Senior Network & Security Engineer

The IT and Cyber Security landscape is rapidly changing. In order to stay in control of our vital IT Infrastructure, we are looking for a Senior Network & Security Engineer to strengthen our ITOPS team of highly skilled professionals. The ideal candidate? An expert in IT network infra management. Only mastery of your responsibilities is good enough for you. Protection against cybercrime is your number one priority. You understand the importance of a healthy balance between Serving Business & Protecting Assets.

You will join a large established European asset management and direct lending firm with over EUR 10 billion of assets under management. We offer a challenging and changing environment with the opportunity to take a step forward in your career while making an impact.

Main responsibilities

  • Ensure the IT Network Infrastructure is protected in line with latest industry best practices
  • Manage quality, logging, SOPs and documentation of services under your responsibility
  • Plan, design, and implement LAN/WAN/Security solutions that are in line with industry standards and compliance
  • Review, assess, and recommend network standards to support routing & switching, data centers, cloud-based architectures
  • Evaluate current network state, provide recommendations, and implement solution to ensure the network architecture are updated with latest industry best practices
  • Translate technical specifications into clear non-technical requirements
  • Ensure measures are in place to manage cyber incidents

Required hard skills

  • For this role its is a must to have an existing valid work permit for the Netherlands.
  • Minimum 5 years of work experience in a similar role, with minimum HBO level education
  • Demonstrable experience with network architecture, configuring firewalls and network devices
  • Extensive experience with Juniper (firewalls), Cisco (switches), Fortinet (VPN concentrators) or similar vendors
  • Extensive knowledge of the ISO OSI-model, Network- and Zero-Trust architecture, Cybersecurity, NIDS and HIDS, Linux (Debian/Ubuntu), and Microsoft Defender

These hard skills are a plus

  • Experience with lifecycle management of services and processes including Microsoft Windows (server) infrastructure, Active Directory, Group Policies, RDS farm and supporting services including Veeam suite, Netwrix, PRTG, Intune
  • Experience with availability- and replication strategies including business continuity measures & disaster recovery plans
  • Understanding and adopting ITIL way of thinking without losing focus on business
  • Knowledge of premises and cloud (Microsoft Azure Cloud Hybrid) architecture
  • Experience with IT Risk Management Control frameworks (ISO27001, ISAE3402, SOCII)

Soft skills

  • Excellent command of written and spoken English
  • Outstanding problem solving/analytical skills
  • Drive to continuously improve quality, with an attention to detail
  • Ability to work well in an evolving and fast-paced environment as a team player as well as independently
  • Being able to explain technical matters to non-technicians
  • Natural desire to keep up with changing IT landscape and (cyber) threats.
  • You won’t use arguments like “because that's how we've done it for the past 10 years” in a discussion

What do we offer?

  • Compensation fit for a senior role, perks, and benefits
  • Discretionary bonus based on performance, good pension scheme, a NS Business Card when living more than 10km from the office, a bike lease plan and telephone compensation.
  • We value your personal development: there is time reserved in every sprint for personal growth, with access to training platforms
  • Working in an area, vital for Business execution, security, and continuity of the strategy of Dynamic Credit
  • Great colleagues, in an informal and horizontal workplace, with an international and fun atmosphere
  • We maintain a 50-50 working from home-policy as a baseline

About us

Dynamic Credit is a fixed income asset management and direct lending firm. Founded in 2003, Dynamic Credit has over 69,000 clients, EUR 9 billion in mandates and funds and is headquartered in Amsterdam. Dynamic Credit manages (securities of) loans of others and its own proprietary direct lending.

Our mission is to create a better match between savings and credit for a more prosperous society. Dynamic Credit is innovative and makes complexity easier to understand through transparency. Our partners choose Dynamic Credit because we provide deep insight and reveal opportunities in alternative fixed income. We offer employees a steep learning curve and the opportunity to work closely with all teams at Dynamic Credit.

Dynamic Credit has entered into a strategic partnership with BNP Paribas Asset Management in September 2021 which is key for our future development and will allow us to extend our distribution networks across Europe and globally. The team of experts at Dynamic Credit have extensive experience valuing, sourcing, creating and managing alternative fixed income products. In 2015, Dynamic Credit set up the first online mortgage distribution platform of the Netherlands (bijBouwe). In June 2016, Dynamic Credit launched the loan investment servicing platform LoanClear. In August 2017, Dynamic Credit launched the Dynamic Credit Funds ICAV, an Irish AIFM regulated fund umbrella.

We stand for a diverse and inclusive workplace where everybody can be themselves: an informal and open working environment with a wide variety of backgrounds, both locally and internationally, where a flexible and hybrid way of working is the standard.

Dynamic Credit respects your privacy and does everything it can to protect your personal data. Please read our privacy statement at www.dynamiccredit.com/privacy before sharing any personal information with us.

Acquisition is not appreciated.

For more information about the position please contact: Sander Stuurwold, sstuurwold@dynamiccredit.com.

Are you interested in this vacancy?

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Our team will review your application, and get back to you as soon as possible.

Sander Stuurwold
Sander Stuurwold - Head of IT Operations