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Why AMS-IX?
At AMS-IX, we believe our people are the core of our organisation. With over 25 nationalities, we value our diversity and we are always looking for new talents to strengthen our team.
We are a group of dedicated professionals with one common goal: be at the forefront of every innovation and market development to deliver the best interconnection services possible.
With an office located in the centre Amsterdam, we provide excellent benefits and always listen to our employees’ needs.
Our Core Values
Excellence
We are passionate about delivering quality. We set the highest standards, and we take pride and joy in everything we do.
Collaboration
We move forward as a single force: Team AMS-IX. We work together and with others to build communities and contribute to a better society.
Dedication
We are dedicated professionals who go the extra mile to deliver. We care, we believe, and we aim to achieve the best results.
Current vacancies (2)
There are currently two vacancies:
- Junior Accountant
- Senior Systems Engineer
Junior Accountant
Overall Job Purpose
The Junior Accountant is part of the Finance team and reports to the Finance Manager. The focus of the Junior Accountant is to provide administrative support to the finance team depending on the team’s and business’ needs.
Key Responsibilities
- Acts as a first point of contact with our suppliers and is responsible for keeping the accounts payable mailbox (inquiries, complaints) up to date. Note that the communication with AMS-IX suppliers is conducted mainly via emails.
- Inputs supplier invoices in our internal procurement platform (Coupa), creates purchase orders for internal approval(s) and creates new suppliers in our accounting tool (FinancialForce).
- Verifies records, checks information on invoices, maintains and classifies records and files.
- Monitors outstanding payments to suppliers and is able to generate reports where needed.
- Supports the finance team in areas such as debt collection, compliance (e.g. CBS reporting, VAT returns), bank reconciliations, cost analysis, and preparation of process manuals.
- Assists in preparing year-end audit files.
Qualifications and Competencies
- Secondary vocational education (MBO) or Bachelor’s degree (BSc/HBO) in Finance or Accounting or a related field
- Fluency in Dutch and proficiency in English (spoken and written) is required
- 2 years + of proven experience as an Assistant or Junior Accountant or relevant
- Familiar with basic financial and accounting principles
- Excellent Excel skills is a must
- Knowledge of Coupa is a plus
- Knowledge of FinancialForce is a plus
Soft Skills
- Self-motivated, with a ‘can do’ attitude
- Analytical mind
- Attention to detail/ accuracy
- Solid people and communication skills, internally and externally with customers/suppliers
- Organised and methodical in approach
- Ability to work well under pressure and meet tight deadlines
- Ability to work independently, as well as in a team
- Team player
Senior Systems Engineer
Overall job purpose
The AMS-IX Senior System Engineer works within the Technical team (Delivery and Operations) where he/she ads experience and knowledge in the area of system operations and applications. The Senior System Engineer defines the strategy with regard to the deployment of servers and storage, supporting the different applications that make up the ecosystem of the Exchange services and support systems.
The Senior Systems Engineer is responsible for the design, implementation and operations of new servers, storage and firewall technologies. With regards to the firewalls and other security-related features, the Senior Systems Engineer works closely with the Information Security team (Officer or Engineer).
Key responsibilities
- Oversees and performs day-to-day operations
The Senior Systems Engineer manages the Lifecycle of the company Linux-based baselines. The Senior Systems Engineer manages the systems infrastructure using Configuration Management Software, like Ansible and Puppet. The Senior Systems Engineer manages the following services: DNS, DHCP, PostgreSQL Database Cluster, Email and Mailing lists, Palo Alto Firewalls, Virtualisation software (Proxmox), Gitlab, Load Balancers (HAProxy and Nginx), Containers, Monitoring Software (CheckMK), ELK based solution, Web Servers (Apache and Nginx). Additionally, the Senior Systems Engineer keeps track and upgrades the Office software running on a Linux box, e.g. Jira, Confluence, JAMF, Seafile, etc. - Supports Tech team
The Senior Systems Engineer assists the NOC and Software development teams by supporting the platform where a server is involved, e.g. the monitor servers, firewalls, Gitlab and containers. The Senior Systems Engineer solves critical/warning alerts related to storage, services, SSL certificates, bad performance, etc. The Senior Systems Engineer installs new bare metal servers, creates new virtual servers and also supports outsourced services e.g. the company website, the MORE-IP website and the peering-forum.eu website, and in general all the outsourced works that require AMS-IX’s aid. - Acts as a Subject Matter Expert (SME)
The Senior Systems Engineer is involved in all the new projects (e.g. IXaaS), by offering advice on new products and by doing Research and Development (R+D), looking always for the organisation’s best tailored systems infrastructure.
Qualifications and Competencies
- Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Information Technology or related field
- Good knowledge of English (written and spoken); Knowledge of Dutch is a plus
- Minimum 3 years of experience in a similar position within a Telecom/ISP or data centre environment
- A solid IT background, especially in systems
- Experience with project management and scrum
- Good knowledge of systems hardware; DELL/HP/Supermicro servers, DELL/Synology storage (NAS/SAN), firewalls (Palo Alto)
- Good Knowledge of software defined storage (Ceph, Gluster is a plus)
- Good Knowledge of mail gateways (Cisco ESA)
- Good knowledge of scripting languages like Bash, Python and/or Perl
- Good knowledge of configuration management software, Ansible and Puppet
- Good knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS and Debian, Microsoft Windows Server is a plus
Soft skills
- Eager to solve problems
- Well-organised
- Able to work independently as well as within a team
- Eager to learn
- Customer-oriented
- Able to multitask
- Good eye for detail
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