Senior Network Engineer with Architect skills

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.


For the Network Operations team we are now looking for two experienced and ambitious Senior Network Engineers, with Architect skills, who are aiming to become members of 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 Data Management in Network Security Tools and Network Security Solution Design. Your key tasks will include:


• Maintenance / Operations
- User management
- Maintain network devices managed by the Network Security Management (NSM) Tool
- Ensure that the NSM Tool follows the latest Vattenfall security standards and compliancy baseline
- 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


About you
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 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
• 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 (e.g.python, perl, JavaScript)


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 one of the core locations: Stockholm, Berlin, Hamburg, Amsterdam or Gliwice.


Location: Flexible, in one of our 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 November 22nd, 2020. For more information about the position, tasks and responsibilities please contact Patric Silfverhielm, +46 702 82 78 33. For questions related to other parts of the employment please contact hiring manager Dirk Hupfeld +49 152 54 62 76 25. 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 striving for diversity helps building a more profitable, efficient and attractive company. We continue to seek a harmonious balance of employees in terms of gender, age, ethnic and cultural backgrounds.


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.