Network Engineer at Keylane

We're seeking a seasoned Network Engineer to help us build a robust, scalable network infrastructure. As a Network Engineer you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing our network infrastructure to support our growing SaaS applications. Your expertise will be essential in ensuring the security, reliability, and performance of our network infrastructure.

Key about your role

You are at your best when you have automated all our chores away and ready to spend time innovating our platform from a network perspective. Beside the daily maintenance and management of our network infrastructures you will participate in or initiate our change and improvement projects. Projects such as: the transition from NSX to Cisco ACI, selecting and replacing the new network components (switches, firewalls), decommissioning the legacy cluster and most of all designing and improving on our secure and hardened network architecture. 

Within your role you will be expected to work with; Cisco (ASA, ISR, Nexus, ACI) and Nvidia (Mellanox) components, VMware NSX virtualized networking solutions.

Key about you

You are a network engineer who has experience with managing and automating network infrastructures for office automation and software defined data center infrastructures, hosting business applications and SaaS services on a high availability basis.

Security is the backbone of all that we do and a major part of your concerns, our customers rely on us to work safely and you as network engineer hold the key to our front door, security is coded into your DNA.

You have extensive knowledge of and experience with OSPF, BGP, HSRP, VPC, IPSEC VPN, SNAT/DNAT, PBR.

Furthermore, we think it is important that:

• You have at least a Bèta degree or comparable experience
• You have solid knowledge of and extensive experience setting up, maintaining and managing network infrastructures.
• You are a team player and work pro-actively, have a flexible mindset and are client oriented, most of all you keep cool under pressure.
• You think in challenges instead of in problems and the dynamic environment of a fast growing company is something which attracts you 

We consider it a plus if you have:

• Knowledge of Linux (RHEL) and/or Windows (Server);
• Cisco or comparable certification.

*A Certificate of Conduct (VOG) and reference check are part of the application process.

Key about your team

As a Senior Network Engineer, you’ll be a vital member of our IT team of 18 professionals, dedicated to maintaining a virtual private cloud environment for our top-tier SaaS applications. Our team operates across The Netherlands and India, with your primary base in our Utrecht office, working alongside 13 colleagues specializing in Networking, Virtualization, Backup, Security, Monitoring, and more.

In this important role, you’ll support an IT infrastructure that serves around 35 major clients in the pension and insurance sectors, impacting millions of customers across Western Europe. Our platform services include Dell and Cisco hardware and a fully virtualized server cluster using the complete VMware suite.

This diverse IT landscape offers many challenges and opportunities. You’ll use your expertise to create robust environments, foster collaboration across departments, and optimize our digital infrastructure. We are committed to staying at the forefront of IT innovation and look forward to your contributions as a key member of our team.

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Keylane offers

• A monthly gross salary between € 5,000 and € 6,000 based on 40 hours per week;
• 8% holiday allowance of your total gross salary;
• A profit share;
• Travel reimbursement: a NS Business card or mileage allowance (€ 0.23 per km);
• 24 holiday days (with the option to buy extra) and 7 inclusion days, which can be exchanged with fixed Dutch national holidays, allowing you to take them when you like;
• A pension scheme, with the option to save extra;
• A comprehensive vitality offer to help you stay healthy. Read more here;
• A one-year contract that, subject to satisfactory performance, will be converted into a permanent contract;
• Flexibility in working environment. As part of a hybrid working team, you will work partly from home and partly from the office. If you work in the office, a free lunch is waiting for you every day. If you work from home, you will receive a working from home allowance (€ 4 net per day) and internet allowance (€ 35 net per month);
• The possibility of working remotely from abroad for up to 2 months per year;
• The opportunity to develop yourself at our Academy through courses and training, both professionally and personally;
• An active and fun community of ‘Keylaners’. We also have after work drinks at our in-house pub every Thursday.

About Keylane Property & Casualty

As the leading European supplier of robust, highly configurable and customer-centric SaaS platforms to the insurance industry, Keylane offers solutions that optimise today’s business processes, unburdens our clients and empowers them to be future-fit and agile.

With Axon, we aim to foster trust and empower lasting partnerships by providing an all-in-one SaaS platform that ensures a 24/7 uptime for our customers. We provide and implement continuous upgrades at no additional costs, guaranteeing that our customers are able to comply with the latest rules and regulations. Coupled with our commitment to backwards compatibility, we are a partner our clients can rely on with a platform that always delivers.

We will not consider unsolicited services or offers from recruitment agencies or intermediaries.