Operations Support Engineer
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Operations Support Engineer maintaining mission-critical IT systems for European institutions. Providing L2 support, observability, middleware operations and change management remotely within the EU.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure operational maintenance and continuity of the system after entry into operations
- Provide second-level support by analysing and resolving incidents, problems and service requests within defined service levels
- Perform corrective, adaptive, preventive and perfective maintenance
- Monitor system health and performance through observability tools and respond proactively to alerts and events
- Coordinate with DevSecOps Engineers on deployments, automation improvements and environment optimisation
- Collaborate with Database Administrators, Architects and operational teams on system operation, configuration management and change control
- Participate in change and release management, deployment readiness, rollback planning and validation testing
- Contribute to post-incident reviews and root-cause analyses
- Maintain operational documentation, runbooks and knowledge-base articles
- Support knowledge transfer and handover activities
- Provide operational support for middleware and integration components, including gateways, data transformation and messaging platforms, identity and access management systems, web servers and content management platforms
Requirements:
- University degree in IT or a relevant discipline
- Minimum 5 years of relevant working experience in IT
- Minimum 3 years of experience in IT operations or application/system support
- At least 2 years of second-level (L2) support for large-scale, mission-critical systems
- Experience with ITIL-aligned frameworks and structured change and release-management processes
- Excellent understanding of Incident, Problem, Change, Release, Event and Knowledge Management
- Proficiency with IT service management tools such as ServiceNow
- Experience with Linux/Unix environments, container orchestration platforms and observability stacks
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and configuration-management tools
- Knowledge of application runtime environments, APIs, middleware and integration technologies
- Knowledge of API management and gateway platforms, event streaming, message-oriented middleware, data transformation, identity and access management, web infrastructure, content-management platforms and mobile build/deployment pipelines
- Knowledge of database performance monitoring, backup and recovery coordination
- Familiarity with system hardening, patching and vulnerability remediation
- Familiarity with middleware, integration, observability and automation tools
- Excellent command of English
- ITIL Foundation or higher, Linux administration, container-orchestration or equivalent certification is an asset
Benefits:
- Competitive remuneration based on qualifications and experience
- Option of a full benefits package for remuneration-based employment
- Work as part of a team serving a major European Institution
- International, multilingual and multicultural working environment
- Equal Employment Opportunity commitment
- Confidential treatment of applications















