Application Engineer-Administrator

We currently have a vacancy for an Application Engineer-Administrator fluent in English, to offer his/her services as an expert who will be based in The Hague, the Netherlands. The work will be carried out either on the companys premises or on-site at customer premises. In the context of the first assignment, the successful candidate will be integrated and closely cooperate with a major clients IT team, on-site.

Your Tasks

• Application installation, configuration and administration in production and non-production environments;
• Application monitoring, performance tuning and continuous improvement of the efficiency and quality of service;
• Performance of applications support and maintenance activities such as incident, change, release and problem resolution;
• Writing and validating application procedures manuals, including troubleshooting guides, backup and restore plans;
• Automate administrative procedures for recurring system administration activities and provide installation and technical support documentation where required;
• Contribution to the structuring, maintenance and development of the technical knowledge base supporting the ICT Operations activities;
• Reporting on application availability, performance, capacity and overall usage where required.

Requirements

• University Degree and at least 10 years of IT professional experience;
• More than 6 years of experience working as an IT professional in mid/large IT infrastructure environments, including deployment, support and maintenance of applications;
• Minimum of 5 years of experience with administration and support of recent operating system versions of Microsoft Windows Servers and/or Red-Hat Linux on enterprise environments;
• Minimum of 5 years of experience working as an IT professional in the area of application administration, support and configuration;
• Minimum of 4 years of experience with DevOps and automated deployment and configuration scripting (e.g. Git, Azure DevOps, Python);
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in Kubernetes cluster and applications administration;
• Minimum of 2 years of experience with configuration management tools for applications (e.g., Puppet);
• Excellent knowledge of Linux and Windows server-side operating system support and maintenance (RHEL 8+, Windows 2019+);
• Excellent knowledge of Linux and Windows server-side application administration and troubleshooting;
• Excellent knowledge of application containerization, packaging and deployment on Kubernetes clusters (helm charts, operators, pipelines);
• Good knowledge of DevOps principles and best practices (version control, automation, pipelines, improve efficiency, feedback loops, fail fast, etc.);
• Knowledge of ITIL, including the incident, change and release management processes;
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA);
• Excellent command of the English language.

Benefits

If you are seeking a career in an exciting and dynamic company, where you will offer your services as part of a team of a major European Institution, operating in an international, multilingual and multicultural environment where you can expect real chances to make a difference, please send us your detailed CV in English.

Lia Giarleli

We have an opening in the Hague, Netherlands for which you may find more info in the link below:

https://apply.workable.com/european-dynamics/j/DDD048703D/

Details:

- Position: Application Engineer-Administrator

- deadline:19/05/25

- rate: 560 max daily (all inclusive)

- Client: Europol

- working arrangements: Onsite in the Hague.

- duration of mission: 160 days initial + 280 days optional extension

Please note that we can consider only EU candidates due to security clearance requirements and candidates that would be eligible to get registered as freelancers.

Kindly find attached the requirements table for your convenience.Please always send the table with the submission of the CV.