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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.
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