Linux System Administrator - High Performance Clusters

What will you do?

In a team of system administrators, you will be responsible for the development and management of the Linux environment, including High Performance clusters. This infrastructure is necessary for carrying out the daily activities of NLR colleagues. You will contribute to the architecture, design, implementation, and management of NLR systems. You will ensure project-based management of new development trajectories, from the analysis phase, design, implementation, up to and including commissioning. You will safeguard the functionality, currency, security, and effectiveness of the Linux environment in the NLR data center. An interesting role with a combination of activities, where no workday is the same. You will work from our location in Amsterdam with the possibility of working partially from home.

What do you bring?

•     Bachelor's or higher work and thinking level, preferably a completed ICT education

•     Demonstrable knowledge and experience with Linux

•     Interest in new ICT technologies, which you can translate into practical and effective solutions

•     Analytical ability, persuasiveness, vision, and the ability to rise above the subject matter

•    You stand your ground based on professional expertise

•     Excellent communication skills in Dutch and English

What do we offer you?

Working at NLR means working in a national and international high-tech environment. Collaboration and involvement are highly valued by us. By giving you freedom and your own responsibility, you are best able to achieve groundbreaking innovations. Do you want to develop yourself professionally and personally or perhaps even pursue a doctorate? This is also possible at NLR as a learning organization, with a training budget, a mentor, internal coaches, and good contacts with vocational colleges, universities of applied sciences, and universities.

In addition to all this, we offer you;

• A competitive salary

• No less than 45 days off (full-time employment) so that you can fully enjoy your free time alongside your challenging job

• A fixed 8% year-end bonus

• A contribution towards your healthcare costs

• Additional paid parental leave

• Depending on your role, flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home

Your new work environment?
The NLR ICT department develops and manages the NLR Information and Communication infrastructure, which consists of laptops, central servers, storage systems, backup systems, a connecting data communication network, security systems, and application software. The department is also responsible for the development of applications that support NLR's processes.

What does working at NLR mean?
Koninklijke NLR has been a knowledge organization for over 100 years with the will and ambition to innovate. Driven by this, we make the world of aerospace safer, more sustainable, more efficient, and more effective, and we stand for groundbreaking innovations.

More than 900 driven professionals work with us, from aeronautical engineers to psychologists, and from mathematicians to application experts. NLR stands for an inclusive and diverse organization where everyone feels welcome, safe, valued, and respected.

Do you want to know more?
Please contact Christel (Recruiter) via

Our colleagues will gladly tell you what it's like to work at NLR. Don't forget to take a look at our renewed website and our social media, such as our LinkedIn channel.

For this position, obtaining a Statement of No Objection at level A (VGB-A) is a prerequisite for employment. More information about the required security investigation can be found at Security Investigation | AIVD.

Recruitment agencies? We are less enthusiastic about that.