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ThoughtLabs Belgium

Senior System Engineering Specialist

Hybrid

Strasbourg, France

Senior

Freelance

19-02-2026

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Skills

Problem Solving PowerShell SQL Splunk GitHub Monitoring Configuration Management Ansible VMware Redhat Windows Kafka Active Directory Prometheus Grafana

Job Specifications

Requirements:

• B2 level of English minimum. Any knowledge of French is an asset.

• Minimum 4 years of relevant education (master or equivalent) after the secondary school.

• Minimum 9 years of relevant professional experience.

• Knowledge and experience with HW management, racking, cabling, replacement, FW upgrades

• HW/SW inventory and configuration management;

• Advanced knowledge and experience with VMWare (vSphere, vSAN, Horizon);

• Knowledge and experience with managing Oracle HW;

• Knowledge and advanced experience in Redhat, Windows OS administration of large farms;

• Active Directory (AD) / LDAP and Keycloak Management;

• Network Attached Storage (NAS) and distributed file systems;

• Centralized IT security policy management;

• Knowledge and experience in administration of servers, bladesystems and composable infrastructure;

• Knowledge and experience in administration of Backup & Storage systems (VEEAM, StoreOnce, vSAN, traditional SAN and CEPH);

• Advanced script development and troubleshooting skills (Ansible, Powershell); • Experience in software compliance monitoring and enforcement;

• Advanced knowledge of OCP platform administration with supporting tools like Red Hat Service Mesh, GitHub, Helm, GitOps, Ansible Automation Platform, Kafka;

• Knowledge to support mail servers and mail relays (postfix), anti-virus and antispam;

• Basic knowledge on DB systems, MS SQL, Oracle and Elastic search;

• Knowledge and experience with monitoring and observability systems (configuration, customisation, further development), Prometheus, Grafana, ElasticSearch, Fluentd, Kibana, Jaeger, NAGIOS and Splunk;

• Excellent analysis and problem solving skills;

• Experience in managing highly available environments and multiple site support;

• Familiar with ITIL/ITIL V3 processes, in particular incident, change, capacity and configuration management

About the Company

We focus on delivering high-performance and premium services to diverse organizations. ThoughtLabs® is a team of software engineers, programmers, technology experts and technical recruiters who work together to provide our clients with outstanding services. What we do? • IT Consultation • IT Staffing • Web Development • Mobile App Development • IT Consultation In this high-tech and digitalized world, you may be stuck in certain things. You need to analyze your current business practices, approach and standings in tec... Know more