Senior Data Center engineer

Senior Data Center Engineer Opportunity at ING Nederland

ING is looking for a Senior Data Center engineer for a permanent role based in Rotterdam.

Are you skilled and experienced in Data Centre operations with a positive can-do mindset and a passion for networks, mechanics, technics, and electronics?

Are you a real team player?

Do you have a set of competencies that allow you to plan and deliver in a structured way?

If you continuously strive to improve yourself and your colleagues, you could be ING’s next Data Centre Specialist and help us manage our Global Data Centres.

The team

The team you will be joining is a multidisciplinary and cross-functional team with end-to-end responsibility for Global Data Centres Services and the delivery of these services to ING’s business. You will work closely with other teams within ING.

As a Data Centre Specialist, you are a member of the Global Data Centres Services department. This department contains four teams: Operations 1 (OPS1), Operations 2 (OPS2), Hardware as a Service (HaaS), and Centre of Excellence (CoE). OPS1 is responsible for all hard services within the ING Global Data Centres, such as maintaining and developing the Data Centre cooling and electrical grid. HaaS is responsible for receiving, storing, delivering, and decommissioning all IT infrastructure within the Data Centres. CoE is responsible for advising, risk control, and auditing specialized on Data Centres.

Roles and responsibilities

You will work in the team of OPS2, responsible for all activities within the white space and warehouse of the ING Data Centres. These activities include managing the overall capacity for power, cooling, and rack space for optimal Data Centre usage and scalability. You will be responsible for the physical access and security to all data halls, supervising and coordinating physical IMACD activities (Install, Move, Add Change, or Decommissioning of ICT infrastructure), and checking the work performed. You will install and maintain the Power Distribution Units in the data halls and manage applications such as a Data Centre Infrastructure Management (DCIM) application and lock management. OPS2 includes a development team to optimize and automate our processes and applications via a Data Centre Portal.

As a Data Centre Specialist, you are responsible for designing, coordinating, and maintaining the physical infrastructure of our global high-availability Data Centres. You will work closely with our stakeholders to realize the needs of their continuously changing IT landscape. Design and optimize data centre architectures, considering factors such as network connectivity, power distribution, cooling capacity/density, security, and scalability. Create and manage a capacity management map and define design boundaries.

You will be working with multiple applications for Data Centre management where you give input and deliver optimized solutions. You continuously strive to improve yourself and your colleagues. You have a broad and diverse set of competencies that allow you to operate between various teams and build a network. You help others to be successful and remain a step ahead. You have creative problem-solving skills and will be expected to come up with solutions to problems at hand, as opposed to waiting for orders.

To be considered for this position, you must be knowledgeable about managing Data Centres white space, cabling, power principles, capacity planning, and installations.

How to succeed

We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself.

• Directing and project management mindset with strong communication skills.

• Proven technical knowledge in Structured cabling system, implementation, and troubleshooting/problem solving.

• Good knowledge of the electrical and mechanical systems involved in data centre operations.

• Both team player and independent and autonomous.

• You are energetic, enthusiastic, and eager to learn.

• You take it on and make it happen.

• You have an end-to-end ownership mindset.

• Networking skills are a pre.

Your education and background

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience, preferably electro-technical or ICT.

• 5+ years of experience working in data centres environment with an emphasis on design, installation, and capacity planning.

• Certificates such as CDCS, CTDC, or equivalent.

• Good understanding of and experience with data centre technologies.

• Excellent communication skills in Dutch and good communication skills in English, both written and verbal.

Rewards and benefits

We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. The benefits of working with us at ING include:

• A salary tailored to your qualities and experience

• 24-27 vacation days depending on contract

• Pension scheme

• 13th month salary

• Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary

• 8% Holiday payment

• Hybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation

• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities

• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

If you are designated by your lead for stand-by shifts to be available for incidents outside of your regular working hours, a Stand-by compensation is awarded.

About us

With 60,000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries, there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of what’s possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer’s interests at heart? Do you want to be surrounded by progressive, inspiring, diverse, and supportive colleagues? Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at ING.