Company Description
Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 21 000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission.
Job Description
Vattenfall IT is the internal IT provider for the entire Vattenfall Group. It is an international shared service center, providing efficient and reliable IT services and 1.300 IT Engineers located in different European countries provide daily support to the Vattenfall Group. The Network Department is an international Team which is responsible for design, delivery and maintenance of Network Services across all countries. They are hundreds of locations connected together which require stable, efficient and secure network.
We are looking for talented individuals who have a background in Network, who likes traveling and in addition to their passion for their own role, want to contribute in supporting a meaningful corporate mission. We are looking for an open minded person who thinks out of the box, has fun in digging into new technologies, and is eager to learn, ask questions and help others. Some experience in troubleshooting Network related problems, and fun in writing the documentation (handbooks, Wiki articles and presentations etc) will be very welcome.
Main Responsibilities
You, as an Network Engineer will be part of Operational team who does focus on daily maintenance of LAN, WLAN and WAN services on both Hardware and Service layer. Most of daily work is done remotely, but visiting remote sites will be part of the duty. You will also take care about Network stuff in German locations, show up there periodically and in case of an serious incident. This will also require communication with non-English speaking customers. Some Dutch locations can be also part of your responsibility. On-call, work in over hours and traveling are part of the work. Depending on your interest, we will help you to develop yourself also in specific areas of Network, like e.g. Software Defined Network, WLAN or Network Security.
Location
Hamburg or Berlin
Qualifications
Your profile
We encourage innovation, creativity and thinking outside the box with IT security as a basic principle. We believe You present a structured way of working and take new initiatives by your own. You show an ability and willingness to develop yourself with new technology, troubleshoot cases of varying size and complexity. You act as a team player while being able to be self-motivated. You gain the knowledge from other colleagues, but you also share your knowledge with others.
As our Junior Network Engineer you will bring:
- A Bachelor or University degree
- Knowledge about physical Network infrastructure components
- Knowledge about LAN, WLAN and WAN services
- Basic experience in automating your daily work (scripting, Ansible playbooks or something similar)
- Fluently speaking knowledge in English and German
- A driving license
Beneficial requirements:
- Network related education, trainings, certificates (e.g CCNA)
- Experience in Wireless LAN setup and troubleshooting
- Experience in working with Network devices, physical mounting them and configuring
- Experience in working with German speaking non-IT customers
Additional Information
Our offer
Good remuneration, a challenging and international work environment, and the possibility to work with some of the best in the field. You will be working in interdisciplinary teams and you can always count on support from committed colleagues. We offer attractive employment conditions and opportunities for personal and professional development.
More Information
We welcome your application in English no later than, 3rd of August 2025. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website as we cannot guarantee that we will be able to process applications that are not made via our website.
For more information about the position you are welcome to contact Hiring Manager Andrzej Ciupa, ([email protected]). For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our recruiter Marius Gläßge ([email protected]).
At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation.
The security of Vattenfall and its employees is essential. For that reason, a pre-employment screening will be part of your recruitment process. The screening is based on the role you will fulfill within Vattenfall. The screening will be performed by a third party, DISA.
We look forward to receiving your application!
