Senior System Engineering Specialist (EU-LISA) – Deadline 26/10/2026

About the role

A freelance Senior System Engineering Specialist position in Strasbourg, under the EU-LISA programme, with a deadline of 26 October 2026. The role covers IT support, design and troubleshooting of large server and SAN farms and complex platforms, including virtual environments, storage, automation and ServiceNow integrations.

Key responsibilities

• Configure and troubleshoot virtual environments (VMware vSphere, vSAN, Horizon).
• Manage servers, blade systems and composable infrastructure, and storage systems (SAN, Ceph, vSAN).
• Administer backup and restore solutions such as Veeam and StoreOnce.
• Manage Oracle infrastructure (Exadata, ZDRLA), mail servers, anti-virus and anti-spam, and centralized software deployment.
• Run OCP in DEVOPS mode with Red Hat Service Mesh, GitHub, Helm, GitOps, Ansible, Kafka, Nagios and Splunk.
• Develop, run and troubleshoot Ansible and PowerShell scripts, and administer PKI and certificates.
• Design, develop and maintain ServiceNow integrations (REST, SOAP, JDBC) and custom scripts (JavaScript, Glide API, Script Includes) for ITSM, ITOM, ITAM, CMDB and related modules.
• Build reusable components such as Flow Designer sub-flows and UI policies, test integrations with the Automated Test Framework and monitor platform health.

Required profile

• Minimum 4 years of relevant education (master or equivalent) after secondary school.
• Minimum 9 years of relevant professional experience.

Required skills

• VMware (vSphere, vSAN, Horizon) and Red Hat administration of large farms.
• Oracle hardware management, Active Directory/LDAP and Keycloak.
• Hardware management, inventory and configuration management.
• ServiceNow customization and scripting.