System Design Engineer

Role Overview

As a System Design Engineer, you bring 5+ years of experience in system engineering, system software, and IT infrastructure. You deliver high-quality technical engineering services and play a key role in designing, maintaining, and optimising complex systems.

You will manage a large on-premise Elastic environment and contribute to system reliability, performance, and automation.

Key Responsibilities

• Evaluate and translate business and technical requirements into robust system designs
• Assess design benefits, risks, and trade-offs
• Validate design compliance and support deployment to ensure requirements are met
• Use development and automation tools to efficiently solve technical and business challenges, including:
• Technology evolution
• Capacity management
• Performance optimisation
• Proactively innovate and propose improvements to existing systems, processes, and services
• Maintain and update technical documentation through clear technical writing
• Perform complex incident resolution and root cause analysis
• Participate in an on-call rotation for the systems you are responsible for

Required Experience & Technical Skills

• Strong experience with Linux / server management
• Extensive knowledge of:
• Elastic Stack
• Elasticsearch
• Elastic APM
• Ansible automation experience (or a strong automation-first mindset to improve efficiency)
• Experience working in on-call rotations
• Experience with notification services for on-call rotations is a plus

Soft Skills & Competencies

• Administratively strong
• Clear, structured, and convincing communication skills
• Analytical and adaptive thinker
• Collaborative and flexible team player
• Result-driven mindset
• Strong software development awareness

Language & Location

• Fluent English (team communicates officially in English)
• Dutch is a plus
• Willing to work in Mechelen or Leuven