Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Job description

Share our passion: Ever since our founder, Genichi Kawakami, established Yamaha Motor, it is our mission to give to ALL our customers KANDO. Not only with our products, but also with our employees. KANDO is a Japanese word to express the feeling of deep satisfaction and excitement you get when you encounter something of exceptional value, quality, and performance. You have the opportunity to be part of the Yamaha family. For Yamaha Motor Europe N.V., located at Schiphol-Rijk in the Netherlands, we are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer in our Information Systems Division. About the role: The Senior Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for all activities that contribute to ensuring the availability, resilience, security, and performance of Yamaha Motor Europe’s server, storage, virtualization, database, end user computing, and endpoint environments (such as VMware, Citrix, SQL, and managed endpoints), in line with agreed service levels. This enables users of Yamaha Motor Europe, European distributor organizations, and, where applicable, approved third parties to reliably use Yamaha’s business applications and workplace services. The role plays a key part in strengthening Yamaha’s operational resilience and cybersecurity posture, including alignment with EU NIS2 requirements for availability, risk management, incident preparedness, and recoverability. The Senior Infrastructure Engineer proactively identifies infrastructure related risks, contributes to mitigation measures, and supports audit readiness and compliance evidence for infrastructure controls. Your responsibilities: • Monitor, maintain, and operate Yamaha’s IT infrastructure platforms, ensuring agreed service levels are met. Working closely with a team of approximately 7 infrastructure professionals. • Ensure continuity and resilience of infrastructure services by minimizing business impact in the event of incidents or service disruptions. Contribute to backup, recovery, and continuity measures in line with operational resilience and NIS2 expectations for availability and recoverability. • Contribute to infrastructure security and risk reduction by identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities, supporting secure configuration standards, and responding to security incidents affecting infrastructure platforms. Support NIS2 aligned incident preparedness, response, and audit readiness in collaboration with Information Security and other stakeholders. • Manage infrastructure performance and capacity, ensuring stable, scalable, and efficient operation of platforms and services. Use monitoring and trend analysis to proactively identify capacity risks, performance degradation, or resilience gaps, and initiate improvement actions. • Maintain accurate configuration and asset information for infrastructure components, ensuring repositories reflect the actual operational environment and support configuration control, traceability, and auditability. • Provide and evolve infrastructure platforms in line with defined IT standards, architectural principles, and technology direction, supporting business applications throughout their lifecycle. • Plan and execute lifecycle and maintenance activities, including patching, upgrades, and decommissioning, while supporting internal controls, security measures, and audit requirements. • Continuously develop infrastructure expertise by staying up to date with relevant technologies, industry trends, and best practices, and by translating these into practical improvements for Yamaha’s IT environment. What do you bring? • Bachelor level working and thinking capability, acquired through education or relevant experience in IT or a related discipline. • Minimum of 6 years’ experience in a comparable enterprise IT infrastructure role, preferably in a complex or international environment. • Solid experience operating and supporting servers, virtualization, databases, and workplace platforms in business-critical environments. • Ability to learn and adapt in a continuously evolving technical landscape, translating new technologies and best practices into practical improvements. • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to independently investigate, diagnose, and resolve infrastructure incidents. • A structured and resilient mindset when dealing with operational risk, availability, and service continuity, aligned with modern resilience and security expectations (e.g. NIS2). • Clear communication and strong interpersonal skills, enabling effective collaboration with colleagues, stakeholders, and external partners in an international setting. • Professional proficiency in English, both spoken and written; knowledge of other European languages is considered an advantage. • Willingness to travel infrequently within Europe when required for projects, coordination, or operational support. Must have technical skills: • Enterprise infrastructure platforms, including: - Microsoft Windows Server - Microsoft SQL Server - Virtualization platforms (VMware) - Application and desktop virtualization (Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, Citrix WEM, Citrix Provisioning Services) • Identity and access technologies, including Microsoft Active Directory and ADFS • Backup and recovery solutions, preferably Veeam • Infrastructure security fundamentals, including secure configuration, patching, vulnerability awareness, and incident response principles • Strong understanding of availability, resilience, and recoverability in enterprise IT environments (aligned with NIS2 expectations) Nice to have skills: • Linux server administration • Microsoft System Center suite (SCOM, SCOR, SCCM) • Endpoint and workplace technologies, including thin clients (Wyse, IGEL) • Industrial or mobile devices, such as Android based hand terminals. • Exposure to cloud infrastructure platforms (e.g. Azure or AWS) About You! A motivated and inspirational colleague, happy to support the business and truly devoted to customer success. You are a humble team player, who is willing to learn and is not afraid to face challenges. Quality and professionalism lie close to your heart. About Yamaha Motor Europe Yamaha Motor Europe is responsible for coordinating the marketing and sales activities of our products in the European market, mainly: Yamaha motorcycles, scooters, marine engines, personal watercraft vehicles, boats, 4-wheeled all terrain and side-by-side vehicles (ATVs/SSVs), lightweight vehicles (golf cars, personal and commercial vehicles). What’s in it for you? • A diverse and international environment; • We offer a hybrid way of working, of course, this includes working from home allowance and a budget for setting up your home office • Commuting allowance, holiday allowance, and 28 days off to enjoy as you please • 13th-month payment and you will participate in our Bonus Program • Pension scheme • Learning and development opportunities • Discount on Yamaha products; • Your first contract will be a temporary contract, but with the intention to extend or offer an indefinite contract; • We support you in getting your motor or boat license; • Fuel up at "The Three Forks" with a breakfast or lunch—right here at the office and easy on the budget; • We offer Employee Assistance Program (EAP) to support you and your family with health, wellbeing and practical life matters; • Get to know your colleagues during our company/team events. Ready to Rev Your Potential? We are looking forward to receiving your CV and motivation letter. Note, an assessment will be part of our procedure. Agency? In case it is necessary we know where to find you! The information and/or imagery herewith provided may not be used for commercial purposes without explicit consent of Yamaha Motor Europe N.V. “© 2026, Yamaha Motor Europe N.V. All rights reserved.