About the Position

Senior VMware / Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

To support the continued growth of our SaaS services and hosting platform, we are looking for an experienced infrastructure specialist to join the Core-IT team.

Location: Utrecht (NL)

Department: Software Engineering

Language: English

Salary: €4400 - €5800 per month

About Your Team

You will be part of the international Core-IT team, working from our Utrecht office and remotely. The team ensures the continuity, compliance, and security of Keylane hosting platforms, so our customers can rely on a stable and secure SaaS service.

The Core-IT team's capabilities include virtualization, cloud infrastructure, network engineering, Cisco ACI, logging and monitoring, security management, backup, storage, and hardware lifecycle management. We work in an agile way and take ownership of automating and improving the platforms we run.

There is room for professional development, certification, knowledge sharing, and innovation. Part of your time will be dedicated to improvements that add value to the organization and to the quality of our services.

About Your Role

As Senior VMware / Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you help provide a stable and secure infrastructure platform for Keylane SaaS services. You manage the platform across stability, resilience, performance, capacity, lifecycle management, and security, and you work closely with architects and engineers during improvements, migrations, and production incidents.

You contribute to the design, build, and operation of the next-generation platform, with a strong focus on VMware Cloud Foundation, vSphere, vSAN, NSX, automation, and hybrid cloud connectivity. You also help manage the transition from legacy environments to modern, standardized, and automated platform services.

Responsibilities

• Designing, developing, and deploying VMware and cloud infrastructure solutions;
• Operating and improving VMware Cloud Foundation, vSphere, vSAN, NSX, and related platform services;
• Maintaining and improving hybrid cloud connectivity, network integration, and platform segmentation;
• Contributing to Cisco ACI related design, integration, and operational activities where applicable;
• Identifying, analyzing, and resolving infrastructure vulnerabilities, capacity risks, and application deployment issues;
• Installing and maintaining operating systems, service packs, security patches, and bug fixes;
• Monitoring platform health, performance, capacity, and availability, and making recommendations for improvement;
• Automating recurring operational activities and standardizing deployment and management processes;
• Collaborating with architects, network engineers, security specialists, and application teams during changes and incidents.

Requirements

• Hold a BSc in Computer Science, IT Infrastructure, or a comparable level of experience;
• Good communication and cooperation skills, with the ability to work in an international team;
• Availability to help resolve urgent production issues outside business hours when needed;
• Good understanding of networking concepts, e.g., routing, switching, VLANs, load balancing, firewalls, segmentation, and network troubleshooting;
• Exposure to Cisco ACI or comparable software-defined networking platforms;
• Experience with VMware technologies, e.g., vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, NSX, and VMware Cloud Foundation;
• Experience with VMware Aria / VCF Operations or comparable monitoring, automation, and operations tooling;
• Experience with hybrid cloud environments and connectivity between private cloud, public cloud, and customer environments;
• Experience in designing, implementing, and managing virtual storage, software-defined networking, capacity, and performance tuning;
• Experience with Linux and/or Windows Server environments and VDI solutions.

We Offer

• A monthly gross salary between €4400 and €5800 based on 40 hours per week;
• 8% holiday allowance of your total gross salary;
• A profit share;
• A pension scheme, with the option to save extra;
• Travel reimbursement: Receive a mileage allowance of €0.23 per km or an NS Business Card, which can also be used for personal travel;
• 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;
• 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 possibility to lease a bike through our bike leasing program;
• A one-year contract that, subject to satisfactory performance, will be converted into a permanent contract;
• The opportunity to develop yourself at our Academy through courses and training, both professionally and personally;
• A comprehensive vitality offer to help you stay healthy. Read more here;
• An active and fun community of ‘Keylaners’. We also have after-work drinks at our in-house pub every Thursday.

About the Company

Keylane drives industry standards by developing best practices in SaaS services and application hosting. We operate our own data centers, which enables us to remain in control of the infrastructure supporting large and complex SaaS implementations.

Keylane Academy

Develop yourself every day!

To support our mission to empower the insurance and pension industry with the best solutions and the brightest experts, the Keylane Academy offers extensive career development support for Keylaners at all career levels.

We offer our employees:

• Extensive product trainings
• Courses to understand the insurance & pension industries
• Access to thousands of e-learning courses via digital platforms
• Personal development courses
• Leadership programmes
• Best in class language courses
• Consulting track
• Personal growth and career goals courses
• And many more

More about the academy

Hiring Process

1. Application: Share your CV and we’ll review your background to see how your skills match our team.
2. Informal phone call: Get to know each other, discuss your motivation, and learn what it’s like to work at Keylane.
3. First interview: Meet your future hiring team to talk about your experience and what drives you.
4. Second interview: Dive deeper into your skills with a case or technical talk and meet more of the team.
5. Job offer: If we’re both excited, we’ll make you an offer and discuss start date and onboarding.

People Stories

We have an open, ambitious culture. When you work with us, you contribute to a dynamic, international organization, full of eager, cooperative experts. Read the real story of real people.

• Starting as a Junior Consultant at Keylane: Madelief’s experience
• DevOps Engineer – A Portrait of Hielke
• Meet Chidozie | Software Engineer at Keylane
• Award-Winning Keylane Kitchen in Copenhagen
• Work From Abroad – Amir’s Month in Madrid
• VP DevOps – A Portrait of Bernie
• Francis - Infrastructure Engineer at Keylane
• Eline - Management Consultant at Keylane
• Test Engineer – A Portrait of Madhuri
• Johnny – A Senior DevOps Consultant

Fun

There is no company like Keylane.

• Many years of company softball, one bat in the bushes
• Keylane AI Hackathon: Innovation Through Real Workflows
• Keylane Alumni Drinks
• DevOlympics : Ready, steady, go!
• A day at De Kuip: life at Keylane on Feyenoord’s pitch
• Holi Celebration at Keylane
• Keylane Playground: Pub Quiz
• Keylane Skilane - Skiing with Colleagues
• Keylane Inclusion Days - Flexible Holiday Policy
• Life at Keylane - Sports, Social Events & Activities

Want to know more about this job?

Malak Eltonsy

Talent Acquisition Specialist

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