Project specialist - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Kawader Human Resources Consultancy

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    Description

    VIB is anentrepreneurial non-profit research institute, with a clear focuson ground-breaking strategic basic research in life sciences andoperates in close partnership with the five universities inFlanders Ghent University, KU Leuven, University of Antwerp, VrijeUniversiteit Brussel, and Hasselt University.

    Toreinforce our IT team, the Flemish Institute for Biotechnology VIBin Zwijnaarde is looking for an IT system administrator/engineer.You will be part of the IT team of VIB, which maintains the networkbackbone, data center with physical and virtual servers, andstorage array as well as user services and applications andend-user computers. Together with other team members, you will beresponsible for maintaining and improving our centralized ITinfrastructure.

    Responsibilities

    • Installing, maintaining, upgrading, andoptimizing the network infrastructure to ensure a robust and secureenvironment
    • Designing custom infrastructuresolutions for our scientists
    • Maintaining andoptimizing our virtualizedenvironments
    • Proactively contribute to theimprovement of the quality of the services andinfrastructure

    Qualifications

    • Bachelor'sdegree in computer science and/or equivalent through demonstratedrelevant
    • Experience as a system- and/or networkadministrator
    • You have a broad knowledge of ITinfrastructure
    • Experience in administrating a(complex) network
    • You are motivated to helpimprove the infrastructure according to best practices and followthe latest innovations
    • You have experience inusing Linux environments.
    • You know when to usewindows, Linux and Unix.
    • You have excellentknowledge of at least 3 from the following: Cisco, radius networks,Active Directory, VMWare, scripting/automation, network security,mail relay, firewall, OpenStack
    • You arecommunicative and can work independently in a teamcontext
    • Experience with Office365, Azure ad,and azure virtualization is an asset
    • Experiencewith scripting and continuous integration is aplus
    • You have a good knowledge of written andspoken English
    • Knowledge of written and spokenDutch is an asset

    How toapply?

    Motivated candidates are asked to applyonline.