Temporary Teaching and Research Assistant in Security and Network Engineering

1000scholars; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 39,000 - 52,000; Part time

Job summary

The University of Amsterdam is seeking a part-time lecturer for the Informatics Institute to develop and deploy research-based material and labs for security and network engineering courses. You will assist students with relevant technologies and support lab setups, configurations, and repositories.

The role involves supervising projects, coordinating Master theses, and fostering community around the Master’s programme, with English as the professional language.

Qualifications

• MSc in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Technical experience in Computer Networks and/or Cybersecurity.
• Be a motivated teacher, with a thorough and encouraging teaching style.
• Experience in supporting tasks and the willingness to take the responsibility for administrative tasks, such as organisation and coordination of university education and research.
• Professional command of English.

Responsibilities

• Deployment of security and network engineering material and labs;
• Assisting, monitoring progress and grading of student projects;
• Coordination of Master theses projects, tracking and supporting student success;
• Helping manage the community around the Master’s programme.

Education

MSc in Computer Science

Job description

Are you passionate about system and network engineering and enjoy exploring new challenges? Then keep reading to discover an opportunity to put your skills into practice.

Join us!

This is what you will do

You will actively work with course coordinators and lecturers in developing their research-based material and labs for security and network engineering courses. This includes deployment of material and labs, as well as helping students in relevant technologies (e.g. installing network setups/configurations, using software/hardware hacking equipment, setting up servers, repositories, development environments and containers, etc.).

Tasks and responsibilities:

• Deployment of security and network engineering material and labs;
• Assisting, monitoring progress and grading of student projects;
• Coordination of Master theses projects, tracking and supporting student success;
• Helping manage the community around the Master’s programme.

What we ask of you

Your experience and profile:

• MSc in Computer Science or equivalent;
• Technical experience in Computer Networks and/or Cybersecurity;
• Be a motivated teacher, with a thorough and encouraging teaching style;
• Experience in supporting tasks and the willingness to take the responsibility for administrative tasks, such as organisation and coordination of university education and research;
• Professional command of English.

This is what we offer you

We offer a temporary employment contract for 32-28 hours per week for a period of 10 month ending august 2027. The preferred starting date is as soon as possible. The gross monthly salary, based on 38 hours per week and dependent on relevant experience, ranges between € 3,537 to € 4,673 (scale 8). This does not include 8% holiday allowance and 8,3% year-end allowance. The UFO profile Medewerker Onderwijs & Onderzoek is applicable. The Collective Labour Agreement of Universities of the Netherlands is applicable.

You will work in this team

The Faculty of Science has a student body of around 8,000, as well as 1,800 members of staff working in education, research or support services. Researchers and students at the Faculty of Science are fascinated by every aspect of how the world works, be it elementary particles, the birth of the universe or the functioning of the brain. The Informatics Institute is one of the seven educational institutes of the Faculty of Science (FNWI) and is responsible for the master's programmes in Artificial Intelligence, Computational Science, Computer Science, Information Studies, Software Engineering en System and Network Engineering in which currently at around 1400 students are enrolled. The education is provided by lecturers and researchers working within the GSI itself or at various research institutes, including the Instituut voor Informatica (IvI), the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) and the Korteweg-de Vries Instituut voor Wiskunde (KDV).

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Application requirements

Applications should include the following information (all files should be submitted in a .pdf file): a detailed CV including the months (not just years) when referring to your education and work experience; a letter of motivation.

Only complete applications received within the response period will be considered.

We accept applications until and including 31-10-2026.

If you have any questions or do you require additional information? Please contact Kostas Papagiannopoulos via [e-mail]