PHays Italy, part of the multinational Hays group, a company listed on the London Stock Exchange, which offers consulting services in the Information Technology sector with the aim of contributing to the success and technological progress of individuals and companies, is looking for a /ppbr/ppstrongSystem Engineer /strong– Application servers /ppbr/ppto operate evolve the company’s strongHosting /strong platforms. This role focuses on the strongapplication /strong stronglayer /strong supporting enterprise‑grade strongweb hosting /strong strongcritical services /strong, ensuring high availability, security performance across a large‑scale infrastructure. uField /u: national provider of strongcloud /strong,strong hosting /strong,strong domain registration /strong,strong data center /strongstrong trust services /strong(includingstrong certified email /strong/strongPEC /strong) /ppbr/ppstrongKey Responsibilities /strong /pulliOperate maintain the strongELK /strong/ strongKafka /strong‑based log ingestion search stack, ensuring stronghigh availability /strong, scaling fine‑tuning (topics, partitions, shards, indices, ILM, retention) /liliProactively strongmonitor capacity /strong strongperformance /strong; analyze strongmonthly reports /strong strongtrends /strong to strongforecast growth /strong strongprevent incidents /strong /liliEngineer optimize strongLogstash /strong pipelines, strongGrok /strong patterns parsing/transport paths; reprocess failed events reduce parsing failure rates /liliImplement strongpatch management /strong, address end‑of‑life scenarios apply strongsecurity fixes /strong according to guidelines provided by the Security function /liliMaintain strongobservability dashboards /strong strongmetrics /strong (strongGrafana /strong/strongElastic /strong) improve strongalerting fidelity /strong /liliAdminister optimize strongapplication servers /strong strongreverse proxy /strong components, including strongNginx /strong, strongApache /strong HTTP Server, strongTomcat /strong strongWildFly /strong, ensuring scalability resilience /liliConfigure maintain strongreverse proxy /strong strongload balancing /strong for high‑traffic stronghosting environments /strong /li /ulpbr/ppstrongRequirements /strong /pulliSolid hands‑on experience administering strongELK /strong ecosystems at scale, including strongKafka /strong/ strongZookeeper /strong, strongLogstash /strong, strongElasticsearch /strong cluster sizing tuning /liliStrong strongLinux /strong systems administration (strongUbuntu /strong, strongCentOS /strong/strongRHEL /strong, strongDebian /strong) in clustered HA environments; working knowledge of strongMicrosoft Windows Server 2012–2019 /strong as needed /liliStrong expertise in strongNginx /strong (reverse proxy, SSL termination, caching) strongApache HTTP Server /strong configuration /liliHands‑on experience with strongTomcat /strong strongWildFly /strong troubleshooting application‑level issues /liliKnowledge of strongload balancing /strong, stronghigh availability clustering /strong strongperformance tuning /strong for web hosting platforms /liliIaC: strongAnsible /strong (roles, inventories, AWX) strongTerraform /strong for provisioning drift control /liliCI/CD versioning: strongGitLab /strong /liliFamiliarity with strongITIL /strong processes (Incident/Change/Service Request) ticketing via strongJIRA /strong /liliClear technical writing for run books operational documentation /li /ulpbr/ppuLocation /u: completely strongfull remote /strong– uItaly-based /u /ppbr/ppstrongFreelancers /strongare highly welcomed too /ppbr/ppCandidates of strongany gender identity /strong, after reviewing the mandatory privacy notice available at are kindly requested to submit their CV in strongPDF /strongformat, quoting the reference number (Ref. strong--- /strong). Hays Solutions S.r.l. Sole Shareholder Company. Subject to the management and coordination of Hays Plc. /p