Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer (Hosting Services) for NATO with security clearance

WLG; Den Haag; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

WLG in The Hague, Netherlands, seeks an infrastructure-as-a-service engineer to manage day-to-day hosting services, virtualization, storage and the physical data centre.

You will support senior technicians, engineers and service delivery managers across design, engineering, implementation, operation and integration, while maintaining virtual environments and physical infrastructure and ensuring security and ITIL practices.

Qualifications

• Five years of related experience with MSc or seven years with BSc.
• Deep data-centre concepts: servers, storage, virtualization, backup/restore.
• Hands-on VMware vSphere 7+ with blade/rack servers; knowledge of VCF.
• Networking and storage fundamentals: SAN, NAS, iSCSI, FC, TCP/IP.
• Windows Server and Red Hat Linux administration.
• IT asset and configuration management; ITIL practices.

Responsibilities

• Day-to-day operation and maintenance of hosting services.
• Support senior technicians across design, engineering, and delivery.
• Administer and maintain virtual infrastructure and platforms.
• Install, manage and run common user services over networks.
• Conduct daily data-centre hardware checks and replace failing parts.
• Keep topology diagrams and configuration database updated.
• Troubleshoot data-centre issues and document work.
• Advise on full lifecycle of capabilities; monitor SLAs.
• Write operating procedures and runbooks.

Skills

VMware vSphere

VMware Cloud Foundation

SAN/NAS

TCP/IP

Fibre Channel

iSCSI

Windows Server

Red Hat Linux

ITIL

Ansible

VMware Aria

IT security basics

Education

MSc in related subject

BSc in related subject

Tools

VMware Aria

Ansible

Job description

Infrastructure engineering where the data centre is down the corridor, not in another country's cloud region.

You would be the infrastructure-as-a-service engineer for a multinational defence hosting service in The Hague, Netherlands — virtualisation, storage, backup and the physical data centre that carries them, across the whole life of the service.

What You Would Be Doing

• Day-to-day operation and maintenance of the hosting services
• Supporting the 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 you are given
• Installing, managing and running the common user services carried over the networks
• Walking the data centre: daily physical checks of hardware, replacing failing parts before they take something with them
• Keeping the change process honest — topology diagrams and the configuration database updated whenever kit goes in or comes out
• Troubleshooting in the data centre, and keeping a proper record of the work
• Advising on the whole life of the capabilities and services, and watching the service levels closely
• Writing the operating procedures and instructions the service runs on

What you would bring

• An MSc in a related subject with five years of related experience, or a BSc with seven
• Real depth in data-centre concepts, technologies and standards: servers, storage, virtualisation, and backup and restore of virtual environments
• Hands-on data-centre management on VMware vSphere 7 or later, with blade and rack-mount servers; knowledge of VMware Cloud Foundation
• SAN and NAS fundamentals — TCP/IP, Fibre Channel, FCoE, iSCSI, WWN, LIFs — against SAN, unified and NAS storage
• Installing, monitoring and maintaining data-centre equipment, including cabling and the physical infrastructure around it
• Active Directory, Windows Server and Red Hat Linux
• IT asset and configuration management, and sound ITIL practice
• Automation with tools such as VMware Aria or Ansible
• Sound practical knowledge of IT security
• Documentation you would not mind someone else inheriting, and clear English

Nice to have

• Virtualisation certification such as VCP, a data-centre certification, or CompTIA Server+, Network+ or CCNA
• Experience inside a service-provisioning organisation

Why this one is worth a look

It is a broad estate — hypervisor, storage fabric and the physical hall — rather than one narrow slice of it, and the engineer who understands all three is the one everybody calls.