IT Infrastructure Designer

Van Oord is an ambitious entrepreneurial organization. ‘We create’, ‘We care’, ‘We work together’ and ‘We succeed’ are our company values. As the Infra/Cloud Solution Designer you will play an important role in our purpose: “To create a better world for future generations by delivering Marine Ingenuity”. 

Located in Rotterdam, our information technology department supports our global organisation in successfully executing our projects by delivering shared & enabling platform capabilities, landscape planning, and ensuring continuity & cybersecurity of our services. We apply a pragmatic approach, keeping close relationships with business stakeholders to make sure we deliver what our customers need in a language that is familiar and understood. 

Our business landscape is undergoing significant transformation in key areas of finance, supply chain, procurement, HR, fleet- and asset management. Major goals to achieve are increased operational excellence, becoming fully data driven, and growing our digital capabilities around our processes and company ecosystem.  

We are transforming our IT landscape to become mostly platform- and cloud-based, in support of data and/or digital initiatives – with new platforms being realized for data, integration and low-code. We are transforming our way of working to become more Agile and adopt a product centric mindset. We are proud of our knowledgeable and experienced IT staff, applying a no-nonsense approach when needed. There is never a boring moment - with lots of challenges & innovations, in a world where ‘constant change’ is the only constant.

YOUR IMPACT

• Offering advice & insights on technical infrastructure solutions
• Design new or optimised infrastructure solutions, in close collaboration with the domain Architect Infra/Cloud.
• Align with business, IT, architects and project stakeholders on requirements (functional to technical translation) to ensure scalability, flexibility, performance and security.
• Be involved in the delivery of business projects/programs.
• Align with operational IT disciplines to implement, renew, improve current solutions.
• Automation minded, identify opportunities, design to best practices, enforce standardisation and efficiency based on compliancy and security requirements.
• Contributes in producing and maintaining HLD documentation and related architectural deliverables for business and IT projects.
• Contributes to the creation of HLD or similar documents in business and IT projects
• Provide designs (HLD, LLD) and guidance towards our engineering teams.
• Provide expert guidance to IT operations teams in resolving complex domain-related issues.
• Work with Product Owner(s) on defining lifecycle and roadmap needs.

ABOUT YOU

• A master’s degree or work level experience.
• At least 5 years of infrastructure and cloud solution designer experience, and at least 2 years of tangible solution architecture experience in an international environment
• Strong knowledge of networking, server virtualization, security technology, Microsoft Azure and container services
• Decent presentation and influencing/negotiation skills
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, but driving for a practical outcome (!)
• A natural willingness / eagerness to drive change
• Comfortable with creating visualizations, designs, and architecture materials
• Experienced in working in multi-disciplinary teams in a constantly changing environment
• Fluent in English – and we prefer native Dutch speakers.

WE OFFER

• A salary that matches your responsibilities and experience
• 32 leave days of which a max. of 7 days can be appointed as collective leave days
• A pension scheme
• A variable bonus
• Extensive learning and (personal) development possibilities
• An adequate travel allowance (0.31 cents/km)
• Collective health insurance (optional);
• Flexible working hours and flexible (remote) work location