Position: Senior Network Engineer (general) - Volksbank Netherlands
Company: y² techies
Category: Sysadmin
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2023-08-01T00:00:00+03:00

**y² techies**
We are a company that helps IT talent from conflict zones to have a save and stable living in the Netherlands, where housing and all relocation costs will be covered by us. We do this by matching the IT talent with projects at top 500 companies. The process is that we find, hire, relocate and coach the employee. For 1 year the employee will be under contract of y² techies. After that the employee will transition to the Volksbank which will provide an permanent contract with additional benefits.

**The Volksbank**
The Volksbank is a Dutch systemic bank with 4 labels (SNS Bank, Regiobank, BGL Wonen and ASN Bank) and has more than 3 million mainly private customers. More than 800 IT professionals work at the Volksbank and we are constantly looking for new colleagues. The IT Platform department employs 250 IT people in 30 DevOps teams. One of those teams is the Connectivity team, which has everything related to the network in its portfolio.

Together with your 10 colleagues from the Connectivity team, you ensure the security, continuity, high availability and accessibility of the basic platform on which all de Volksbank systems and applications run. Responsible for one fixed part? On the contrary: with us you get to work with everything that affects our network security infrastructure: upgrading firewalls, writing improvement proposals, checking scripts of a colleague to automate standard actions, brainstorming with other IT departments about the security of the ( Cloud) data centers of the future…
In sprints of two weeks you work in a team of 8 on shared goals, aimed at further developing network security, standardization and automation. You also have a lot of contact with colleagues who you will help to further professionalize the security of the various services within de Volksbank. You do not only look at the issues from your own frame of reference, but also from those of other disciplines. Every working day you start with a daily stand-up, in which you go through the tasks with your scrum team and briefly discuss what everyone is encountering. Then you get started with your tasks. You will work in a hybrid setup with 1-2 days in the office.

You never quite know what your days will bring. Naturally, any disruptions to the network infrastructure cannot be controlled. In extreme cases, it's all hands on deck. Together with your team, you ensure that incidents are resolved quickly and optimally. You are also responsible for proper reporting. In addition, you run stand-by shifts and your colleagues can always reach you with questions. There is also an occasional emergency job in between, for example an update to further secure the network. The bank is a 24/7 business with high quality obligations. You understand that our customers should be inconvenienced as little as possible by these changes. You often carry out these changes outside regular working hours. Fortunately, with us you get control over your working hours.

**About the department** 
You are part of the Connectivity team, which is responsible for maintaining and improving the basic platform of de Volksbank. A close-knit team of about ten colleagues who are there for each other and consider it important that our customers can use our network infrastructure and services anytime, anywhere. There is a lot of mutual contact. About work, but also about each other's ups and downs. There is also plenty of room within the team for relaxation and fun. We regularly organize activities such as drinks and team events. There also company wide events like a yearly BBQ that you can join.

**Required technical skills**
When we look at your skills we look more at expertise in a certain area then usage of specific tooling. But we added the tooling to give you insight in the stack that is used by the team.

**Network overall**
    a.	Data center network - Arista
    b.	DNS, DHCP, IPAM - Infoblox
    c.	Firewall - Palo Alto
    d.	Load Balancing - A10
    e.	Remote access - PulseSecure
    f.	        SysProxy - Fortinet
    g.	PeopleProxy - zScaler
    h.	Anti DDOS - RioRey, Akamai
    i.	        WiFi central components
    j.	        Third party network providers (service knowledge)
    k.	Office network large wired and Wifi - Aruba
    l.	        Office network small (shops) wired and Wifi
   m.	WAN
    n.	Routing
    o.	Internet connectivity (internet irt routing) including BGP supplemented with study
    p.	Aruba CP (Clear Pass)
    q.	PRTG, Grafana, Prometheus
    r.	        Cloud Vision Portal
    s.	        LibreNMS
    t.	        AWS
    u.	Kubernetes

