(Senior) System and Network Engineer

Hybrid: From home and our office at Amsterdam Central Station

Total Salary:  Between EUR 65,000 and EUR 80,000 (before taxes including allowances) plus excellent secondary benefits (see below)

Full-time: 37.5 hours per week

Important: You should be living in the Netherlands

We are a highly collaborative and international IT Engineering team seeking a new colleague to join us. You will be part of a unique, not-for-profit organisation that has a significant impact on the core of the Internet. If you value team players and collaboration and you are passionate about IT Engineering and infrastructure (Linux OS, storage and network systems), then this is the job for you.

🧠 What You Will be Doing: 

You will join our engineering team, deploying and maintaining IT services, servers and infrastructure. Your job will include tasks like:

• Maintain and deploy infrastructure components, Linux-based systems (Redhat-based, managed with SaltStack) and (containerised) applications, using GitOps principles

• Maintain and optimise our virtualisation platform

• Troubleshoot performance issues with the infrastructure

• Set up and maintain robust monitoring, and centralised logging for all infrastructure components and applications

• After six months in the IT department, you will participate in our 24/7 standby rotation - shifts are one week every 6-8 weeks, depending on team size (compensated on top of your salary)

👀 What We're Looking For:

• Master’s degree or higher in Information Technology, Computer science, Software Engineering (or similar)

• Communication: Fluent written and spoken English

• Embracing change: Eagerness to keep learning and a willingness to adapt

• Team player: Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills

• Extensive experience as a system and network engineer

• Experience building, maintaining and troubleshooting containerised applications.

• Experience building, maintaining and troubleshooting Linux servers and services.

• Experience with Infrastructure As Code (Terraform, Ansible, Saltstack, etc.)

📢 What You Can Expect From Us:

• Part of our pay policy is that we offer attractive total remuneration. While some companies may offer higher base salaries, at the RIPE NCC we take pride in offering outstanding secondary benefits that truly set us apart. Beyond the tangible perks, you’ll also gain the invaluable reward of working for a mission-driven organisation—where your contributions have a real and lasting impact on the Internet and the internet community we serve. 

  • A modern, flexible and informal work environment in the heart of Amsterdam, with an emphasis on a healthy work/life balance

  • A hybrid working policy in which you can combine working from the office with working from home. Working from abroad for a number of days per year is also possible

  • 30 vacation days, plus three collective days, plus public holidays

  • A gross Health insurance compensation for you and if applicable, your partner, and your children under 21 years old. This means that RIPE NCC pays the biggest part of your health insurance, you will only pay the taxes 

  • An excellent non-contributory pension scheme. We pay for the whole premium while most of the organisations in the Netherlands ask the employee for some contribution

  • A generous education budget, €2.250 per year so you can keep learning and developing your skills

  • Dutch language lessons for international colleagues. If we relocate you with your partner, we also offer this for your partner 

  • An annual health budget of €750 gross that you can spend on sport classes, a mindfulness course, chair massage, etc

  • An annual budget of €1.600 gross for your Internet connectivity and technology at home

  • When travelling with public transport, your transportation costs will be covered by a first-class train ticket to our Amsterdam office and/or KM allowance.

  • An additional annual transportation budget of €500 gross that you can use for example on a bike or GVB card

  • A sport hour per week, for doing sports or fitness during work hours

  • Home office furniture budget for a healthy, ARBO proof work setup at home.

  • Organisation-wide internal training program designed to develop critical soft skills—like feedback, resilience, and leadership—giving you the tools to excel in your career and beyond.

  • An in-house free barista providing healthy varied lunches on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and nice breakfasts on Thursdays, plus monthly office social events.

  • Casual team events such as team outings, annual Christmas party and summer BBQ. 

👥 The IT Engineering Team

We are an international team of 10 highly motivated engineers who love our craft. We are responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure for most of the RIPE NCC's services. We work in an Agile environment and rely on good communication and collaboration within our team and organisation.

🛜 About The RIPE NCC

The RIPE NCC is a not-for-profit organisation founded on the belief that the Internet should be governed openly, transparently and together with the wider Internet community. We are one of the oldest Internet organisations in Europe and we are proud of our legacy.

Our strength is our staff. We bring together more than 180 people from over 40 countries in our modern, vibrant office in the east wing of Amsterdam Central Station. Currently, we have a hybrid way of working and staff can work from home and in the office. Our official working language is English, but our colleagues speak more than 30 languages.

Our backgrounds are diverse, but our goal is the same: we work for the good of the Internet. Will you join us?

📋 How To Apply

If interested, please click the ‘Apply’ button and submit your CV and cover letter in English. Adding a cover letter is highly important and appreciated, our team read them carefully. 

Not ready to apply yet? Then send an email to openings@ripe.net and we can have an informal chat.

At the RIPE NCC, we are proud to serve our members and the RIPE community in 76 countries across Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. We celebrate unique perspectives and talents from different backgrounds and cultures. So if you're passionate about what you do and want to help shape the future of the Internet, apply now - we'd love to hear your story. 

Please note that due to the nature of our activities, we will require successful candidates to follow a pre-employment screening (conducted by our partner DISA).