You will also put in place initiatives to improve monitoring, performance and capacity through monitoring, alerts and forecasting. Finally, you will provide third-line support and analyse the root causes of system issues.
• Ensure the security of the system – You maintain the system’s current security measures and implement new ones. You continuously identify flaws and weaknesses in order to further refine these security measures.

What makes you our perfect System Engineer?

• You have at least five years’ experience as a System Engineer in a large-scale IT environment involving critical systems and networks.
• To ensure the safety of air traffic, our systems must be reliable and meet very high (quality) standards. We therefore expect you to have in-depth knowledge of the following areas:
  • identity & access management (PAM, IAM, Directory services)
  • monitoring under Nagios
  • virtualisation (Clustering and Load-balancing, traditional and by container)
  • high availability and Disaster recovery (Back-up/restore)
• You have decent knowledge of:
  • VMware ESX Hypervisor (ESX, vSphere, vCenter)
  • storage concepts (SAN, NAS, DAS, CIF, NFS, ISCSI)
  • multi-factor authentication and PKI
  • automation (Ansible, Powershell)
• You also have experience with monitoring and alerting (systems), particularly Nagios, and are able to integrate these into complex infrastructure environments in order to proactively detect and respond to system issues;
• English is no problem at all for you, and you are also fluent in French or Dutch.

In light of the vacancy to which you respond we would like to draw your special attention to the fact that prior to being employed by skeyes candidates have to undergo a security screening which will be carried out by the National Security Authority.

Why work at skeyes?

Our mission is to ensure the safety and efficiency of air traffic, and also to reduce its ecological footprint in order to make it part of a sustainable future. Today, contributing to the development of aviation means playing an economic and social role on a global scale.