IT Infrastructure Engineer

For one of our customers we are looking for an IT Infrastructure Engineer.

Location

The Hague area

Start date

asap

Period

3 months+

Availability

fulltime

Description
We are looking for an IT Infrastructure Engineer to maintain and support high availability services. You will create value by installing, developing and maintaining an effective, reliable Server and Desktop Environment mainly based on Unix and Linux. You will be working in a small team responsible for critical IT services in a broad IT Infrastructure, so any general IT Infrastructure knowledge and experience like networking, databases, security and storage is a pre. Furthermore, you will act as the primary contact for analyse and troubleshoot reported incidents.

Deliverables and responsibilities

• Daily maintenance and troubleshooting on Linux desktops and servers.

• Perform standard system administration tasks (handling of tickets) as necessary to keep a system up and running.

• Operating, maintaining and optimising a set of applications.

• Technical operation, including pro-active monitoring and maintenance of all High-Available applications with the ambition to automate activities as much as possible.

• Identify improvement areas and continuously improve the delivered High Available IT services.

• Manage and maintaining the PostgreSQL database server.

• Provide and maintain network with network monitoring tool in collaboration with the Network Administrator.

• Provide documentation within own area of responsibility to the service desk team to enable efficient support and keep the internal knowledgebase up to date.

• Ensure that the documentation regarding servers and workstations is up-to-date.

Competence

• Preferably a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering.

• At least 5 years of experience as an Infrastructure Engineer.

• Thorough knowledge of Linux operating systems (CentOS / RedHat) and Networking (Routing and Switching).

• A broad IT Infrastructure knowledge of VMWare, Databases, Security and Storage.

• Must be able to write scripts in Bash, Python.

• Experience in troubleshooting, system maintenance and root cause analysis.

• Experience with assisting and helping (internal) customers of several (technical) levels is very welcome.

• Some experience in a large international environment is a plus.

• Preferably a certification on RedHat Linux (RHCE) and Cisco (CCNA).

• Willingness to travel.

• Prepared to work occasionally outside of office hours.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills (English and preferably also Dutch).

Personal profile

The candidate is a team player and has a hands-on mindset, a strong customer- and problem-solving orientation, shows fast results, and has demonstrated good communication skills, especially in an international organization.

We would like to receive the following information. These are the minimum requirements to the offer:

• A recently updated Curriculum Vitae (MS Word);

• Motivation to the offer;

• Information regarding your availability ;

• Hourly rate (excl. VAT, incl. expenses).

We are looking forward to receiving your offer.