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# Network Engineer

- **Company:** It Recruitment
- **Location:** Leiden, Netherlands
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Border Gateway Protocol, Monitoring of Systems, Icinga, Internet Protocol Security (IP SEC), Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Network Security, Routing, Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Overlay Transport Virtualization, Ansible, Computer Networking Systems, Transport Layer Security, System Availability, Grafana, Virtual Environment, Juniper, Software Version Control
- **Published:** September 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.nl/jobad/nlfdfb8e92f7e8f1e9ec12959e98136efb

## About the Role

* Excellent knowledge of Network Security and firewalling
 * Excellent knowledge of Juniper & Arista switches and routers
 * Good knowledge of configuration automation tools like Ansible
 * Good working knowledge of (routing) protocols like IS-IS, OSPF, BGP, VXLan, EVPN, etc.
 * Good knowledge of VPN and encryption technologies (IPSEC, SSL)
 * Good knowledge of *nix operating systems.
 * Good knowledge of monitoring systems (LibreNMS, TSDB systems, Grafana, etc.)
 * Working experience in a *nix environment
 * Working experience of virtual environments and High availability
 * And last but not least: Excellent troubleshooting skills

## Description

IT Recruitment is looking for her client in Leiden for a Network Engineer. This is a influential role that demands a high level of creativity and a genuine passion for new technology and methods. Working in a team of highly-skilled technologists, this role is responsible for maintaining the systems that ensure our operation runs 24/7/365.
The applications we support have to be highly reliable, highly scalable and take full advantage of our platform and global reach. The organisation prides itself on the creative use of technology. As the boundary between the application-layer and platform-layer becomes increasingly blurred, this role is pivotal and demands a broad technical understanding and passion for the Hosting industry.
What your day will look like

 * Part-of the Infrastructure & Engineering team deploying and maintaining highly reliable, highly scalable systems and applications
 * To expand, configure, support, maintain and administer the Team.Blue internal and external networks.
 * Manage and monitor the network and enforce security.
 * To utilize and support the monitoring systems, used for monitoring the network and distribution, including, but not limited to Grafana, LibreNMS, Icinga etc.
 * Provide support, exception handling and mentoring regarding networking systems and security to relevant Operational teams, and other support teams
 * Collaborating with users; translate user needs into solutions, manage tools through their entire life-cycle; including documentation and version control.


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