This is Adyen

Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition.

For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.

Team Lead Infrastructure - Networking

This team is located in our Platform Engineering Solution in Amsterdam. The purpose of Platform Engineering is to enable Adyen engineers to autonomously build and support secure, scalable and reliable applications with high speed and quality through a common technology ecosystem.

As the team lead for our Networking team in Amsterdam, you will build, mentor, and coach a diverse, talented team at delivering foundational infrastructure services for our core platform.

You are comfortable streamlining the team's engineering operations, refining product requirements together with product and engineers and encouraging effective collaboration.

Sounds exciting? Keep reading!

What You’ll Do:

• Work closely with project managers, vendors, and other teams to ensure the successful deployment of storage infrastructure in Adyen.
• Design, implement, and optimize Adyen networking infrastructure.
• Set clear individual and team goals that align with our strategic engineering ambitions in close collaboration with the product manager.
• Take responsibility for the operation and improvement of the networking team at Adyen.
• Deploy, scale, and automate a network spanning the globe.
• Drive the technical direction of the team.
• Maintain sources of truth, performance and health metrics, and the full appliance lifecycle.

Who You Are:

• Proven experience managing and optimizing global network infrastructure environments.
• Experience in managing IT teams and products.
• Strong knowledge of networking protocols, EVPN, IS-IS, MPLS, Segment Routing, and firewalling.
• Strong knowledge of Linux networking stack.
• Proven experience in coaching, leading, and mentoring engineering talent.
• You have the ability to lead technical projects in a fast-paced environment.
• You are a team player who enjoys working with a global team across different offices, roles, and cultures.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible and Puppet.

Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments

Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen.

Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application!

What’s next?

Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility.

This role is based out of our Amsterdam office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.