Junior Teacher Security and Network Engineering

Have you always thrived in a classroom being close to students Do you enjoy hands-on lab sessions Do you want to be part of a top Security and Network Engineering master program Do you want to work closely with world-class researchers and support them in connecting to our students We are looking for a Junior Teacher to actively support the education technical labs coordination and infrastructure of our security and network engineering studies.

Join us!

The Junior Teacher would contribute to the teaching team in actively supporting delivery of teaching material and activities. The teaching team mostly consists of academic staff members embedded in the Informatics Institute that bring their research and state-of-the-art knowledge to the labs in a hands-on manner from laying down cables to forensic analysis of various devices.

You will actively work with course coordinators and lecturers in developing their research-based material and labs for security and network engineering courses. This includes deployment of material and labs as well as helping students in relevant technologies (e.g. installing network setups/configurations using software/hardware hacking equipment setting up servers repositories. development environments and containers etc.).

This is what you will do

Tasks and responsibilities:

• Development and deployment of security and network engineering material and labs;
• Assisting monitoring progress and grading of student projects;
• Coordination of Master theses projects tracking and supporting student success;
• Helping manage the community around the Masters programme.

This what we ask of you

Your experience and profile:

• MSc in Computer Science or equivalent;
• Technical experience in Computer Networks and/or Cybersecurity;
• Be a motivated teacher with a thorough and encouraging teaching style;
• Experience in supporting tasks and the willingness to take the responsibility for administrative tasks such as organisation and coordination of university education and research;
• Professional command of English.

This is what we offer you

We offer a temporary employment contract for 38 hours per week for a period of 12 months. The preferred starting date is as soon as possible.

The gross monthly salary based on 38 hours per week and dependent on relevant experience ranges between 3706 to 5760 (scale 10). This does not include 8% holiday allowance and 83% year-end allowance. The UFO profile Docent 4 is applicable. The Collective Labour Agreement of Universities of the Netherlandsis applicable.

You will work in this team

TheFaculty of Science has a student body of around 8000 as well as 1800 members of staff working in education research or support services. Researchers and students at the Faculty of Science are fascinated by every aspect of how the world works be it elementary particles the birth of the universe or the functioning of the brain.

The Informatics Institute is one of the seven educational institutes of the Faculty of Science (FNWI) and is responsible for the masters programmes in Artificial Intelligence Computational Science Computer Science Information Studies Software Engineering en System and Network Engineering in which currently at around 1400 students are enrolled. The education is provided by lecturers and researchers working within the GSI itself or at various research institutes including the Instituut voor Informatica (IvI) the Institute for Logic Language and Computation (ILLC) and the Korteweg-de Vries Instituut voor Wiskunde (KDV).

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If you feel the profile fits you and you are interested in the job we look forward to receiving your application. You can apply online via the button above. We accept applications until and including. However if a suitable candidate is selected earlier we will close the vacancy.

If you have any questions or do you require additional information Please contact Kostas Papagiannopoulos via

Applications should include the following information (all files besides your cv should be submitted in a .pdf file):

• a detailed CV including the months (not just years) when referring to your education and work experience;
• a letter of motivation;

Only complete applications received within the response period will be considered.