Are you passionate about system and network engineering and enjoy exploring new challenges? Then keep reading to discover an opportunity to put your skills into practice.
Join us!
The Teaching and Research Assistant would contribute to the teaching team in actively supporting delivery of teaching material and activities. The teaching team mostly consists of academic staff members embedded in the Informatics Institute, that bring their research and state-of-the-art knowledge to the labs, in a hands-on manner, from laying down network cables to software and hardware security topics and forensic analysis of various devices.
This is what you will do
You will actively work with course coordinators and lecturers in developing their research-based material and labs for security and network engineering courses. This includes deployment of material and labs, as well as helping students in relevant technologies (e.g. installing network setups/configurations, using software/hardware hacking equipment, setting up servers, repositories, development environments and containers, etc.).
Tasks and responsibilities:
- Deployment of security and network engineering material and labs;
- Assisting, monitoring progress and grading of student projects;
- Coordination of Master theses projects, tracking and supporting student success;
- Helping manage the community around the Master's programme.
What we ask of you
Your experience and profile:
- MSc in Computer Science or equivalent;
- Technical experience in Computer Networks and/or Cybersecurity;
- Be a motivated teacher, with a thorough and encouraging teaching style;
- Experience in supporting tasks and the willingness to take the responsibility for administrative tasks, such as organisation and coordination of university education and research;
- Professional command of English.
This is what we offer you
We offer a temporary employment contract for 32-28 hours per week for a period of 10 month ending august 2027. The preferred starting date is as soon as possible. The gross monthly salary, based on 38 hours per week and dependent on relevant experience, ranges between € 3,537 to € 4,673 (scale 8). This does not include 8% holiday allowance and 8,3% year-end allowance. The UFO profile Medewerker Onderwijs & Onderzoek is applicable. The Collective Labour Agreement of Universities of the Netherlands is applicable.
You will work in this team
The Faculty of Science has a student body of around 8,000, as well as 1,800 members of staff working in education, research or support services. Researchers and students at the Faculty of Science are fascinated by every aspect of how the world works, be it elementary particles, the birth of the universe or the functioning of the brain. The Informatics Institute is one of the seven educational institutes of the Faculty of Science (FNWI) and is responsible for the master's programmes in Artificial Intelligence, Computational Science, Computer Science, Information Studies, Software Engineering en System and Network Engineering in which currently at around 1400 students are enrolled. The education is provided by lecturers and researchers working within the GSI itself or at various research institutes, including the Instituut voor Informatica (IvI), the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) and the Korteweg-de Vries Instituut voor Wiskunde (KDV). Want to know more about our organisation? Read more about working at the University of Amsterdam.
If you feel the profile fits you, and you are interested in the job, we look forward to receiving your application. We accept applications until and including 31-10-2026. However, if a suitable candidate is selected earlier, we will close the vacancy.
If you have any questions or do you require additional information? Please contact Kostas Papagiannopoulos via k.papagiannopoulos@uva.nl
Applications should include the following information (all files should be submitted in a .pdf file):
- a detailed CV including the months (not just years) when referring to your education and work experience;
- a letter of motivation.
Only complete applications received within the response period will be considered.
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