Jobs
Netlog NV is recruiting!
To support our young and enthusiastic team, we are looking for dynamic professionals who are passionate about emerging technologies and committed to success. You can expect a competitive salary with a lot of extralegal advantages and exciting team-events.
Development
- Web Developer
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Function
Development of new features and maintenance of code for complex and much-frequented website using PHP/mySQL and Ajax/Javascript:- You will work individually or in a small team at a specific project;
- Most of your time, you will spend on coding new features;
- Keeping up with the new technologies;
- Attend relevant seminars, events, workshops,...
Skills and Experience
- Higher (4+ years) or University education (Master of Science degree);
- Excellent knowledge of object oriented PHP and mySQL;
- Good understanding of CSS, XHTML and Ajax;
- You speak fluently Dutch and/or English and you have a good knowledge of French;
- Passion for emerging web development technologies;
- Result-driven and enthusiastic;
- A good knowledge of networking is a plus;
- Experience with versioning systems (CVS, SVN) is a plus.
Personal Profile
- You respect deadlines, and you are able to set the right priorities;
- You are a team player and you enjoy working in various and dynamic teams;
- You can cope with pressure and tight deadlines;
- You have no "9 to 5" mentality.
IT Services
- IT Support
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Function
The IT Services-department serves our more than 35 million members, who generate 120.000 hits per second or more than 6 billion pageviews a month, and 650.000 dbase-queries per second or 8gbps.
As Internal IT Support, you will contribute to this success by providing our internal staff with desktop support, and assist with a wide range of upcoming IT projects. You manage the good working in the company but also you will have responsibilities concerning software licenses, domain-names,....
Our infrastructure is based on more than 1.500 high-end Dell PowerEdge servers with more than 10.000 cores and more than 15.000 GB ram operating under Linux (Debian), MySQL- enterprise databases, Apache & LightTPD application servers, Cisco 7600 routers,… Daily tasks will be:- Installation and support of our hard- and software (Mac/Apple);
- Support to our intern employees;
- Analyzing licenses;
- Maintain and engineer VOIP.
Skills and Experience
- You have an academic degree;
- You have a profound knowledge of Linux, PHP, MySQL, Apache Webserver;
- You speak fluently Dutch and/or English;
- A good knowledge of networking is a plus.
Personal Profile
- You have outstanding analytical and problem solving skills;
- You work in a methodological and structured way, and you pay attention to details;
- You respect deadlines, and you are able to set the right priorities;
- You are a team player and you enjoy working in various and dynamic teams;
- You can cope with pressure and tight deadlines;
- You have no "9 to 5" mentality.
- System Engineer
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Function
The IT Services-department serves our more than 35 million members, who generate 120.000 hits per second or more than 6 billion pageviews a month, and 650.000 database-queries per second or 8 gbps.
As System Engineer, you will contribute to this success by securing the availability and the efficiency of the entire IT infrastructure and, more specifically, in the management of our more than 1.500 Linux-servers.
Our infrastructure is based on more than 1.500 high-end Dell PowerEdge servers with more than 10.000 cores and more than 15.000 GB ram operating under Linux (Debian), MySQL- enterprise databases, Apache & LightTPD application servers, Cisco 7600 routers,… Daily tasks will be:- The administration of our more than 1.500 servers;
- Analyzing logfiles;
- Tuning of webservers;
- Updating packages;
- Fixing configurations;
- Security-updates.
Skills and Experience
- You have an academic degree;
- You have a profound knowledge of Linux, PHP, MySQL, Apache Webserver, bash, postfix;
- You speak fluently Dutch and/or English and you have a good knowledge of French.
Personal Profile
- You have outstanding analytical and problem solving skills;
- You work in a methodological and structured way, and you pay attention to details;
- You respect deadlines, and you are able to set the right priorities;
- You are a team player and you enjoy working in various and dynamic teams;
- Stress management is an absolute requisite for this job;
- You have no "9 to 5" mentality.
- Field Engineer
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Function
The IT Services-department serves our more than 35 million members, who generate 120.000 hits per second or more than 6 billion pageviews a month, and 650.000 database-queries per second or 8 gbps.
As Field Engineer, you will contribute to this success by managing the servers when there are problems. Beside that you are an allround talent who helps where necessary. You will work in Brussels and in Ghent as well.
Our infrastructure is based on more than 1.500 high-end Dell PowerEdge servers with more than 10.000 cores and more than 15.000 GB ram operating under Linux (Debian), MySQL- enterprise databases, Apache & LightTPD application servers, Cisco 7600 routers,… Daily tasks will be:- Install and deploy servers;
- Manage hardware;
- Improve custom cooling technologies in our datacenter;
- Power management of systems.
Skills and Experience
- You have an academic degree;
- You have a profound knowledge of Linux, PHP, MySQL, Apache Webserver, server hardware, electrics, networking;
- You speak fluently Dutch and/or French and you have a good knowledge of English.
Personal Profile
- You have outstanding analytical and problem solving skills;
- You work in a methodological and structured way, and you pay attention to details;
- You respect deadlines, and you are able to set the right priorities;
- You are a team player and you enjoy working in various and dynamic teams;
- Stress management is an absolute requisite for this job;
- You have no "9 to 5" mentality.
