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# System Design Engineer

- **Company:** Synctiv
- **Location:** Leuven, Belgium
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Linux, Programming Tools, Elasticsearch, Performance Tuning, Ansible, Software Engineering, System Software, Information Technology
- **Published:** August 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.be/jobad/be701dada0e03e0c461599ad91d4485134

## About the Role

As a senior System Design Engineer, you have over 5 years of technical system experience to perform technical engineering services :

 - You evaluate and translate requirements into design;
-You evaluate design benefits and trade-offs;

 - You validate design compliance and support deployment of the design to ensure the requirements are met;
 - You use development tools to efficiently solve technical or business challenges, incl. technology evolution, capacity management, and performance optimization;
 - You innovate to present new ideas which improve an existing system/process/service;
 - You maintain knowledge of existing technology documents via technical writing;
 - You perform (complex) incident resolution and root cause analyses;
 - On duty call for the systems you are responsible for, can be required.
Senior System Engineer needed to manage a large on prem Elastic environment.
Knowledge needed:

 - Linux/server management
 - Elastic search
 - Elastic APM
 - Ansible automation -- we need a mindset to be as efficient as possible to be able to automate things where feasible
 - To be able to work in an on call rotation
 - Experience with notification services (for on call rotations) is a plus
 - Good English language skills - team communicates officially in English.
 - Dutch speaking is a plus
 - Working in Mechelen or Leuven
Next to a proven experience in system software and IT infrastructure, you have the following core competences : Adaptive, Analytical thinking, Collaborating, Flexible, Result driven, Software development.



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