Infrastructure & Cloud

ELK Specialist

Are you ready to Level Up on ELK ?

We are looking for a Senior System Design Engineer to manage and further evolve a large-scale on-premises Elastic environment. In this role, you will combine deep technical expertise with a strong design mindset, ensuring robust, scalable, and performant system solutions.

You will play a key role in translating business and technical requirements into solid system designs, validating implementations, and supporting production environments.


Role

Your Responsibilities

  • Evaluate and translate functional and technical requirements into system designs
  • Assess design benefits, risks, and trade-offs
  • Validate design compliance and support deployment to ensure requirements are met
  • Operate and optimize systems with a focus on performance, capacity, and scalability
  • Use development and automation tools to solve technical and business challenges
  • Proactively propose innovations to improve existing systems, processes, or services
  • Maintain technical documentation and system design records
  • Handle complex incidents, perform root cause analyses, and support problem resolution
  • Participate in an on-call rotation for the systems you are responsible for

Profile

Technical Skills (Must-have):

  • Strong experience with Linux / server management
  • Hands-on expertise with Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch)
  • Experience with Elastic APM
  • Ansible for automation (strong automation-first mindset)
  • Proven experience in system software and IT infrastructure (on-prem environments)

Nice to have:

Experience with notification / alerting services for on-call rotations

Dutch language skills


Soft Skills

  • Analytical and adaptive thinker
  • Strong collaboration skills
  • Flexible and result-driven
  • Administratively strong
  • Clear, structured, and convincing communicator
  • Comfortable working in an international, English-speaking team


Offer

What We Offer

  • A senior-level role with real impact on critical on-prem infrastructure
  • A technically challenging environment with room for innovation and automation
  • Collaboration with experienced engineers in a professional setting
Benefits
  • 3_days_remote3 days remote
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