Senior Technical Application Engineer – Pensions Platform (Remote)

Keylane; Utrecht; Hybrid; EUR 47,430 - 55,800; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit sharing

Pension scheme

Travel reimbursement

Hybrid working

Lunch in office or home office stipend

Bike leasing

Career development academy

Vitality offers

Job summary

Keylane seeks a Senior Technical Application Engineer to own stability, security, and performance of the Lifetime platform, a pension SaaS solution used in Dutch and Caribbean markets. You’ll manage Oracle/WebLogic, Linux, Windows, and middleware, lead complex incidents, and drive automation while mentoring peers.

You’ll work in a hybrid model within Keylane’s TAM team, delivering secure integrations and standardized runbooks, with exposure to audits and DR/testing for high availability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's (HBO) or Master’s in IT, Computer Science or related field.
• At least 5 years of experience in Technical Application Management, Infrastructure Engineering, Middleware Engineering or similar.
• Experience with Oracle WebLogic, Oracle Database administration and troubleshooting, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 8/9).
• Familiar with Java-based application environments including Tomcat, IIS, web services, application architecture, and middleware technologies.
• Knowledge of security best practices, including firewalls, proxies, load balancers, security hardening, patch and vulnerability management, and PKI/certificate management.
• Experience with automation and scripting (PowerShell, Bash or Python) and monitoring or deployment tooling as well as Configuration management tools (Ansible or Puppet).
• Experience within insurance, pension or financial services sector is an advantage.
• Experience in regulated or highly available enterprise environments is an advantage.
• Analytical and proactive mindset with strong communication skills and ability to translate technical issues into business impact.
• Team player comfortable with on-call rotation to keep platform available.

Responsibilities

• Take the lead on complex incidents and act as the technical escalation point for colleagues and stakeholders.
• Guard and improve application availability, resilience, and performance by implementing structural improvements and preventive measures.
• Manage the lifecycle of the underlying technology stack including patching and upgrades for Windows Server, Linux, Oracle, SQL Server, Tomcat and related components.
• Manage the full lifecycle of client and server certificates, ensuring timely renewals, secure deployment and coordination with customers.
• Deliver secure application integrations by supporting deployments, configuring web services, and coordinating network, security and whitelisting requirements and end-to-end validation.
• Maintain a healthy and resilient platform by driving capacity management, monitoring across application, middleware, database, and infrastructure layers.
• Lead business-critical resilience and security activities, including disaster recovery and failover testing, penetration tests and external audits.
• Improve operational efficiency by automating through scripting, tooling and configuration management.
• Contribute to the standardization of operational processes, runbooks, and technical documentation.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable and secure services.
• Inspire and support colleagues by mentoring junior engineers and sharing knowledge.

Skills

Analytical mindset

Strong communication

Automation scripting

On-call readiness

Education

Bachelor's (HBO) or Master's in IT/CS

Tools

Oracle WebLogic

Oracle Database

Tomcat

IIS

Ansible

Puppet

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Job description

Keylane seeks a Senior Technical Application Engineer to own stability, security, and performance of the Lifetime platform, a pension SaaS solution used in Dutch and Caribbean markets. You’ll manage Oracle/WebLogic, Linux, Windows, and middleware, lead complex incidents, and drive automation while mentoring peers.

You’ll work in a hybrid model within Keylane’s TAM team, delivering secure integrations and standardized runbooks, with exposure to audits and DR/testing for high availability.