Junior IT Specialist - Hosting

Join a leading regional data centre provider in Northwestern Europe offering secure, sustainable colocation, connectivity and cloud-ready infrastructure across multiple sites in the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland. With a strong focus on personalised service and high-availability operations, they support a diverse range of clients from enterprise IT and cloud service providers to government, healthcare and financial institutions.

They are now seeking an ambitious IT professional with 2–3 years of experience to take the next step in their career within a high-availability data center environment.

As a Network & IT Specialist, you’ll play a hands-on role in maintaining, monitoring, and supporting core IT and network systems. You’ll work across network operations, system security, and service management - ensuring that infrastructure runs smoothly and securely while gaining exposure to large-scale technical environments.

If you are interested in this opportunity and want to find out more, get in touch and apply today! 

Responsibilities:

• Support the daily operation, monitoring, and maintenance of IT and network systems.
• Manage incidents and service requests through internal ticketing tools, ensuring timely and accurate resolution.
• Provide 2nd line support for infrastructure, security, and connectivity-related issues.
• Assist with configuration, patching, and updates of network and security devices.
• Monitor system performance, availability, and alerts; escalate as required.
• Support vulnerability scans, reporting, and follow-up on remediation actions.
• Help maintain up-to-date documentation of systems, networks, and processes.
• Collaborate with senior engineers on infrastructure improvement and automation projects.
• Participate in change, incident, and problem management activities.
• Work occasionally in an on-call capacity (rotational) to ensure uptime.

Skills/Must have:

• 2–3 years of experience in IT support, systems administration, or network operations.
• Basic understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, VLANs, routing/switching).
• Exposure to IT security, monitoring tools, or vulnerability management platforms.
• Familiarity with ticketing and ITSM systems (e.g. ServiceNow, Jira, or similar).
• Understanding of Windows/Linux server environments and basic troubleshooting.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills with a customer-first mindset.

Salary:

• €60,000