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
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
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.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Information Technology and Consulting
Industries
Staffing and Recruiting and IT Services and IT Consulting
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