Server Engineer

Placering
Kolding

About the job
Are you up for powering the future by Leading Digital Technology Engineering towards Digital excellence? Are you fostering strong and collaborative leadership in the OT and IT convergence era?
As our new Server Engineer, you will be part of the Digital Engineering arm of Project Delivery & Engineering where we stand at the forefront of working towards a fossil-free future. We are dedicated to executing major global infrastructure projects, navigating a dynamic and challenging environment to guarantee safety, promptness, quality, and budget compliance.

Within our Digital Engineering division, we specialise in delivering and integrating digital solutions aimed at facilitating renewable energy production and ensuring dependable operations. As the primary provider of digital solutions within the Business Unit Offshore Wind, we oversee the whole value chain, from bid acquisition to asset construction and operation. Our focus lies on Operational Technology (OT) and IT, harnessing control and analytic modelling synergies to optimise engineering design through comprehensive data integration.

As one of the key functions in Vattenfall’s wind business, Digital Technology Engineering is responsible for supporting wind projects, operational sites and other business units in managing SCADA equipment, communication and respective infrastructure.

Your profile
Your role / what will you do?
We are looking for a Server Engineer to support our operational fleet and ensure the safe and competitive operation of all Vattenfall Wind Power wind farms. This critical role is integral to Vattenfall’s wind business, supporting wind projects, operational sites, and various business units.

As a Server Engineer, your primary responsibilities will include configuring and testing our virtual and physical server and storage platforms, as well as managing the backup of our infrastructure across a distributed geographical environment.

Your responsibility will include:

• Support both projects and operations ranging from construction to operational support of both large offshore and onshore windfarms
• Maintaining the virtual infrastructure hardware, operating systems, and VMs on servers which support business processing requirements.
• Maintain, upgrade, and implement improvements to the VMware vCenter and ESXi infrastructure.
• Managing backup and disaster procedures and strategy for our live WindParks.
• Perform upgrades to operating systems and software packages (Windows services, or other enterprise apps) as necessary.
• Create and maintain system documentation for updates made to the infrastructure.
• Participate in server design and implementations of the selected solutions.
• Travel may be expected across Northern Europe (UK,NL,DE,DK,SE)
• Expectation to be periodically on-call

Technical Competences:

• Experience with Windows and Linux operating systems.
• Experience with administration of VMware in a stretched cluster environment.
• Experience with administration of storage systems in a clustered environment.
• Preferably experience in administration of VDI Horizon environments
• Experience with administration of endpoint protection.
• Experience in monitoring and logging systems (such as Splunk, Solarwinds etc)
• Knowledge of Windows infrastructure technologies (AD, DNS, WSUS, Certificates)

Your profile / who are you?
You hold a degree in IT or have equivalent long-term experience in the field, with preferred certifications in VMware and/or Microsoft technologies. Since we operate in an international environment, fluency in both spoken and written English is essential. Additionally, you possess excellent communication skills, enabling you to effectively interact with representatives from various professional groups, external business partners, and colleagues.

Personal Trades:

• Are a true team player and able to contribute to the existing team spirit
• Able to work and follow operational procedures
• Have a systematic and focused approach to your daily tasks
• See documentation as a natural and integrated part of the work

Additional information
Our offer
Looking for a career with growth?
Looking for a role where your superpowers can be leveraged to the maximum and with limitless opportunities for growth?

The scale and ambition of our wind, battery and solar business means you can really find your element with us. We’ll also provide you with all the learning and development you need to expand your horizons.

We strive to be the best place to work in the industry with highly competitive pay and conditions and an open, supportive culture. A commitment to a healthy work-life balance aims to ensure everyone plays to their strengths, whatever their background and experiences.

You will be part of a growing team of 1,700+ colleagues from 50+ nationalities where our positive approach to diversity is reflected in the fact that more than a quarter of staff are women.

More Information
For more information about the position, you are welcome to contact hiring manager Henrik Serup Thomsen, For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our recruiter Christian Pathuel,

We welcome your application in English no later than 29.07.2024. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website.

At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to building a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be a good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation.

The security of Vattenfall and its employees is essential. For that reason, a pre-employment screening will be part of your recruitment process. The screening is based on the role you will fulfill within Vattenfall and will be performed by a third party, Validata.

Since Vattenfall is a part of the Swedish critical infrastructure, many of our services are security classed. If this position is security classified the final candidates might be subject to a security vetting process, according to Swedish legislation.

We look forward to receiving your application

About the company
Vattenfall is a leading European energy company driving the transition to a sustainable energy system. We have been electrifying industries, powering homes and transforming life through innovation for more than 100 years and now have a mission of working for fossil freedom. We employ around 21 000 people mostly in our core markets in Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the UK.