Team Lead Infra Core IT

As Team Lead you are responsible for the daily leadership of a Scrum or DevOps team of around eight people. You guide and motivate your team members and support them in developing their careers. Your creativity technical expertise and leadership skills are essential for building a high-performing team that delivers on its commitments.

Your daily work involves improving maintaining and resolving issues in our (partially) automated implementations and collaborate with passionate talented and dedicated colleagues in an inspiring environment where both your technical and theoretical skills are challenged every day.

Key about your team

As aTeam Lead you will be a vital member of our IT team dedicated to maintaining a virtual private cloud environment for our top-tier SaaS applications. Our team operates across The Netherlands and India with your primary base in our Utrecht office working alongside 13 colleagues specializing in Networking Virtualization Backup Security Monitoring and more.

In this important role youll support an IT infrastructure that serves around 35 major clients in the pension and insurance sectors impacting millions of customers across Western Europe. Our platform services include Dell and Cisco hardware and a fully virtualized server cluster using the complete VMware suite.

This diverse IT landscape offers many challenges and opportunities. Youll use your expertise to create robust environments foster collaboration across departments and optimize our digital infrastructure. We are committed to staying at the forefront of IT innovation and look forward to your contributions as a key member of our team.

Key about your responsibilities

• Spot opportunities to apply new techniques and improve existing processes.
• Act as a sparring partner for architects and management on technical and domain topics.
• Oversee work that spans multiple product lines applications and departments.
• Build bridges between teams product lines and business lines.
• Set the example in technical knowledge and engineering behaviour across domains.
• Provide clear feedback to engineers architects and management and act as a go-to technical expert.
• Guide and mentor engineers and help define suitable learning paths for team members.
• Promote and safeguard the engineering culture within Keylane.
• Communicate with internal and external stakeholders about solutions tools and ways of working.
• Design and teach frameworks methodologies and best practices.
• Create a safe open environment that encourages ownership collaboration and speaking up.
• Connect people across all levels and navigate organisational dynamics with sensitivity and persistence.

• A monthly gross salary between 5000 and 7000 based on 40 hours per week;
• 8% holiday allowance of your total gross salary;
• A profit share;
• Travel reimbursement: a NS Business card or mileage allowance ( 0.23 per km);
• 24 holiday days (with the option to buy extra) and 7 inclusion days which can be exchanged with fixed Dutch national holidays allowing you to take them when you like;
• A pension scheme with the option to save extra;
• A comprehensive vitality offer to help you stay healthy. Read more here;
• A one-year contract that subject to satisfactory performance will be converted into a permanent contract;
• Flexibility in working environment. As part of a hybrid working team you will work partly from home and partly from the office. If you work in the office a free lunch is waiting for you every day. If you work from home you will receive a working from home allowance ( 4 net per day) and internet allowance ( 35 net per month);
• The possibility of working remotely from abroad for up to 2 months per year;
• The opportunity to develop yourself at our Academy through courses and training both professionally and personally;
• An active and fun community of Keylaners. We also have after work drinks at our in-house pub every Thursday.