ABOUT US

The Province of West Flanders is a dynamic regional authority that aims to strengthen the prosperity, livability, and resilience of its territory, as described on the official page.

ROLE

You will work in the System Administration section of the ICT department at Province of West Flanders in Bruges. The department also consists of a Project Management section and a staff and support unit.

You will work alongside other system administrators and analysts and report to the section head.

The section is responsible for the technical management of the ICT infrastructure for the Province of West Flanders. Within the section, you will be part of the 3rd line team. The focus of this team is on the datacenter, datacom, and security. The environment is hybrid and includes both cloud and on-premise components. You keep a close eye on market developments and technological innovations. You assess the impact and advise on an approach for the organization. You implement the solution yourself or support external parties in doing so.

PROFILE

As a system administrator/analyst, you are responsible for the operation of the ICT infrastructure with a focus on the datacenter, datacom, and security. The environment is hybrid and includes both cloud and on-premise components.

Specialized competencies are therefore required for:

• Configuration of datacom devices: routers, switches, load balancers, firewalls.

• TCP/IP, IPv4/6

• L2/3 switching & routing, VLANs, BGP, VRRP…

• LDAP/Radius/Tacacs

• VoIP, SIP, PoE

• Managing, monitoring, and improving network security.

• Antimalware

• Intrusion detection

• Management and maintenance of the (segmented) network

• Internal and external (provider) side

• Administrative network and IoT network

• Wired (copper/fiber) and wireless

• VPN access

• Datacenter management (compute & storage)

• Virtualization (servers/desktops)

• Disaster recovery, business continuity

• Backup, restore, replication

• NAS/SAN

• Advising on cloud and XaaS systems

• Conceptualizing sustainable solutions in ICT architecture

• Following up/executing installations and scheduled maintenance during the monthly maintenance window

• Collaborating with/guiding internal ICT employees and external installers/suppliers

• Setting up/guiding POCs for researching new solutions to be implemented

• Resolving complex incidents/problems/changes

• Safeguarding/optimizing ITIL processes:

• Problem management

• Change management

• Keeping CIs and CMDB up to date for the assets under your management

• General monitoring of the ICT infrastructure: analysis, capacity control, management and planning

• Documenting the processes and systems under your management

Employment

The assignment concerns a full-time position with the main location in Bruges (Sint-Andries).