Network engineer: the fault nobody else can place
When the network is right, nobody thinks about it. When it is not, the Wi-Fi gets blamed first, then the laptop, and only last the thing actually at fault.
This page describes a role group, not an open position. A role on this site means we speak to people for it continuously and keep our pool up to strength — not that a seat is free today. What is actually open sits on our recruitment portal.
What you do
The work as it looks here, not as it sounds in a job profile.
- Designing, building and monitoring wired and wireless networks across multiple sites.
- Switching, routing, firewalls and VPN links: putting them in, changing them without stopping the business, and documenting them.
- Measuring before you mount anything and measuring again afterwards. A Wi-Fi design on a floor plan is a hunch.
- Resolving faults the lines before you could not place, and writing down what it turned out to be.
What you bring
Not a shopping list. This is what actually counts.
- Experience with switching and routing, and with at least one firewall platform you genuinely know rather than have once seen.
- Being able to read what a measurement says. A coverage map is not a picture but an argument.
- Patience for the part nobody enjoys: the documentation and the change agreements.
- Willingness to work outside office hours when a change calls for it — on a rota, not because it happens to suit.
Where you land
ITproposal was founded in 2019 and works from Amsterdam, Antwerp and Karaman. Some of our people work in our own teams, others are placed with a client. Either way the same holds: you are reachable, you write down what you did, and you explain in plain language what is going on.
On critical services support runs 24/7, on a rota rather than on a private mobile. Working outside office hours happens according to that rota, not because there is nobody else.
What you can expect from us sits on the vacancies page: four steps, no endless rounds, and an answer even when the answer is no.
The work this role sits on is described under Managed network.
Four steps, no endless rounds
Send your details
Mail your CV and a short note to [email protected]. Name this role group and the region you want to work in.
Introduction
We get in touch for a first conversation, by phone or video. We go through your background, what you are after and the kind of work you are looking for.
Technical conversation
If it matches, you speak to a colleague from the same field. That conversation is about practice: which environments do you know and how do you approach a failure.
Feedback
You hear from us what the next step is. If there is no fitting role right now, we keep your profile and get in touch as soon as that changes.
Questions we get about this
The ones that come up most often before someone gets in touch.
Is there an open vacancy for this role right now?
There may be, but this page does not say so. What is open at the moment sits on our recruitment portal, because that is where it is kept current. This page describes the role group itself: what the work is and what we look for. If nothing is open and the role does fit you, get in touch anyway — we keep your profile and come back to you as soon as something appears.
How much travel is involved?
More than in system administration and less than people fear. Part of the work can only happen on site: a survey, an installation, a fault where you have to feel the cable. The rest is remote, and that part grows because we deliberately build estates that can be managed remotely. How much it becomes in your case depends on the region and the clients you work for, and we discuss that before you start rather than after.
Will I work at ITproposal or at a client?
Both happen. Some of our people work in our own teams, others are placed with a client, sometimes for a few months and sometimes for years. Which you prefer is something we discuss in the first conversation, because it is a real difference: on placement you see more environments, in an in-house team you build on the same thing for longer.
I cannot do everything listed. Is it worth applying?
Yes. The list above describes the role at its broadest and nobody ticks all of it. What we look at is what you have done, how you approach a problem and whether you can explain what you did. What you do not know yet can be learned; how you deal with people when something is broken is much less so.
The other role groups
If this one does not fit, perhaps one of these does.
Recognise yourself in this?
You do not have to wait for a vacancy to appear. Send your CV and a few lines about what you are looking for.
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