Infrastructure Engineer (VMware, SAN/NAS and Data Centre) for NATO with security clearance

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

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 securityDocumentation 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.