System Engineer - Solaris - Brussels

1-YEAR CONTRACT
START DATE: ASAP

Responsible for the operational environment of middlewares running on Solaris/Linux platform:
Build and maintain Middleware infrastructure: installation and migration to new versions, following ITIL methodology
Acceptation and implementation of upgrades, changes and fixes, following ITIL methodology
Resolve incidents and search solutions for problems as 2nd/3rd level support according agreed service levels
Solve complex operational problems
Build and improve Middleware automation (deployment, monitoring, reporting, ...)
Keep documentation up-to-date or create new documentation if not available, share knowledge
Support project and development teams for the middlewares under your support
Participate in proof of concepts and projects with Architecture and Security for the middlewares under your support
Follow-up of administration
Works outside normal business hours for planned changes & interventions
Participates in an on duty support team 24h/24h 7d/7d (long term) - one time every 4-6 weeks

As an experienced senior, you will coach system engineers.

You are contact person for:
ICT project managers & application leads for software development
Release- & Change managers
ICT release co-ordinators for implementations
Test co-ordinators during User Acceptance Phases
2nd line support in the Service Desk (>= Duty, +/- 1week/month, intervention weekend and evenings)
External suppliers

- Must have's (in-depth knowledge of at least 2 of the following domains):

IBM Sterling B2B Integrator, Sterling Filegateway, Sterling Secure Proxy and Sterling External Authentication Server
Webservice Gateway (preferably Axway API Server)
Messaging Middleware (preferably IBM WebSphere MQ)
Java Application Servers and webservers (preferably JBoss/Apache)
Job Scheduler (preferably UC4/Automic)
Single Authentication Broker (Trustbuilder)
Tivoli Identity Management
(Middleware) Infrastructure automation via Scripting/development (Python, bash, Java, ...)

- Good knowledge of:

Unix (Linux and/or Solaris)
Scripting: Shell, Awk, Perl, C
Performance tuning
Monitoring (Nimsoft/dynatrace)
Programming languages: understand Java code and assist developers in solving problems related to Middleware use
Network/architecture knowledge (TCP/IP, routing, DNS, DHCP, Proxy)
Security knowledge