Linux Engineer

We're seeking a skilled Linux systems engineer to help us build a robust, scalable virtual platform. As an experienced Linux Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in managing, maintaining, and automating our Linux-based infrastructure, ensuring optimal performance and reliability.

Key abour your role

You are at your best when you have automated all our chores away and ready to spend time innovating our platform from a operating system perspective. Besides the daily maintenance and management of our Red Hat Linux / Vmware powered virtual infrastructures you will participate in or initiate our change and improvement projects.

Within your role you will be expected to work with; RHEL 8/9, Satellite, VMware, Kubernetes/Openshift, Puppet, Ansible, scripting tooling, etc.

Key about you

You are a skilled (Red Hat) Linux systems engineer with extensive experience in managing, maintaining, and automating Linux-based server infrastructures in a (private) cloud environment. Your expertise lies in automating routine tasks and focusing on innovating our virtual platform. In addition to automating daily maintenance and management of the Linux side of our hosting platform, you actively participate in our improvement projects.

Furthermore, we think it’s important that you have:

• Extensive experience with Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (or a comparable Linux flavor), and large virtual environments managed with VMware in large (private) cloud environments.
• Proficiency in developing Bash and/or Python scripts, and infrastructure automation using Puppet and Ansible.
• Red Hat certification (RHCSA, RHCE, etc.) or equivalent working experience.
• Experience with container platforms like OpenShift and Kubernetes, and knowledge of CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with monitoring tools such as CheckMK and Elastic, and a basic understanding of network technology. 

*A Certificate of Conduct (VOG) and reference check are part of the application process.

Key about your team

As a Senior Linux Engineer, you’ll be a vital member of our IT team of 18 professionals, dedicated to maintaining a virtual private cloud environment for our top-tier SaaS applications. Our team operates across The Netherlands and India, with your primary base in our Utrecht office, working alongside 13 colleagues specializing in Networking, Virtualization, Backup, Security, Monitoring, and more. 

In this important role, you’ll support an IT infrastructure that serves around 35 major clients in the pension and insurance sectors, impacting millions of customers across Western Europe. Our platform services include Dell and Cisco hardware and a fully virtualized server cluster using the complete VMware suite.

This diverse IT landscape offers many challenges and opportunities. You’ll use your expertise to create robust environments, foster collaboration across departments, and optimize our digital infrastructure. We are committed to staying at the forefront of IT innovation and look forward to your contributions as a key member of our team.

Check out our blog posts and videos to see what it is like to work at Keylane. 

Keylane offers

• A monthly gross salary between € 5,000 and € 6,000 based on 40 hours per week;
• 8% holiday allowance of your total gross salary;
• A profit share;
• Travel reimbursement: a NS Business card or mileage allowance (€ 0.23 per km);
• 24 holiday days (with the option to buy extra) and 7 inclusion days, which can be exchanged with fixed Dutch national holidays, allowing you to take them when you like;
• A pension scheme, with the option to save extra;
• A comprehensive vitality offer to help you stay healthy. Read more here;
• A one-year contract that, subject to satisfactory performance, will be converted into a permanent contract;
• Flexibility in working environment. As part of a hybrid working team, you will work partly from home and partly from the office. If you work in the office, a free lunch is waiting for you every day. If you work from home, you will receive a working from home allowance (€ 4 net per day) and internet allowance (€ 35 net per month);
• The possibility of working remotely from abroad for up to 2 months per year;
• The opportunity to develop yourself at our Academy through courses and training, both professionally and personally;
• An active and fun community of ‘Keylaners’. We also have after work drinks at our in-house pub every Thursday.

About Keylane Property & Casualty

As the leading European supplier of robust, highly configurable and customer-centric SaaS platforms to the insurance industry, Keylane offers solutions that optimise today’s business processes, unburdens our clients and empowers them to be future-fit and agile.

With Axon, we aim to foster trust and empower lasting partnerships by providing an all-in-one SaaS platform that ensures a 24/7 uptime for our customers. We provide and implement continuous upgrades at no additional costs, guaranteeing that our customers are able to comply with the latest rules and regulations. Coupled with our commitment to backwards compatibility, we are a partner our clients can rely on with a platform that always delivers.

We will not consider unsolicited services or offers from recruitment agencies or intermediaries.