Electrical Engineer Data Center Amsterdam Schiphol-Rijk
You work on the power infrastructure the world's biggest tech companies run on. No homes, no offices, critical tech where every second counts.
UPS systems, battery banks, emergency power: the installations that keep servers from ever going down, even when the grid drops out. You get to places almost no one is allowed, one week Amsterdam, the next Frankfurt or Brussels. Physical, technical and precise, here a mistake is not an option.
No day is the same.
Amsterdam and Schiphol-Rijk sit in one of the largest data center clusters in Europe. With Schiphol-Rijk as your home base you travel to different data centers: nearby in the Randstad and sometimes further afield.
The data centers change, the clients change, the tech changes.
You're with a colleague in a data center in Amsterdam. You replace 16 battery modules in a UPS system that Microsoft, Google or Amazon depend on.
Maintenance on three UPS units in a data center just outside Brussels.
Battery measurements at a site in Rotterdam.
Preparing the next project: checking materials and coordinating with the team.
What you bring, what you get
What you bring
- MBO 3 Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience
- NEN 3140 VP and VCA VOL, or the willingness to obtain them
- Driver's license B
- You can work independently
- English at working level is a plus
- Willing to work abroad (regularly Benelux, occasionally further)
What we offer
- Manufacturer training on UPS systems from Eaton and Schneider Electric
- NEN 3140 and VCA certification if you don't have them yet
- LOTO and ESD training
- International work in Europe's most secure data centers
- Metal & Engineering CAO with travel allowance, overtime pay and ADV days
- A team of 20, no meeting culture, things get done
Your salary and your role grow with you
In this role you earn €3.300 at entry, rising to €4.100 as an experienced engineer. Growing on to Senior can later reach €4.900, but you are applying now for the Data Center Engineer role.
First Case is growing fast. Those with ambition grow into Senior Data Center Engineer, with project leadership, commissioning and client responsibility, up to €4.900 gross per month.
View the full growth ladder →Amounts shown are gross per month, excluding allowances, overtime and travel costs · those are added on top.
Last month I was in Frankfurt. The week before, two days in Belgium. You never know exactly where you'll be next week, but you do know it won't be a boring job.
In a few clear steps
Send a message
Via WhatsApp, no CV needed. One message is enough to start.
We call briefly
What you're after, what we're after. Twenty minutes on the phone.
Come ride along for three days
The trial. Ride along, see the work, feel if it clicks with the team.
★ TrialA good feeling on both sides?
Then we make it official. You sign, and you start.
First, come ride along for three days.
Talking about the work is one thing. Seeing it is another. That's why we invite you to ride along for three days to real data centers, with an experienced engineer. You see the work, the team and the locations from the inside. After that you'll know whether First Case suits you, and we'll know whether you suit us.
- Three days on site, simply paid
- We arrange workwear and transport
- No obligation, but an honest picture
Short lines. No meeting culture.
Since 2004 First Case has been the specialist for critical power infrastructure in data centers. A tight team of professionals: short lines, quick decisions, working on sites almost no one enters. The client demands that we come.