IT Traineeship

Please note: you must have a good command of the Dutch language

Are you graduating soon or do you have a maximum of two years of relevant IT work experience? We offer an IT Traineeship where you develop yourself both professionally and personally towards a challenging and inspiring position as an IT engineer. And that's just the beginning!
The IT Traineeship at Wageningen University & Research (WUR) consists of a combination of working, learning, personal development, fun and daily challenges. You will work with different teams so that you get to know the organization well, you will discover where your talents lie so that you can carry out increasingly larger assignments.

We promise that in 18 months you will go through a development that will accelerate your career; you will work for a leading, international knowledge organization, you will receive substantive training and you will grow in the role of technical engineer or functional manager. You will receive a coach from the organization who will give you honest feedback and teach you how to adjust your behavior in such a way that you achieve results. In short; business, technology, ICT and (personal) development at WUR's IT department: a unique opportunity for a Young Professional.

What does the IT Traineeship entail?
You take a huge step in your career in a year and a half. You will develop both hard skills and soft skills, you will participate in challenging training courses with other enthusiastic trainees and you will obtain IT certificates. You can think of training courses such as ITIL, Digital Information Design, skills training such as Agile, personal effectiveness, time management, personal intervision, coaching and technical training such as CCNA, RHCSA, VCP and Azure Fundamentals. This is always in consultation and depends on your personal development.

Throughout the entire period, you will be guided by experienced professionals within our organization. You will not only support the day-to-day work, but you will also work on a number of innovation assignments within this traineeship. These assignments will give you a broad picture of our IT organization, you will quickly gain valuable experience and you will make contacts for the future. In the traineeship, you will be given the time and opportunity to find out where your ambitions and interests lie and to be well prepared to move on to a permanent position in one of our IT teams. You get to know yourself to discover what you want and can do, you get to know a lot of new colleagues and you get to know the organization.

In addition to all the educational moments, there is also room for fun. Every month we organize our IT drinks, WUR organizes the WE day (= sports day) and other fun activities. Click here if you want more information about our IT Traineeship (in Dutch).

This is where you're going to work
With 200 employees, our IT department provides a modern ICT environment for education and research. We work in multidisciplinary teams on current issues in the field of digitization, self-service, security, data/application management, high performance computing and cloud strategy. We have our own data centers and work entirely in the cloud. Our Infra teams provide the necessary compute, storage and networking capacity to enable groundbreaking research and education within WUR. Highly available, stable and above all user-friendly. In the background, but also very visible. So plenty of development and career opportunities for specialists at different levels.