Data Centre Infra Engineer — VMware, Storage & DC Ops

WLG; Den Haag; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

WLG in The Hague, Netherlands, seeks an experienced infrastructure engineer to manage hosting services, storage, virtualisation, and the physical data centre. You will support senior teams and ensure reliable operation of virtual platforms and networks.

The role covers day-to-day maintenance, design collaboration, and lifecycle planning, with emphasis on active directory, Linux, and ITIL-based processes. A broad, hands-on data centre skillset is required.

Qualifications

• MSc with 5 years of related experience or a BSc with 7 years.
• Deep data-centre knowledge: servers, storage, virtualization, backup/restore of VMs.
• Hands-on data-centre management with VMware vSphere 7+ on blade/rack servers; knowledge of VMware Cloud Foundation.
• SAN/NAS fundamentals: TCP/IP, Fibre Channel, FCoE, iSCSI, WWN, LIFs; SAN/unified/NAS storage.
• Installing, monitoring and maintaining data-centre equipment, including cabling and infrastructure.
• Active Directory, Windows Server and Red Hat Linux.
• IT asset and configuration management, and ITIL practices.
• Automation with VMware Aria or Ansible.
• Clear English; good documentation is essential.

Responsibilities

• Day-to-day operation and maintenance of hosting services.
• Support senior technicians, engineers and service delivery managers across design, engineering, implementation, operation and integration.
• Administering and maintaining the virtual infrastructure, and system administration on the platforms provided.
• Installing, managing and running common user services over the networks.
• Walking the data centre: daily hardware checks, replacing failing parts.
• Keeping topology diagrams and the configuration database updated.
• Troubleshooting in the data centre and recording work in logs.
• Advising on the life cycle of capabilities and services; monitoring SLAs.
• Writing operating procedures and instructions the service runs on.

Skills

VMware vSphere

Data-centre concepts

SAN & NAS

Windows Server

Red Hat Linux

Active Directory

ITIL practices

Ansible

VMware Aria

Documentation & English

Education

MSc in related subject

BSc in related subject

Tools

VMware Aria

Ansible

Job description

WLG in The Hague, Netherlands, seeks an experienced infrastructure engineer to manage hosting services, storage, virtualisation, and the physical data centre. You will support senior teams and ensure reliable operation of virtual platforms and networks.

The role covers day-to-day maintenance, design collaboration, and lifecycle planning, with emphasis on active directory, Linux, and ITIL-based processes. A broad, hands-on data centre skillset is required.