Position Overview

Our client is looking for a DevOps / PaaS engineer to join our Windows infrastructure team, focusing especially on storage management using NetApp/ONTAP and the surrounding systems. You will help automate, operate, monitor, maintain, and improve the storage environment, with much of your work involving scripting, lifecycle management, and infrastructure‑as‑code methods. The overall environment supports Windows Server platforms and is critical to our work in national educational and governmental IT infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Automate, administer, check and analyze the NetApp/ONTAP storage environment and related systems
• Maintain and evolve infrastructure components to keep pace with changing requirements, ensuring high availability and reducing incidents
• Write scripts and use automation tools to manage deployments and infrastructure changes
• Support the rollout of new or modified infrastructure (including pilot / test phases), evaluate results and recommend improvements
• Advise stakeholders on storage, Windows infrastructure, and potential technology choices
• Maintain vendor relations, and coordinate with connected parties in the broader network environment
• Make infrastructure improvements using PaaS (Platform as a Service) practices, infrastructure‑as‑code tools (e.g. Ansible, GitLab), and Windows Server lifecycle management

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s level or equivalent thinking and working level in system administration or related field
• At least 3 years’ recent experience with NetApp/ONTAP clustering, CIFS/NFS file services, replication (e.g. SnapMirror), client connectivity, and monitoring tools (e.g. Active IQ)
• Solid knowledge of certificates, firewall, compute, storage, and networking infrastructure (3+ years)
• Significant experience with PowerShell scripting (3+ years)
• Strong experience with Windows Server (2019/2022) and Active Directory (3+ years)

Desirable / Plus Skills

• Experience with solutions such as StorageGrid, Nabox, BlueXP or similar storage technologies
• Familiarity with Splunk or other logging/monitoring tools
• Experience with automation tools like Ansible
• Passion for operational management of IT environments and automation best practices
• Broader knowledge of both front‑end and backend components in Windows server‑based infrastructure

What to Expect

• Two days per week at our office in Groningen; rest of the time remote by arrangement
• Periodic on‑call rotation for urgent tasks or incident response
• You may be asked in your application or interview to explain travel distance if residing far (e.g. over ~1.5 hours commute)