Senior Middleware & On-Premises Operations Engineer

Location: Brussels, Belgium; onshore candidates must be based in Belgium and attend the Brussels site approximately 50% of the time. Nearshore candidates must be based in Europe, work primarily remotely, and attend Brussels approximately 30 working days per year.

Company

hirify.global delivers long-term IT operations projects within the Cronos Group technology ecosystem for international clients.

What you will do

• Install, configure, maintain, upgrade, and troubleshoot middleware platforms and commercial enterprise applications.
• Provide second- and third-line support for incidents, service requests, and complex production issues, including root-cause analysis.
• Administer Apache HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat, Linux, and Windows Server environments.
• Automate installations, configuration management, deployments, and routine operations using Ansible, Bash, and PowerShell.
• Support CI/CD, containerised platforms, infrastructure monitoring, and security using tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Nexus, Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.
• Collaborate with networking, infrastructure, security, development, and database teams while maintaining operational documentation, procedures, guides, and runbooks.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• At least 5 years of professional experience supporting and administering middleware or commercial enterprise products in production environments.
• Hands-on experience installing, configuring, upgrading, and troubleshooting middleware and application servers.
• Strong Linux and Windows Server administration skills, with knowledge of networking, DNS, TLS/SSL, reverse proxies, firewalls, load balancing, monitoring, and enterprise infrastructure.
• Experience providing second- and third-line technical support for business-critical production systems and using ServiceNow or equivalent ITSM tools.
• Experience with Apache HTTP Server, Tomcat, Ansible or equivalent configuration management, Bash, PowerShell, CI/CD tools, and container technologies.
• Experience with Oracle Database administration, SQL, backup procedures, patching, and performance troubleshooting.
• Fluent written and spoken English is mandatory.
• Onshore candidates must be based in Belgium and have valid authorisation to work in Belgium; nearshore candidates must be based in Europe. Mandatory on-site attendance in Brussels applies to both arrangements.
• Ability to work independently, collaborate within an international technical team, troubleshoot analytically, and improve operational processes through automation and documentation.

Nice to have

• Experience with Microsoft Azure and infrastructure as code such as Terraform.
• Experience with ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise, SAS, Oracle Data Integrator, Microsoft On-Premises Data Gateway, or Grafana.
• French language skills and ITIL Foundation certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time role supporting long-term enterprise IT operations projects in an international environment.
• Flexible hybrid and remote collaboration models with mandatory project-related on-site work in Brussels.
• Competitive compensation aligned with experience and contract arrangement.
• Professional development and technical growth through exposure to complex enterprise IT environments, middleware, and infrastructure automation.
• Collaborative environment valuing expertise, initiative, ownership, and continuous improvement.