- Database Engineer
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Function
The IT Services-department serves our more than 35 million members, who generate 120.000 hits per second or more than 6 billion pageviews a month, and 650.000 database-queries per second or 8gbps.
As Database Engineer, you will contribute to this success by ensuring that everything concerning the database goes well.
The database is a MySQL Enterprise with a high availability, with 650000 queries per second.
Our infrastructure is based on more than 1.500 high-end Dell PowerEdge servers with more than 10.000 cores and more than 15.000 GB ram operating under Linux (Debian), MySQL- enterprise databases, Apache & LightTPD application servers, Cisco 7600 routers,… Daily tasks will be:- Recommend and implement both process and technology enhancements to continually improve overall database and system performance
- Monitor and support database operations, including backup and recovery, replication and configuaration processes, and strategies supprting multiple databases
- Detect best practices using fact-based analysis (research, statistics and evaluation).
Skills and Experience
- You have an academic degree;
- You have a profound knowledge of Linux, PHP, MySQL, Apache Webserver;
- You have a passion for relational databases;
- You speak fluently Dutch and/or French and you have a good knowledge of English.
Personal Profile
- You have outstanding analytical and problem solving skills;
- You work in a methodological and structured way, and you pay attention to details;
- You respect deadlines, and you are able to set the right priorities;
- You are a team player and you enjoy working in various and dynamic teams;
- Stress management is an absolute requisite for this job;
- You have no "9 to 5" mentality.
- Critical Engineer
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Function
The IT Services-department serves our more than 35 million members, who generate 120.000 hits per second or more than 6 billion pageviews a month.
As Critical Engineer, you will contribute to this success by being an all-round employee when the Netlog-site is visited most frequently.
Our infrastructure is based on more than 1.500 high-end Dell PowerEdge servers with more than 10.000 cores and more than 15.000 GB ram operating under Linux (Debian), MySQL- enterprise databases, Apache & LightTPD application servers, Cisco 7600 routers,… Daily tasks will be:- The administration of our more than 1.500 servers
- Analysing logfiles;
- Tuning of webservers;
- Updating packages;
- Fixing configurations;
- Security-updates.
Skills and Experience
- You have an academic degree;
- You have a profound knowledge of Linux, PHP, MySQL, Apache Webserver;
- You speak fluently Dutch and/or French and you have a good knowledge of English.
Personal Profile
- You have outstanding analytical and problem solving skills;
- You work in a methodological and structured way, and you pay attention to details;
- You respect deadlines, and you are able to set the right priorities;
- You are a team player and you enjoy working in various and dynamic teams;
- Stress management is an absolute requisite for this job;
- You have no "9 to 5" mentality.
- Security Engineer
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Function
The IT Services-department serves our more than 35 million members, who generate 120.000 hits per second or more than 6 billion pageviews a month, and 650.000 database-queries per second or 8 gbps.
As Security Engineer, you will contribute to this success by controlling the security of the site and by working on a pro-active way to improve the security.
Our infrastructure is based on more than 1.500 high-end Dell PowerEdge servers with more than 10.000 cores and more than 15.000 GB ram operating under Linux (Debian), MySQL- enterprise databases, Apache & LightTPD application servers, Cisco 7600 routers,… Daily tasks will be:- Risk management;
- Security-updates;
- Follow up technologies;
- Basic scripting;
- Analyzing log files;
- Maintain Firewall.
Skills and Experience
- You have an academic degree;
- You have a profound knowledge of Linux, PHP, MySQL, Apache Webserver, iptables, open vpn;
- You speak fluently Dutch and/or English and you have a good knowledge of French.
Personal Profile
- You have outstanding analytical and problem solving skills;
- You work in a methodological and structured way, and you pay attention to details;
- You respect deadlines, and you are able to set the right priorities;
- You are a team player and you enjoy working in various and dynamic teams;
- Stress management is an absolute requisite for this job;
- You have no "9 to 5" mentality.
Sales
- Personal Assistant
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Function
The Personal Assistant must apply excellent organizational skills, tact, diplomacy, effective communication skills, maintain confidentiality in sensitive matters, and display excellent judgement. A Personal Assistant has the ability to anticipate their employer's needs and take care of them before they are asked to do so.
- Calendar management, reconcile, confirm all appointments;
- Meeting and greeting guests arriving for meetings;
- Making travel arrangements;
- Writing correspondence and emails, following up with clients and business associates;
- Handling special projects;
- Gate keeping, answering phone and prioritizing importance.;
Skills and Experience
- This position requires an ambitious and proven personal assistant;
- You have more at least two years experience;
- You have a higher education;
- You are a proficient user of Office or iWork.
- You are fluent in Dutch, French and English, other European languages are an asset.
Personal Profile
- Strong skills set;
- You are a real multi-tasker, and can handle deadlines;
- You have a good sense of responsibility;
- You work in a methodological and structured way, and you pay attention to details;
- Detail oriented, double confirming everything;
- You are a team player and you enjoy working in various and dynamic teams;
- Can do attitude;
- (Re)location near Netlog offices in Ghent, Belgium.
