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Do you enjoy turning ideas into working solutions and modernizing complex technology environments?\nWe are looking for a Change & Innovation Engineer who can help shape and implement the next generation of Northwave's technology landscape.\nYour focus will be on building what comes next, rather than running what already exists. You will work on migrations, modernization, cloud technology, automation, AI-enabled solutions and strategic technology projects.\n\nWhat will you do?\nLead technical implementation and migration activities.\n\nDesign and deploy cloud, infrastructure, workplace, identity, security and platform solutions.\n\nModernize legacy technologies and services.\n\nIdentify and implement automation opportunities.\n\nBuild solutions using technologies such as Power Automate, Logic Apps, scripting and APIs.\n\nExplore and implement AI-enabled capabilities where they offer measurable value.\n\nWork with technologies including Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365.\n\nDevelop proofs of concept and pilots for emerging technologies.\n\nCollaborate with Architecture, Security, Run Engineering, vendors and business stakeholders.\n\nEnsure solutions are secure, scalable and maintainable.\n\nProduce clear technical and implementation documentation.\n\nTransfer newly implemented solutions into operational ownership through structured handovers.\n\nRequirements\nWhat do you bring?\nExperience delivering IT implementations, migrations or transformation projects.\n\nStrong understanding of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 technologies.\n\nBroad understanding of infrastructure, networking, identity, security and cloud.\n\nExperience with automation platforms such as Power Automate, Azure Logic Apps or similar technology.\n\nScripting experience, for example PowerShell or Python.\n\nUnderstanding of Generative AI and intelligent automation.\n\nStrong solution-design and systems-integration skills.\n\nExcellent analytical and problem-solving capabilities.\n\nThe ability to turn an idea or requirement into an implemented technical solution.\n\nStrong stakeholder-engagement and communication skills.\n\nExperience with Microsoft Copilot, AI agents, Azure AI technologies, intelligent assistants or AI-enabled workflow solutions is an advantage.\n\nWhat we offer\nCompetitive salary, paid on the 25th, with annual review and 8% holiday allowance\n\nPension through Nationale Nederlanden, Northwave contributes 50%, including partner pension\n\n25 vacation days plus all Dutch national holidays\n\nGenerous special leave for marriage, birth, bereavement, care and parental leave\n\nLease car based on salary scale (electric welcome), or choose €0.25/km plus 50% of the lease budget as mobility allowance\n\nMacBook, phone and accessories fully provided\n\n€200 net annual allowance for flexible and remote working\n\nAlleo budget for sports, wellness and leisure of your choice\n\nLearning budget up to €4,500 for longer programmes\n\nReferral bonus when you bring in a great new colleague\n\nHybrid working from a modern office in Utrecht\n\nPersonal growth through the Role Model and FeedForward cycle, your ambitions and development front and centre\n\nWho you are\nYou are an engineer who prefers systems over slogans. You like understanding how things actually work in production and improving them where they break, slow down, or create noise.\n\nYou have a done a similar job for at least 5 years.\n\nYou are comfortable working close to operations. You do not need everything fully specified upfront, and you are able to translate practical SOC needs into technical solutions that hold up under pressure.\n\nYou take ownership of what you build and feel responsible for keeping it understandable, maintainable, and secure.\n\nYou communicate clearly with analysts and engineers, make pragmatic choices, and focus on outcomes rather than theoretical perfection.\n\nData Ingestion & Normalization: log ingestion/standardization\n\nStrong experience with Security tooling in a Multi-Tenancy Architecture like: SIEM concepts, Alert correlation, Vulnerability management, Security architecture\n\nDevOps/Platform Engineering experience such as:CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Git, Containerization\n\nWhy Northwave\nAt Northwave, this role sits close to real security operations. The systems you build are used daily by SOC analysts and directly affect how incidents are detected, escalated, and resolved.\nYou are not building demos or side projects. You are improving a production SOC stack that protects real organizations. Decisions are made quickly, technical input is taken seriously, and improvements are implemented rather than parked on a roadmap.\nYou work with experienced professionals in an environment that values competence, responsibility, and getting things right.\nInterested in building systems that are used under real pressure, not in theory?\nContact Youri Roelofs at .","description_format":"text","description_chars":4965,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Apple Macbook","Hybrid work","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Netherlands","iso":"NL","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Cybersecurity","Penetration Testing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-11T22:41:38Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":9,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.336,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":287,"expected_fill_days":35,"reasons":["conf:1","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-11-12T00:15:32Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":93228,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/northwave-change-innovation-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/northwave-change-innovation-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-12T00:15:32Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":579,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-13T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":54533},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=54533"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fnorthwave-change-innovation-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fnorthwave-change-innovation-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fnorthwave-change-innovation-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/northwave-change-innovation-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fnorthwave-change-innovation-engineer"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4106634}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"northwave-cybersecurity.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4106634},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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