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. As part of our strategy, we are planning to upgrade our network to a fully redundant 100G connectivity and to redesign security measures such as NG firewalls, VPN, micro-segmentation, and ZTNA. Moreover, we are planning to raise the capacities and standards of the data centres on our campus. As part of our core IT infrastructure team, you will have a leading role in designing, implementing, and operating our campus network and data centres.

• Design, deployment, maintenance and upgrade of the Institute's network infrastructure (switches, wireless access points, fibre optic and copper connections)
• Configure, test and deploy new network security equipment including micro-segmentation, network authentication, next-generation firewalls, and VPN
• Provide 2nd and 3rd-level network support to identify, troubleshoot and solve network outages
• General knowledge of state-of-the-art data centre design and operating models
• Implement and optimise automated network management
• Documentation of network and data centre architecture as well as system configurations

Your Profile

• Ideally university-level IT education with a focus on networking or equivalent work experience
• Several years of experience with Cisco networking equipment (switches, routers)
• Strong knowledge in the fields of network security, firewalls, and VPN
• Experience with automation tools (e.g., Ansible, terraform, puppet) and scripting (e.g., shell, Perl, Python)
• Very good understanding of IP routing protocols, including BGP, IS-IS, OSPF
• Experience with container technologies and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus
• Eager to learn new technologies and the flexibility to develop in a changing environment
• Proactive, forward-looking, and independent working style is a must
• Reliable team-player with good communication skills
• Working language is English, good working knowledge in German is an advantage