System Design Engineer - Mechelen - ASAP Start - Freelance / CDI act digital

As a Senior System Design Engineer, you will leverage your 5+ years of technical system experience to deliver high-quality engineering services. You will be responsible for designing, validating, and optimizing complex systems while ensuring compliance with requirements and supporting deployment.

Key Responsibilities

• Requirements Analysis & Design:

  • Evaluate and translate business and technical requirements into system designs.
  • Assess design benefits and trade-offs to ensure optimal solutions.

• Validation & Deployment:

  • Validate design compliance and support deployment to meet requirements.

• Technical Problem-Solving:

  • Use development tools to address technical and business challenges, including technology evolution, capacity management, and performance optimization.
  • Perform complex incident resolution and root cause analysis.

• Innovation & Documentation:

  • Propose innovative ideas to improve systems, processes, or services.
  • Maintain technical documentation and ensure knowledge sharing.

• On-Call Support:

  • Participate in on-call rotations for systems under your responsibility.

Core Competencies

• Adaptive and flexible mindset
• Strong analytical thinking
• Collaborative and result-driven approach
• Clear, structured, and convincing communication
• Software development experience

Technical Skills (Must-Have)

• Linux/server management
• Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Elastic APM)
• Ansible automation (focus on efficiency and automation mindset)
• Experience with notification services for on-call rotations (a plus)

Additional Requirements

• Administratively strong and detail-oriented
• Good English communication skills (team language)
• Dutch language skills are a plus