Senior system engineer
- Started working as virtualisation engineer (vSphere), Specialized in storage
- Added Citrix and "remote workspace" in the last 2 years
- 20% of my job is technical pre-sales
- Current internal Level D
- started out as Level A, rushed through the levels B and C due to no social life/girlfriend
- As of level E, there are "sublevels" (E1, E2, E3, ... E6)
- Level F is management function (F1 = team coordinator, F2 = team leader, F3 = team manager, F4 = ....)
1. PERSONALIA
- Age: 29 (turning 30 later this year)
- Education: Bachelors degree (+ various technical certificates)
- Work experience : 8 years total (all at current employer)
- Civil status: Single
- Dependent people/children: None
2. EMPLOYER PROFILE
- Sector/Industry: IT / Consulting
- Amount of employees: +450
- Multinational? +/- | Most active in Belgium, but small office in Luxemburg, Netherlands and France
3. CONTRACT & CONDITIONS
- Current job title: Senior System Engineer
- Seniority: 8 years
- Official hours/week : 38 hours/week
- Average real hours/week incl. overtime: 40-50 per week
- Shiftwork or 9 to 5 (flexible?): flex, expected to be online between 10AM and 3PM
- On-call duty: Weekly rotation friday-friday, between 6PM and 8AM on weekdays, 24h in weekend - €350 per shift + if you get called, your hours get paid/recuperated at either 150% or 200%
- Vacation days/year: 20 legal + 12 "hidden ADV" + 5 seniority (+ recuperated overtime)
(officially we don't have ADV days, we can either buy them via flex income plan, or have them paid out)
4. SALARY
- Gross salary/month: 4000
- Average net salary/month (incl. net fees): 3400-3500 average in last 6 months
- Netto compensation: 460
- 13th month (full? partial?): Full
- Meal vouchers: 0 - but 8€/day netto compensation
- Ecocheques: 250€/year
- Salary car/bike and/or fuel card: GLB200d - BELUX unlimited fuel card
- Group insurance (% employer): Yes, unkown %
- Other insurances: Yes, hospitalisation + "ambulante" zorg (top tier)
- Other benefits (bonuses, stocks options, ... ):
- Yearly bonus, based on team-objective (100% of gross monthly salary) + multiplier of max 150% via personal objective.
- Flexible Income plan (only use the vacation days / cash bonus / cellphone)
- full unlimited cellphone plan
- 12,5% of my gross salary is paid out as IP
5. MOBILITY
- City/region of work: Oost-Vlaanderen / West-Vlaanderen / Antwerpen
- Distance home-work (km's/time):
- To office: 36KM in 45 minutes (1 day per week)
- To customer: depends, I'm all over Belgium (average of 1 day per week)
- How do you commute? Car or motorbike
- How is the travel home-work compensated: Company car (or get paid my fuel for my bike)
- Telework days/week: On average 3 days/week
6. OTHER
- How easy can you plan a day off: Easily. self-managed calendar, no management approval needed
- Is your job stressful? Depends on period
- Education possibilities: A lot internally + external certificates
- Responsible for personnel (reports): No.