Senior System Design Engineer

12/01/2026

Our client is looking for a Senior System Design Engineer

Description

As a senior System Design Engineer, you have over 5 years of technical system experience to perform technical engineering services :

  • You evaluate and translate requirements into design;
  • You evaluate design benefits and trade-offs;
  • You validate design compliance and support deployment of the design to ensure the requirements are met;
  • You use development tools to efficiently solve technical or business challenges, incl. technology evolution, capacity management, and performance optimization;
  • You innovate to present new ideas which improve an existing system/process/service;
  • You maintain knowledge of existing technology documents via technical writing;
  • You perform (complex) incident resolution and root cause analyses;
  • On duty call for the systems you are responsible for, can be required.

Next to a proven experience in system software and IT infrastructure, you have the following core competences : Adaptive, Analytical thinking, Collaborating, Flexible, Result driven, Software development.
Senior System Engineer needed to manage a large on prem Elastic environment.

Knowledge needed:

  • Linux/server management
  • Elastic search
  • Elastic APM
  • Ansible automation –? we need a mindset to be as efficient as possible to be able to automate things where feasible
  • To be able to work in an on call rotation
  • Experience with notification services (for on call rotations) is a plus
  • Good English language skills – team communicates officially in English.
  • Dutch speaking is a plus
  • Working in Mechelen or Leuven

Job specifications

ID: 12253

Duration: 01/04/2026-31/12/2026

Location: Mechelen or Leuven

Type: Freelance

Joël De Ben

IT Recruitment Consultant
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