Senior Systems Performance Expert (hybrid in Luxembourg) - EU Institution

Who are we?

Trasys International is a dynamic global organization that takes pride in being the trusted partner of EU Institutions. With strong commitment to excellence and a 30-years track record of delivering high-quality solutions, we are dedicated to supporting the growth and success of our clients. Our Mission is to help our clients keep up with the challenges of digital transformation by providing the right talent at the right time for the right job. To this end, we are constantly looking for talented professionals who are interested in working on challenging international projects and able to deliver high-quality results within multicultural environments. Our services include (but are not limited to) modernization of solutions, digital workspaces, cloud technologies and IT security. Our Headquarters are in Brussels and we have active accounts and offices across Europe (i.e. Luxembourg, Amsterdam, Athens, Stockholm, Geneva).

Is this YOU?

For one of our main clients based in Luxembourg - an European Institution, we are looking for a Senior Systems Performance Expert with hands-on experience in structurally tackling system performance matters in a complex environment to join the client's Digital Services Unit in the area of law enforcement, fraud prevention and financial crime investigation. You will be part of the Digital Ecosystems Support Sector (DESS) within the Digital Services Unit, that plays a key role in conducting an in-depth analysis of the overall performance of the infrastructure and core applications, proposing structural changes/improvements and taking part to their implementation. In this team, the environment is, among others, composed of: Cisco Network devices, Fortinet Firewalls, F5 load balancers, RHEL servers (core of the infra), Windows Servers, IBM products (FileNet, BAW, Case manager, WebSphere), and other tools.

The position must be performed 50% onsite in Luxembourg vs remote on monthly basis, therefore relocation to Luxembourg (or in the area) will be preferred. In practice, it means: 2 weeks of the month in Luxembourg onsite, 2 weeks of the month remotely from any EU location.

What is the project about?

You will be part of the Digital Services Unit and will work in the DESS’ Systems and Applications Support team. In scope of the foreseen project, an in-depth performance analysis (and remediation) of the overall infrastructure is foreseen to:

1. Establish a documented performance baseline

2.Establish a set of standard tooling for performance analysis

3. Uncover and remediate all performance bottlenecks

4. Establish a clear roadmap for performance evaluation, follow-up and improvement.

More specifically, you will be responsible for...

• Establish a performance baseline for the infrastructure and core applications

• Evaluate the overall performance of the CMS ecosystem with the aim to significantly improve the user experience

• Measure performances from client to backend, on client as well as side and system sides

• Identify potential bottlenecks

• Collaborate with other stakeholders (Business/DDS/DBA/NETWORK/INFRA/SAAS) to propose solutions

• Perform load testing

• Provide input to capacity planning

• Provide expert advice and assistance, technology watch, architectural considerations, risk analysis, gap analysis, applicable standards, solution patterns and best practices around Systems and application performance

• Provision of technical studies

• Elaboration of design documentation, with consultation with stakeholders

• Elaboration of vision documents focused upon Systems Performance components.

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Are you the perfect match?

• 6+ years of experience as Systems Performance (or application) expert or related responsibility

• Proven experience with Linux administration, performances tuning and scripting

• In-depth knowledge and proven hands-on expertise in the performance evaluation of complex enterprise applications, systems and (virtualized) infrastructure

• Hands-on experience with system performance analysis and monitoring tools (iostat, htop, vmstat...)

• Hands-on experience with database performance analysis and monitoring tools (OEM, AWR, tkprof, SQl trace)

• Hands-on experience with application (specifically Apache, Websphere, Filenet) performance analysis and monitoring tools (Jmeter, web application monitoring,…)

• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure performance analysis and monitoring (network, storage, Nutanix)

• Ability to build a methodology to pinpoint bottlenecks

• Knowledge of common performance issues and best practices in content-heavy applications

• General knowledge of networking, ICT infrastructure and system

• Advanced English – proficient communication skills, orally and in writing.

It will be nice if you also have…

• Previous experience with Nagios monitoring to elaborate live checks (with webinject for example)

• Previous experience IT automation

• Knowledge of IBM WebSphere Application Server/FileNet/Content Navigator.