- Business Developer EMEA
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Function
We’re more than a normal website – we’re a social community platform with a unified mission to create unexpected ways of online advertising that change brand perception. We’re growing rapidly and have a variety of European and national accounts. We’re looking for someone with experience in selling of online media campaigns for multiple clients that goes beyond the banner. Strong interest and an in-depth understanding of the (digital) media landscape, including emerging media and social networking, dedication and the willingness to learn are a must.
- You will drive online advertising revenues using integrated branding products of Netlog on a European level;
- You will liaise with new European strategic and revenue generating partners;
- You will translate client marketing and advertising objectives into successful digital media strategies;
- You will look beyond digital in order to develop the best possible campaign and results for our customers.
Skills and Experience
- You hold a masters degree;
- You speak fluently English, Dutch and/or French;
- You have a proven experience in a similar position (at least 3 years);
Personal Profile
- You are a true communicator and negotiator;
- You are result-driven, enthusiastic and highly demanding;
- You work in a methodological and structured way, and you pay attention to details;
- You have excellent commercial business skills;
- You respect deadlines, and you are able to set the right priorities;
- You are a team player and you enjoy working in various and dynamic teams;
- You can cope with pressure and tight deadlines;
- You are able to transform concepts and approaches in a commercially realistic action plan;
- You are willing to travel.
- Business Developer
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Function
We’re more than a normal website – we’re a social community platform with a unified mission to create unexpected ways of online advertising that change brand perception. We’re growing rapidly and have a variety of European and national accounts. We’re looking for someone with experience in selling of online media campaigns for multiple clients that goes beyond the banner. Strong interest and an in-depth understanding of the (digital) media landscape, including emerging media and social networking, dedication and the willingness to learn are a must.
- You will drive online advertising revenues using integrated branding products of Netlog in Belgium;
- You will liaise with new Belgian strategic and revenue generating partners;
- You will translate client marketing and advertising objectives into successful digital media strategies;
- You will look beyond digital in order to develop the best possible campaign and results for our customers.
Skills and Experience
- You hold a masters degree;
- You speak fluently English, Dutch and/or French;
- You have a first experience in a similar position;
Personal Profile
- You are a true communicator and negotiator;
- You are result-driven, enthusiastic and highly demanding;
- You work in a methodological and structured way, and you pay attention to details;
- You have excellent commercial business skills;
- You respect deadlines, and you are able to set the right priorities;
- You are a team player and you enjoy working in various and dynamic teams;
- You can cope with pressure and tight deadlines;
- You are able to transform concepts and approaches in a commercially realistic action plan.
Product Management
- Product Manager
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Function
The Product Manager will be responsible for the product planning, conceptual design and product lifecycle. This includes managing the product throughout its lifecycle, gathering and prioritizing requirements, defining the product development tasks and working closely with the CEO, CTO and development. It also includes working with sales and marketing to ensure the knowledge transfer.
- Manages multiple products with supervision;
- Shapes or champions new directions or new products;
- Evaluates and drives product management processes;
- Gathers and analyzes data from all sources, analyzes and understands competitors and their solutions;
- Be an expert with respect to the competition and the social networking-world.
Skills and Experience
- Minimum of two years as a product manager or product marketing manager;
- Affinity with web 2.0 and social networks;
- Excellent teamwork skills;
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority;
- Proven ability to manage multiple products simultaneously;
- Higher education.
Community
- Community Manager
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Function
The job opening for Community Manager is open to native speakers of one of the following languages: African, Arab, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Thai and Turkish.
- Responsible for customer support (Helpdesk), moderation (abuse handling, law enforcement relations), translations and animation (newsletter and partnerships) for a specific territory;
- Single point of contact for our members
Skills and Experience
- Higher education degree;
- Perfect knowledge (written and spoken) of the foreign language;
- High level of social intelligence.
Marketing
- Public Relations Manager
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Function
- Develop and maintain professional relationships with international and local press and media representatives;
- Compose and disseminate news releases, pitch letters, letters to the editor and media alerts concerning Netlog news and events;
- Maintain and provide updated information about all product and corporate events to journalists, broadcasters and relevant media;
- Represent Netlog at media events and conferences;
- Identify hot industry topics and utilize internal and external blogs to establish Netlog’s leading position;
- Create and maintain media mailing lists; telephone follow-up with media releases;
- Prepare media kits, marketing kits and presentations;
- Drive speaking engagements and contributed articles.
Skills and Experience
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree, preferably in Communication, Journalism or PR;
- Relevant experience in public relations;
- Proven track record delivering multilingual media coverage;
- Superior oral and written communication skills (English, Dutch, French, German, Spanish, plus one other European language).
Personal Profile
- Willingness to travel (1/4 of time);
- Excellent organization, management and communication skills;
- Ability to manage simultaneous tasks, to think out-of the-box and to take initiative;
- Ability to change direction quickly;
- Creative, intelligent, positive attitude, team player, flexible, reliable.
