Hays Italy is seeking a Senior System Engineer to operate and evolve the company's hosting platforms. The role focuses on the application layer, ensuring high availability, security, and performance across a large-scale infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have experience with ELK ecosystems, Linux systems administration, and Nginx configuration.
Key Highlights
Technical Skills Required
Benefits & Perks
Job Description
Hays 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
System Engineer – Application servers
to operate & evolve the company’s Hosting platforms. This role focuses on the application layer supporting enterprise‑grade web hosting & critical services, ensuring high availability, security & performance across a large‑scale infrastructure. Field: national provider of cloud, hosting, domain registration, data center & trust services (including certified email/PEC)
Key Responsibilities
- Operate & maintain the ELK / Kafka‑based log ingestion & search stack, ensuring high availability, scaling & fine‑tuning (topics, partitions, shards, indices, ILM, retention)
- Proactively monitor capacity & performance; analyze monthly reports & trends to forecast growth & prevent incidents
- Engineer & optimize Logstash pipelines, Grok patterns & parsing/transport paths; reprocess failed events & reduce parsing failure rates
- Implement patch management, address end‑of‑life scenarios & apply security fixes according to guidelines provided by the Security function
- Maintain observability dashboards & metrics (Grafana/Elastic) & improve alerting fidelity
- Administer & optimize application servers & reverse proxy components, including Nginx, Apache HTTP Server, Tomcat & WildFly, ensuring scalability & resilience
- Configure & maintain reverse proxy & load balancing for high‑traffic hosting environments
Requirements
- Solid hands‑on experience administering ELK ecosystems at scale, including Kafka / Zookeeper, Logstash, Elasticsearch cluster sizing & tuning
- Strong Linux systems administration (Ubuntu, CentOS/RHEL, Debian) in clustered HA environments; working knowledge of Microsoft Windows Server 2012–2019 as needed
- Strong expertise in Nginx (reverse proxy, SSL termination, caching) & Apache HTTP Server configuration
- Hands‑on experience with Tomcat & WildFly & troubleshooting application‑level issues
- Knowledge of load balancing, high availability clustering & performance tuning for web hosting platforms
- IaC: Ansible (roles, inventories, AWX) & Terraform for provisioning & drift control
- CI/CD & versioning: GitLab
- Familiarity with ITIL processes (Incident/Change/Service Request) & ticketing via JIRA
- Clear technical writing for run books & operational documentation
Location: completely full remote – Italy-based
Freelancers are highly welcomed too
Candidates of any gender identity, after reviewing the mandatory privacy notice available at www.hays-itservices.it, are kindly requested to submit their CV in PDF format, quoting the reference number (Ref. ---). Hays Solutions S.r.l. Sole Shareholder Company. Subject to the management and coordination of Hays Plc.