Technical Application Engineer with a Passion… at Keylane · Utrecht

Do you enjoy taking ownership of complex technical environments? Do you like combining infrastructure, security and automation to keep mission-critical SaaS platforms? Then join the team behind Benefits-Plaza, Keylane's all-in-one Employee Benefits platform that connects employers, insurers and payroll providers across the Netherlands.

As a Technical Application Engineer within our Technical Application Management (TAM) team, you are responsible for the availability, performance, security and continuous improvement of the Benefits-Plaza platform.

You'll work closely with experienced engineers and act as a technical expert for one of our most important SaaS solutions. This is a hands-on role where infrastructure, middleware, security and automation come together.

You'll regularly balance operational continuity, customer expectations and security requirements while making sound technical decisions under pressure.

You'll be responsible for:

• Drive the resolution of complex platform incidents and problems, ensuring timely recovery while acting as the technical escalation point for internal teams and stakeholders.
• Monitor the Benefits-Plaza platform and proactively resolve operational issues, including resource bottlenecks, application outages and middleware failures (e.g. disk space, CPU usage and Tomcat availability).
• Contribute to daily operations: handling service requests and standard changes, following agreed ITIL processes.
• Managing service requests and standard changes in line with ITIL processes.
• Managing web service integrations, including networking, whitelisting, security configuration and end-to-end technical validation.
• Planning and executing maintenance activities, including patching and upgrading technologies such as RHEL, DB2, Tomcat and related components.
• Managing the lifecycle of client and server certificates, coordinating renewals and secure deployments.
• Lead the technical execution of external audits, penetration tests and disaster recovery exercises by preparing technical evidence, coordinating activities and driving remediation where needed.
• Driving automation and standardization by improving runbooks, scripts and operational tooling.
• Optimizing monitoring, capacity management and operational dashboards to improve platform reliability.

Key about your team

You'll be part of Keylane's Technical Application Management (TAM) organization, where we ensure our business-critical SaaS platforms are secure, stable and always available for our customers.

Together, we:

• Deliver best-in-class SaaS services from a secure, ISO-certified private cloud, ensuring our customers can focus on pension administration while we manage the technical platform.
• The team consists of highly skilled IT professionals with strong expertise in infrastructure, databases, middleware and security, combined with deep knowledge of the Life & Pension domain.
• Work with standardized processes for migrations, implementations and operations, and continuously refine our way of working based on experience and feedback.
• Foster a collaborative culture where ownership, innovation and continuous learning are encouraged, and everyone has the opportunity to make an impact.

You recognize yourself in the following profile:

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in IT or a related technical field.

• You have 5+ years of experience in technical application management, infrastructure operations or a similar role managing business-critical applications.

• You are experienced in managing application servers such as Apache Tomcat and have a solid understanding of their interaction with networking, security and the application stack layer.

• You have practical experience with security hardening, patching and vulnerability management, especially in regulated or audited environments.

• You are familiar with certificates (PKI), networking and firewalls, and know how to work with concepts like whitelisting, proxies and load balancers.

• You can script and automate (for example with PowerShell, Bash or Ansible) and are comfortable working with monitoring and deployment tools.

• You are analytical, structured and pragmatic, able to quickly understand complex situations and define clear next steps.

• You are a communicative team player: You work closely with colleagues and stakeholders and can translate technical issues into business impact.

• You like working in a dynamic, fast-growing environment and think in solutions.

• Experience with Oracle, WebLogic and Windows Server is considered a plus.

• You will grow into taking more ownership of incidents and changes, and after a proper onboarding and training period, you will be part of the standby/on-call rotation.

A Certificate of Conduct (VOG) and reference check are part of the application process.

All employees follow information security training and have basic information security responsibilities**.**

• A monthly gross salary between € 3.600 and € 4.200 based on 40 hours per week.
• 8% holiday allowance of your total gross salary.
• A profit share.
• A pension scheme, with the option to save extra.
• Travel reimbursement: Receive a mileage allowance of €0.23 per km or an NS Business Card, which can also be used for personal travel.
• 24 holiday days (with the option to buy extra) and 7 inclusion days, which can be exchanged with fixed Dutch national holidays, allowing you to take them when you like.
• Flexibility in working environment. As part of a hybrid working team, you will work partly from home and partly from the office. If you work in the office, a free lunch is waiting for you every day. If you work from home, you will receive a working from home allowance (€ 4 net per day) and internet allowance (€ 35 net per month).
• The possibility of working remotely from abroad for up to 2 months per year.
• The possibility to lease a bike through our bike leasing program.
• A one-year contract that, subject to satisfactory performance, will be converted into a permanent contract.
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