Technical Application Manager Windows

Your job

Do you want to discover your potential further? Do you always go for the best solution?

To replace a colleague, we are looking for a
Technical Application Manager Windows
(32-36 hours)
who will join our Multidisciplinary Hosting & Deployment Services Team.

Your new job

As a technical application manager, you are co-responsible for the management of several dozen (mainly web-based) applications and services. You are looking for the optimal balance between stability, safety and availability when carrying out maintenance, solving malfunctions and implementing improvements. Using agile methodologies, you will work together in a team of five specialists with whom you will share knowledge and together look for the best solution for our users' applications and automate, standardize and simplify the deployment and management of applications.
Our applications run on both Windows and Linux. Many applications run in our own data centers, but you also support deploying applications in our Azure cloud and the connections between them. We are also moving more and more applications to a container on our own Kubernetes cluster for more flexibility and less management effort. We do this through pipelines and automating deployments. You recognize repetitive activities and devise and implement solutions to automate them and have them carried out by less experienced users. You use resources from the market or, where necessary, design your own solutions to automate them. What we expect from you:

• Giving advice to users on the most effective platform to land their applications.
• Troubleshooting supported applications.
• After a successful Proof Of Concept for new users and new applications, setting up the production environment to be able to manage it.
• Keeping existing applications stable and monitoring and resolving incidents and disruptions.
• Implementing upgrades and patches.
• Monitoring the environment and improving the tooling for it.
• Automating recurring management activities.

For automation, we use version control, pipelines and scripting. Being able to read, write and use pipelines and scripts well is essential. As a team, we are also devising, designing and implementing innovation and standardization in our environments to make them more stable, safer and more effective. Of course, you will be given every opportunity to develop yourself and keep up with market developments by attending training courses and conferences.
Our applications are used intensively at WUR. For example, they are used by our Researchers to conduct groundbreaking research, so that you can also make an important contribution to our mission: "to explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life".

Your qualities

You are 

An independent and eager IT professional with a DevOps mindset. You enjoy working together with other professionals and different stakeholders in an agile environment. You are a real go-getter, have strong communication skills and have an affinity with educational and research processes. In addition, you are analytical, but also solution- and customer-oriented. You are pro-active and have the drive and organizational talent to get things done. You are creative and are always looking for new solutions to make existing applications more effective and new functionalities possible. You have a good eye for the security, availability, stability and scalability of the delivered applications. Furthermore, you have:
 

• Demonstrable HBO working and thinking level.
• Knowledge of and experience with Windows.
• Experience with technical application management.
• Knowledge of and experience with Octopus, ArgoCD, Jenkins, GIT and scripting.
• Knowledge of Splunk or Open Search.
• Knowledge of the Azure cloud and managing applications in the cloud.
• A good sense of security.
• A good command of Dutch and English. The working language within the team is Dutch, but in our international working environment, more and more communication is in English.

Our IT teams work according to the scrum and agile methodologies. Collaboration, communication, transparency, and continuous feedback are essential. The team works on campus two days a week and can choose to work from home the other days, for good focus and a healthy work-life balance.
We cordially invite you to apply even if you do not yet have the knowledge and experience we ask for, but do have the right competencies and the ambition to fill this challenging position. If you do not have a completed HBO education, an assessment can be part of the application procedure.
 

We offer you

The reason why you want to work with us
Together with the entire team, we ensure a stable application hosting environment, so that our colleagues in education and research can deliver the best quality to our students and customers. You will be part of a team of five colleagues who are jointly responsible for our application hosting and deployment.
When it comes to terms of employment , Wageningen University & Research is the place to be. Highlights from our collective labor agreement are, for example:

• a workplace on the greenest campus in the Netherlands
• working hours that can be determined in consultation, so that an optimal work-life balance is possible;
• the possibility of accruing additional compensatory hours by working more (up to 40 hours per week);
• sabbatical leave, study leave and partially paid parental leave;
• support in the development of your potential, skills and knowledge;
• attention to your vitality and you can, at an attractive rate, make use of the sports facilities available on campus;
• a structural end-of-year bonus of 8.3%;
• an excellent pension scheme through ABP

In addition to these excellent fringe benefits, you will of course receive a good salary. Depending on your experience, we offer a competitive gross salary between €3,202 and €5,221 for a full-time working week of 36 hours, in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement Wageningen Research (scale 9 or 10). In addition, a contract for 0.8 FTE can be discussed. We are proud of our first place in the ranking of best employers among non-ICT organizations according to the Computable Career Guide 2024, see:

https://www2.computable.nl/apps/career-guide/werkgeversonderzoek-niet-ict-organisaties.php

Wageningen University & Research stimulates internal career opportunities and mobility with an internal recruitment policy. There are plenty of opportunities for personal initiative in a learning environment, and we offer excellent training opportunities. We offer a versatile position in an international environment with a pleasant and open working atmosphere.
Our building is modern, light, green, and is located on a lively green campus where students, teachers, researchers and all other residents cycle, walk, work and study criss-crossed. The campus is spacious with good parking space. You will work with the latest technology and work in an enthusiastic team of colleagues with a passion for their field.
 

Do you want more information?

For more information about this position, please contact Roy Bartels (Department Manager) via e-mail: roy.bartels@wur.nl.

For more information about the procedure, please contact Leoni Gasille, HR Advisor, e-mail: leoni.gasille@wur.nl.

Do you want to apply?
You can apply directly via the apply button on this vacancies page, which allows us to process your personal data with your consent.
This vacancy is open until Thursday, December 12, 2024. We immediately start talking to applicants who make us curious, so don't wait to apply.

We are

Wageningen University & Research and our mission is 'To explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life'. Within Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen University and the specialized research institutes of the Wageningen Research Foundation join forces to contribute to the solution of important questions in the field of healthy food and the living environment.
With approximately 30 branches, 7,200 employees (6,400 FTEs) and 13,200 students and more than 150,000 Lifelong Learning participants, Wageningen University & Research is one of the world's leading knowledge institutions in its field. The integrated approach to the issues and the collaboration between different disciplines are at the heart of the unique Wageningen approach.
Our employees indicate these points as good reasons to come and work at WUR: read the 6 reasons to come and work at WUR
We are recruiting for this vacancy ourselves. Acquisition is not appreciated, but sharing in your network is.