Systems Engineer

Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

Your role

• Ensure operational stability of all IT systems infrastructure.
• Ensure optimal performance and resource management across all systems.
• Maintain and deploy system and cloud architecture according to requirements for business enablement.
• Maintain and operate systems backup procedures and ensure recoverability and data integrity.
• Maintain and operate infrastructure life cycle management, including operating system versioning and full hardware replacements.
• Ensure compliance of all IT systems according to IT policy, including Windows Updates, anti-virus, threat and vulnerability scanning, and operating system component versioning (.NET, SQL, web-browsers, etc).
• Ensure installations, configurations, policies and procedures meet the IT-security targets, applicable compliance frameworks and specific customer requirements.
• Proactively conduct self-assessments and vulnerability scans to gain additional confidence that these targets are met.
• Contributes to business projects, infrastructure projects, audits, etc. to provide system management expertise.
• Ensure incidents are solved within SLA’s determined lead time.

 

What you’ll need

• IT Related Bachelor education (or 5+ years of work experience)
• Microsoft Certification 
• VMWare Virtual Certified Professional (VCP) (preferred)
• 3 or more years of work experience in international environment
• Experience in working in a multi-vendor environment
• Fluent in English, both written and orally.

 

Soft-Skills

• Strong aptitude and critical thinking
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Exceptional communicator
• Independent in own work; take responsibility in projects, but also not afraid to ask for help when needed
• Proactive attitude
• Strong discipline; organized and structured way of working
• Risk aware; knows how to assess risks and how to communicate these risks to stakeholders

 

• Will be participating in after hours on call duty on a rotation schedule basis.
• Occasional travel to DLR locations

The IT System Engineer maintains and monitors the Digital Realty infrastructure to ensure the Digital Realty systems are available, performing, compliant and secure. Together with your IT Systems Operations team you also define, implement and maintain the processes and tooling to do this in the most cost-efficient way. Making sure availability, functionality and compliance of all IT systems infrastructure globally.