1. Introduction to ETNIC

ETNIC (Entreprise pour les Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication) is the IT operator of the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles. As a public interest organization, ETNIC’s mission is to design, develop, maintain, and evolve information systems and technological infrastructures serving the administrations and institutions of the FWB.

A central player in the digital transformation of the Belgian Francophone public sector, ETNIC operates in various fields such as:

• Management of IT infrastructures (networks, security, data centers, cloud)
• Development of custom business applications
• Support of digital projects (functional analysis, UX/UI, project management)
• Cybersecurity and data protection
• User support and training

With a constant focus on innovation, performance, and public service, ETNIC regularly collaborates with external partners to strengthen its teams through IT consultancy assignments. These collaborations are carried out within an ethical, professional framework aimed at quality and the concrete impact of delivered solutions.

2. Mission

Hierarchical reporting: within the Security department, Traceability/Audit/Reporting (TAR) team, under the supervision of the team leader;

• Operational mission related to the ELK software suite (ElasticSearch, Kibana, Logstash, Elastic Security, Elastic Defend) and related technologies (Apache Kafka)
• Participate in the design, implementation, and maintenance of log ingestion pipelines from various sources related to different IT security services (Firewall, WAF, IAM, IDS/IPS, etc.)
• Transform and normalize data according to the Elastic Common Schema (ECS) standard
• Participate in the implementation and configuration of the SIEM module of Elastic Security for the detection and analysis of security events based on predefined use cases
• Participate in the deployment and configuration, according to use cases and threat modeling, of Elastic Agents on identified servers (mainly Linux, Windows) for endpoint collection, protection, and behavioral analysis (Elastic Defend)
• Participate in defining dashboards and alerts necessary for monitoring and supervision
• Assist internal teams in building expertise on best practices in Elastic operations and security