System Administrator

Are you an experienced System Administrator who enjoys working in an international IT environment where continuity, security and ongoing improvement are key priorities? Then we are looking for you.

Based in Apeldoorn, Bau Watch Group’s IT team manages the central IT infrastructure for our organisation across several European countries. Our infrastructure team currently consists of three System Administrators, and we are looking for a new colleague to strengthen the team.

Over the past few years, our environment has grown significantly and become increasingly professionalised. A key part of this is our private cloud environment, spread across two data centres in the Netherlands. We also use various cloud solutions and support the IT infrastructure required for our international organisation and security services.

For parts of our infrastructure, we work with specialised external partners. As a result, your role involves more than managing and improving systems yourself. You will also monitor service delivery, assess technical proposals, and coordinate changes and escalations.

As a System Administrator, you and your colleagues will be responsible for the availability, security and ongoing development of our central IT infrastructure.

• Managing, monitoring and improving our private cloud environment.
• Managing our Windows and Linux server environments and the associated infrastructure.
• Managing and further developing our Microsoft 365, Entra  Intune environments.
• Managing and supporting virtualisation, backup, monitoring and networking solutions.
• Analysing and resolving complex technical incidents and recurring issues.
• Implementing and coordinating infrastructure changes.
• Monitoring capacity, performance, availability and continuity.
• Working with external managed services and infrastructure partners, ensuring that agreed services and changes are delivered correctly.
• Acting as the technical point of contact for escalations involving external suppliers.
• Contributing to disaster recovery, backup and restore, and business continuity initiatives.
• Implementing infrastructure and security improvements.
• Participating in projects involving infrastructure, networking, data centres, cloud and security.
• Supporting the IT Support Desk with more complex technical issues and escalations.
• Documenting infrastructure, configurations, procedures and technical decisions.

You will not need to manage every component of our infrastructure yourself, down to the lowest technical level. We work with specialised partners for certain areas. However, we expect you to have sufficient technical knowledge to assess their work, ask the right questions, and work with them to resolve incidents, implement changes and deliver improvements successfully.

You are technically curious and enjoy understanding why something works — or why it does not. You are independent enough to investigate and resolve problems yourself, while also knowing when to involve colleagues or external specialists.

• You have a higher professional education (HBO) level of working and thinking.
• You have several years of experience as a System Administrator, Infrastructure Engineer or in a similar role.
• You have solid knowledge of Microsoft Windows Server and Microsoft 365.
• You have experience with Entra /Azure AD and preferably Intune as well.
• You have experience with virtualisation environments, such as VMware.
• You have advanced networking knowledge, including VLANs, routing, firewalls, DNS and DHCP.
• You have experience with backup, monitoring and disaster recovery solutions.
• You have an interest in IT security.
• You can independently analyse technical incidents and coordinate suppliers when necessary.
• You have…