Senior Network Engineer

Vattenfall is one of Europe’s largest producers and retailers of electricity and heat. Our main markets are Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the UK. The Vattenfall Group has approximately 20,000 employees. We have been electrifying industries, powering homes and transforming life through innovation for more than 100 years. We now want to make fossil free living possible within one generation and we are driving the transition to a sustainable energy system.


Job Description
Vattenfall IT is the internal IT provider for the entire Vattenfall Group with employees in several European countries. We are supporting Vattenfall in its transition to become fossil free within one generation! Do you want to join the journey?
For the Network Operations team we are now looking for an experienced and ambitious Senior Network Engineer. You will join an international team active in six countries, supporting the Vattenfall business units in Stockholm, Berlin, Hamburg and Amsterdam.


Your job as a Senior Network Engineer
In your role you will work with daily network operations towards the Vattenfall Datacenters.


You main focus areas will be:
Maintenance / Operations

-Network operations
-Firewall operation
-Load balancer operation
-Proxy operation
-Switch operation
-Support projects as a project resource


Communicate / cooperate on different levels:

-Internally: monitoring team, solution architects, SOC/ IT Security Service, managers
-Externally: different external providers and sourcing partner


Business trips from time to time required within an international team


Qualifications
We believe that you have at least 7 years of experience in network operations including practical knowledge in analyzing and solving IT problems in a complex landscape. You have good communication skills and are used to work towards all kind on stakeholders (customers, IT department and steering external partners). We believe that you have conceptional knowledge in the area of internal/external DNS and DHCP and/or experience in IPAM operation. As a person you are open minded and willing to learn. You have an independent workstyle while being a team player as well.


Furthermore, we believe that you have technical skills in some of the following areas below, other relevant certifications are preferred:
Security Management Solutions
Experience in operation of Skybox Security Management tool or similar tools like Tufin, Algosec, Firemon is a plus
Solid knowledge in Network (routing / switching) and related protocols
Firewall monitoring and configuration. Both Cisco and Fortigate
DMZ
Software defined networking SDN
Spine Leaf network topology
Using troubleshooting and diagnosing systems
Security Engineering
Experiences with ITIL processes (incident handling, changes, problem management)
Basic scripting knowledge (python, perl, …)



Additional information
Our offer
A permanent job, with room for your personal development.
A healthy work-life balance (flexible working times, home office possibilities) and time to keep your profession as Engineer up to date.
The opportunity to work for a clean energy company that aims for creating fossil free energy within one generation.
A challenging job in an international environment with flexible working hours in the core locations: Stockholm, Berlin, Hamburg, Amsterdam or Gliwice.



Our Organization
Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 20,000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people's homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We now want to make fossil-free living possible within one generation. To be able to reach this ambitious goal we are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission.
We welcome your application in English, including CV and cover letter, not later than October 16th, 2022. For more information about the position, please contact recruiting manager Patric Silfverhielm, +46 702 82 78 33. For questions regarding the process please contact recruiter Elnoosh Farhoudfar, +46 730 60 25 49.
Trade union representatives in Sweden: Sofi Wadström (Akademikerna), Inger Strandberg/Lars-Erik Näsman (Unionen), Christer Gustafsson (Ledarna), Lennart Bengtsson (SEKO). To get in contact with the representatives, please call Vattenfall´s switchboard +46 8 739 50 00.

At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be a good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation. Click here for further information.
Since Vattenfall is a part of the Swedish critical infrastructure, many of our services are security classed. If this position is security classed the final candidates might be subjected to a security vetting process, according to the Swedish legislation.


We look forward to receiving your application!
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