Senior Network Engineer - Vattenfall IT

Vattenfall has a vision to be fossil-free withing one generation. For the Network Operations team we are now looking for an experienced and ambitious Senior Network Engineer (f/m/d) who’s aiming to become member of an international team active in six countries supporting the Vattenfall business units while being located in the Vattenfall headquarters in Stockholm.


Your job as a Senior Network Engineer (f/m/d)
In your role you will act as an interface between our internal customer and our sourcing partner.
You should be passionate about the job and enjoy a fast-developing international working environment. Your working results will take customer satisfaction and Network delivery to the next level. Your job is to act as an interface between our internal customer and our sourcing partner. You’re also expected to support those areas that are not outsourced for legal reasons.


Your key tasks will include:
• Translate customer demands into solutions
• Maintain our product portfolio; develop/verify/agree network related standards, solutions and processes
• Quality assurance towards our sourcing partner for Datacenter-Network, LAN and WAN
- Check if proposals are fitting to the customer demands and to the Vattenfall standards
- Check if documentation was updated accordingly
- Check if lifecycle management is executed according to the agreements
• Cooperate with the Security Team (SOC)
• Check/follow-up root cause analyses provided by our sourcing partner after a critical incident occurred
• Support projects as a project resource for both, the outsourced and non-outsourced services
• Communicate / cooperate on several levels:
- Internal: monitoring team, solution architects, service managers, security and customer
- External: external providers and sourcing partner
• Business trips from time to time are required as a member of an international team


Your profile as a Senior Network Engineer (f/m/d)
• You have a relevant university degree and/or several years of experience within the field.
• You are open minded and willing to learn.
• 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 an independent / autonomous workstyle while being a team player as well.
• You are a good communicator (fluent English) towards all kind of stakeholders (customers, IT department and suppliers/external partners).
• You have experience in steering of external partners.
• You have technical skills/experience in the following areas; relevant certifications are preferred:
- Cisco Routing/Switching, WLAN
- Understanding solution design and operation of IP, DNS (int./ext.) and DHCP
- Checkpoint/FortiGate Firewalling
- Good understanding of Proxies, Load Balancers and IPS devices is preferred
- RAS, VPN, Security Engineering and network overlays (VXLAN, SD-WAN)
- Usage of troubleshooting and diagnostic tools
- Experience with ITIL processes (incidents, changes, problems)
- Basic scripting knowledge (python, perl, …), experience in network automation


What we offer
At Vattenfall, we are convinced that striving for diversity helps building a more profitable, efficient and attractive company. Therefore we seek a harmonious balance of employees in terms of age, religion, gender identity & expression, sexual identity, disability and ethnic background.
Vattenfall is more than "just" an interesting job in a results-oriented company. You will be part of a challenging, complex and international working environment. We offer competitive remuneration, a company pension scheme and opportunities for training and personal development.


Our Organisation
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.


More Information
For further information regarding the recruitment process you are welcome to contact recruiter Teri-Anne Brink teri-anne.brink@vattenfall.com
We look forward to your application in English with a cover letter, curriculum vitae and relevant certificates or references. Please apply directly via our application link. Please note that we will only start the selection process after the application period has expired.


Last date of application- 7th of August 2022
Location: Stockholm (Solna)


Due to COVID-19 we adapted our application process to the current conditions. Interviews regarding this position will be conducted via video conference.
Trade union representatives in Sweden: Vatkovic Silvija Lilja (Akademikerna), Inger Strandberg (Unionen), Christer Gustafsson (Ledarna), Lennart Bengtsson (SEKO). To get in contact with the representatives, please call Vattenfall's switchboard +46 8 739 50 00.
Since Vattenfall is part of the Swedish critical infrastructure many of our positions are security classed. If this position is security classed the final candidates can be subject to a Security Vetting process, according to Swedish legislation.


We look forward to your application.
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