**Virtualization**
    a.	VMWare
    b.	vSphere (vCenter + ESXi)
    c.	Auto Deploy (Host Profiles / PXE boot / Infoblox)

**Storages**
    a.	SAN (storage area network)
    b.	3par

**Automation**
    a.	Ansible
    b.	Python
    c.	Git / Bitbucket 

**Required Soft Skills**
1.	Critical thinking
2.	Problem solving
3.	Giving Feedback 
4.	Conflict Resolution
5.	Pressure/Stress Resistance
6.	Ownership/taking responsibility
7.	Independent and proactive work attitude

**Required background**
1.	Bachelor level education 
2.	At least five years of experience in managing a complex network infrastructure
3.	Thorough knowledge of agile and scrum
4.	Relevant certifications, such as CCNA and CCNP or equivalent level

You have a heart for the business and find it important that our IT services are continuously improving. This way you dare to give your opinion about solutions and you like to be and stay informed of the latest developments in your field, such as cloud solutions. You also have a great sense of responsibility: you like to go the extra mile, both for your customers and your colleagues. And will we have to deal with unexpected things? You are ready, have an action plan ready in no time and make the right choices - even under high pressure. 

**Offer**

1. Salary
The salary for this position is between €42.000 to €70.000* gross per year excluding bonusses for 40 hours per week. For the Dutch course we give an extra increase €1.500,- in yearly salary after reaching B1 level of Dutch language course. Another €1.500,- increase after reaching B2 level;
*Do mind that insurances, pension, housing costs(rent, energy, internet) and transportation are already covered.

2. Coaching & Courses
Quite quickly you will have an intake with our career coach whit whom you will discuss your desired carreer path. This way we can help you to develop the way you want.

You will start with a course about work floor culture in the Netherlands and Dutch language courses. Learning the culture and the language ensures that employees have more success building up a living in the Netherlands. It also helps with being more successful in projects.

3. Red carpet relocation & housing
We will arrange all the required steps for you to have a easy start in the Netherlands. We will arrange Housing, furniture, energy, internet and transportation. In addition to this we will help you with finding daycare or the best school for your children. And we will help to guide you with all standard administrative items when moving to the Netherlands. Of course you need to do some stuff yourself, but we will point you in the right direction and answer the questions you have along the way.

4. Transition of employment to Volksbank
After about a the employment will transition to the Volksbank which offers interesting and flexible extra benefits:
1.	Increased salary.
2.	A 36-hour working week, which can be arranged flexibly with, for example, 4x9;
3.	An individual choice budget (IKB), with which you choose when you receive your holiday pay and thirteenth month;
4.	A good collective pension scheme, with a contribution from de Volksbank of 22.5% of the salaries;
5.	Working from home is very normal for us;
6.	A personal training budget of 750 euros per year, in addition to the standard training options;
7.	A home office allowance of 40 euros net per month and a budget of 900 euros every 5 years to set up your home office;
8.	An NS-Business Card and a reimbursement per km if you cycle to work; 
9.	A bicycle plan to buy a bicycle cheaply; 
10.	Partially paid voluntary work; 
11.	A vitality program with workshops and coaching for your mental and physical health;
12.	A laptop and phone.

**Hiring process**
We take big pride in making our hiring process as efficient as possible. Our process consists of the following steps:
1.	We check your CV within 24 hours of submission
2.	We ask you to fill out a form to rate your own expertise
3.	We have 1st short Teams call with y² techies about your background, experience and current situation
4.	We have a 2nd Teams call with the manager at Volksbank.
5.     An online assesment to check your skills
6.     We have a 3rd Teams call with the team itself to have0 a deeper dive into your technical and personal fit with the team
7.	We make you an offer and plan your relocation

If you are interested please contact us and we will respond as quickly as possible.

*Due to the martial law male candidates can’t move out of Ukraine. Unfortunately we had to many bad experiences with candidates which claimed they can leave the country while in the end they couldn’t. As such, we are forced to only accept female applicants for relocation to the Netherlands.