Are you looking for a 12 month industry placement as part of your University degree to develop your career in an exciting, fast paced and rapidly growing industry?
Network engineering is constantly changing, where a willingness to learn and a keenness to stay on top of new and innovative technologies is essential. GÉANT are leading the way in large scale, advanced networking infrastructure, technology and collaboration for research and education. We are offering a 12-month placement within our Network Operations Centre for those undertaking a placement year (starting Summer 2025) as part of their University degree in a Computing Science or Networking.
About us
GÉANT assists in high profile research and academic organisations providing connectivity communication services to the research and education communities across Europe. The role is within the GÉANT Operations Centre which monitors and manages the operational multi-gigabit network serving 40 national Research and Education Networks (NRENs) across Europe. The network comprises both layer 3 IP and optical transmission layers. You will also have the opportunity to work with the other specialist networking teams within the organisation on other projects. For example, GÉANT is part way through a project to refresh its entire optical network and the successful candidate may have an opportunity to get involved in this process during what is expected to be a busy time for the organisation.
The closing date for this position will be 10th November 2024. We will hold the first stage interviews on 14th and 15th November via zoom and the second stage face to face interviews on 21st November 2024 in our Cambridge office.
About you
You need to be currently enrolled at a UK University as an undergraduate studying a course involving Computing, Networking and/or IT and able to undertake a placement year at our Cambridge site. You need to have undertaken two years at University and will complete a further year of education following your internship.
To be successful in this role you must demonstrate a keen interest in technologies such as Networking protocols, Optical Transmission Systems, Virtual Machine Technology concepts, Operating systems (Microsoft Server and LINUX variants), Network Application Services. You should enjoy being challenged and be open to learning new things which can be applied to your studies. We are looking for someone who enjoys working in an open and collaborative manner.
About us
Why work for GÉANT?
We offer a blazing-fast, cutting-edge network that connects scientists, researchers and academics across Europe and the world. Our network is the largest and most advanced R&E (Research & Education) network in the world, connecting over 50 million users at 10,000 institutions. We provide users with highly reliable, unconstrained access to computing, analysis, storage, applications and other resources.
Benefits of working for GÉANT
You’ll receive excellent benefits at GÉANT – we offer a generous holiday allowance and a 5% end of year bonus/allowance as standard. The other benefits you receive will depend on the country you are employed in, but you can rest assured that these will include an appropriate pension scheme and medical insurance.
