Your Responsibilities

Excellent research needs state-of-the-art IT infrastructure and innovative digital services. With a team of about 50 experts, we will redesign the institute's digital landscape over the next few years and implement an ambitious digital transformation programme to facilitate the Institute’s rapid growth.
You will be part of the IT infrastructure team, which designs, plans, builds and carefully looks after the on-premises networks and systems. You will be one of the go to specialists when it comes to network administration. As you will work in a dynamic environment, developing and providing new services for our campus users will also a big part of this position.

• Participate in design, deployment, maintenance and upgrade of the Institute's network infrastructure (switches, routers, wireless access points, fiber optic & copper circuits)
• Configure, test and deploy new network/security equipment
• Provide 2nd and 3rd-level network support
• Identify, troubleshoot and solve software and hardware network outages
• Implement and maintain scripts for the automated management of the network
• Document configuration and network infrastructure setup

Your Profile

• IT education, ideally with focus on network or equivalent work experience
• Work experience with Cisco networking equipment (switches, routers)
• Knowledge in the fields of network security, VPN and firewalls
• Experience with scripting (e.g. shell, Perl, python) and automation tools (e.g. Ansible, terraform, puppet)
• Basic understanding of IP routing protocols, including BGP, IS-IS, OSPF
• Some experience with container technologies and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Eager to learn new technologies and the flexibility to develop in a changing environment
• Reliable team-player with good communication skills
• Working language is English, good working knowledge in German is an advantage