Working at Shock Media means working at the most enjoyable and largest managed hosting provider in the Netherlands. We build future-proof solutions without complexity for the customer. Our impact lies in reliability, continuity, security, and taking work off our customers’ hands. For more than 25 years, we have been the partner for everyone who wants to be online, secure, and scalable.
Working on an infrastructure that matters
At Shock Media, we ensure that organizations can rely on their digital environment day and night. We maintain, optimize, and monitor thousands of business-critical websites and applications. Our team consists of passionate specialists including developers, engineers, security experts, and Cloud architects. These top professionals not only make sure everything works, it is their mission to improve it every single day.
What makes Shock Media unique?
Working at Shock Media means working in an environment with a high level of technical depth. We work with many large clients who face complex challenges. Companies immediately get a technical specialist on the phone who has extensive knowledge and can dive straight into the systems to solve the problem.
Virtual teams: where flexibility and specialization come together
At Shock Media, in addition to the traditional departments such as Management, HR, Development, Engineering, Sales, and Security, we also work with five virtual teams.
Working in a virtual team takes place alongside regular duties. The idea behind this is that everyone can contribute and specialize in what he or she enjoys most. As someone grows in their role, he or she receives more project time that is spent within a virtual team. This way, everyone continues to develop further.
Virtual Team Cloud: They focus on Ansible, Public and Private clouds, Terraform, and automating our services.
Virtual Team Kubernetes: Focuses on our Managed App Platform, Managed Kubernetes, and manages our own and all customer-specific clusters.
Virtual Team Security & Tooling: They focus on the security of our platform and work with tools such as Wazuh. Wazuh is our SIEM and Security Platform. Within all web requests across our servers, they look for patterns that appear suspicious or indicate an attack. They mainly focus on recognizing these patterns and arranging blocks.
Virtual Team Infra: This team is responsible for all our hardware. This includes data center management, updating various network layers, installing new racks, and configuring hardware.
Virtual Team Optimization & Standards: The newest team within our virtual teams and therefore still in the development phase. The team will primarily focus on optimizing customer environments, but also on adding improvements to internal standards or documentation. The team works on smart solutions and improvements, for example: how can we make a WordPress environment even faster and more stable with the right tools and settings?
Room to grow
If a colleague really enjoys working with Ansible, they can join Virtual Team Cloud. If the colleague wants to learn something else, they can switch to another team. Together, we look at what fits the person and what fits Shock.
With our virtual teams, we help the team to develop further. Another advantage is that everything is transparent to other teams, which ensures smooth collaboration between all teams. For example, a Kubernetes engineer can build something with Ansible, and the Cloud team supports and checks where needed.
Each team has its own backlog and way of working. For every team, there is a limit of a maximum of 2 projects simultaneously. We do this deliberately to ensure that projects first deliver value or are completed. Only then do we start something new. This prevents us from staying too long in projects, something we see frequently in other organizations.
Our culture behind the technology
At Shock Media, we have a true “we-do-it-together mentality.” We don’t just throw something over the fence here. We work together on projects. We communicate quickly and easily via Slack. We approach each other with questions and are willing to help and share knowledge!
The place to be
Shock Media is a dream place for engineers with a passion for Linux. For those who truly love depth and gain energy from solving complex problems, this is where the challenge lies. There are very few places in the Netherlands where you can go this deep into technology and do it at this level. Not a sales pitch, just the real truth!
Making a difference together?
Does your heart beat faster after reading this blog? And do you want to strengthen our team with your technical skills and knowledge? Then we would love to hear from you!
At Shock Media, we are always open to motivated and talented top performers. Check out our vacancies and apply! Or send your motivation and CV to hr@shockmedia.nl. Who knows, you might soon be part of the most fun IT team in the Netherlands.
