Company Overview
Solera Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SLH), is the world's leading provider of software and services to the automobile insurance claims processing industry. The Solera companies leverage each other to develop and deliver the latest technologies, market intelligence and best practices to over 165,000 customers in 70 countries.
Solera’s platforms drive efficiency at every stage of the vehicle lifecycle, providing essential data and services around vehicle history, electronic titling, service and maintenance, collision repair estimation and valuation, fraud detection, parts procurement, vehicle disposal, insurer re-underwriting, and more. Our customers include the world’s leading insurance organizations, as well as over 160,000 repair facilities, dealers and others across the owner lifecycle, who use our solutions to digitally improve their business and the experience for their customers.
Each of Solera's core brands has a strong history of leadership, innovation and industry "firsts." They include: ABZ (in the Netherlands), Audatex (in over 45 countries), AudaExplore (in the U.S.), AUTOonline (in Europe and Latin America), Hollander (in North America), HPI (in the U.K.), Informex (in Belgium), Inpart (in Brazil and Mexico), Market Scan (in the Netherlands) and Sidexa (in France).
Our corporate vision is simple, yet powerful. We will continue to find innovative ways to:
- Provide high-ROI products and services that drive efficiencies in our markets.
- Expand strategically with our customers into new geographies.
- Methodically grow stockholder value through disciplined financial and operational management.
- Provide fulfilling career opportunities for our associates (our greatest assets).
- Offer discernible value to our industry due to our vast store of knowledge, our cutting-edge skills, our system-wide innovative spirit, and our worldwide network of visionary leadership teams.
Our Guiding Principles help our entire organization achieve these organizational goals and are integral to our current and future success.
To support Solera's Mission, we are currently seeking highly motivated candidates interested in the position of:
- Competitive basic salary + bonus
- Contract of employment, full time
- Medical care for you and your family
- Life insurance package
- Professional trainings to boost your development
- Career Development opportunities tailored to the individual
- Opportunity to be a part of an evolving and growing business
- Keeping the core datacentre infrastructure (Network, Storage, Compute) up and running
- Further develop solutions for future systems, services and applications
- Plan network resources, prepare them and maintain during the whole lifecycle
- Maintain network systems infrastructure from HW up to the OS
- Monitor all network systems needed for daily business and further
- Plan further resources or replacement of outdated systems
- Plan network system optimization
- React on incident reports received from support, monitoring system or other channels
- Plan network systems
- Install network systems
- Maintain networking systems
- Monitor networking systems
- Patch and upgrade networking systems
- Identify issues on networking systems and configuration
- Identify issues on services attached (relaying) on the networking infrastructure
- Essential
- Fundamental Certification on network systems or products maintained (Cisco, Broacade, F5, Fortinet)
- University Degree in Information Technology
- Desirable
- CCIE
- Minimal project management skills
- Advanced certifications on products used such as Cisco, Brocade, F5, Fortinet
- Advanced certifications on OSs used such as Linux, Wndows
- Essential
- At least 5 years of experience on IT and the maintained systems
- Know-how on system architecture and design
- Skills on system documentation
- Basic knowledge on system monitoring and performance analyses
- Knowledge on storage and database systems as well as used protocols (iSCSI, FCoE, NFS...)
- Know-how and experience on SAN (Storage Area Networking)
- In depth know-how and experience on Ethernet, IPv4 and basic on IPv6
- Basic knowledge on best practices and well known system design
- Know-how and experience in VoIP systems operations and planning
- Know-how and experience in Firewall management and operations
- Know-how and experience on VPN configurations
- Know-how and experience on dynamic routing protocols such as EIGRP, OSPF, BGPv4
- Desirable
- Advanced experience on networking systems and operations (10 years or more)
- Experiences in providing user trainings and system presentations
- In depth know-how on further layer 2 protocols (DSL, ISDN etc...)
- Broad experience in system and process automation
- Essential
- Speaks fluent and writes in business English (Written and verbal communication)
- Can explain and express complicated circumstances so that other engineers or supporter are able to follow and collaborate
- Has a high awareness and focus on service delivery and system stability
- Is accountable and taking the lead on his tasks
- Broad experience in management of smaller or internal projects
- Desirable
- Is healthy and fit so he is resilient to higher workload in special occasions and is able to lift a server for installation into a cabinet
- Can manage small and medium projects
- Is proactively asking for feedback
- Can take the role of the deputy in case the head of the team is not available
- Knows how to organize and track his own work and is able to prioritize according to the company's mission and plans (Eisenhower table etc.)
- Strong personality in order to interact with different colleagues and/or customers
- Experience in different cultures in order to collaborate with them
- Knows how to organize and track his own work and is able to prioritize according to the company's mission and plans (Eisenhower table etc.)
- Head of Application Engineering Department or Engineers: Delivering base infrastructure or ensuring its stability so the Engineering team can successfully deploy IT services on top
- Head of System Infrastructure: Is planning and coordinating all activities and resources for the datacentre infrastructure team
- Head of Financial Applications and Engineers / Developers: Delivering base infrastructure or ensuring its stability so the Financial Applications team can successfully deploy IT services on top
- Head of Internal Applications: Delivering base infrastructure or ensuring its stability so the Internal Applications team can successfully deploy IT services on top