Simulation IT-Administator (d/f/m)

Job Description:

In order to support our high-fidelity Aircraft Simulation development, Airbus Defence and Space is looking for a

Simulation IT-Administrator (d/f/m)

In Manching, we develop high-fidelity Aircraft Simulators, which are distributed real-time systems. To support their development and operation, we rely on a powerful, Linux-based, self-managed IT infrastructure. To enhance and evolve our infrastructure, we are looking for an experienced IT Administrator to join our passionate team of Infrastructure Engineers and IT Administrators. In this role, you will directly contribute to shaping our infrastructure, tools, and processes, empowering our software and DevOps engineers to take our products to the next level.

This role is also available with reduced weekly hours and an adapted scope of tasks.

Your location

Located about an hour’s drive north of Munich, Manching is an up-and-coming market town that offers a wide range of leisure and cultural activities. Here, you can enjoy the quality of life in the countryside while the pleasures of nearby cities are still within easy reach.

Your benefits

• Attractive salary and special payments

• 30 days paid vacation and extra days-off for special occasions

• Excellent upskilling opportunities and great international, group-wide development prospects

• Special benefits: employer-funded pension, employee stock options, discounted car leasing, special conditions for insurances, subsidies for public transport, employee benefits at cooperating companies

• On-site facilities: medical officer for check-ups and other health-related services, canteen and cafeteria, kindergarten close to the site

• Compatibility of family & work (job sharing, part-time models, flexible working hours, individual timeout)

• Working in a diverse environment, with more than 140 nationalities, where every voice is heard

Your tasks and responsibilities

• Ensure the smooth and reliable operation of our IT infrastructure and provide support to our developer community regarding their IT infrastructure needs (normal business hours)

• Deliver commissioning, updates, and decommissioning services for our backbone as well as user-related tools, services, and computing resources (Bare-Metal, Virtualization, Servers, Network, Authentication ...)

• Continuously improve the capabilities and reliability of our IT infrastructure

• Take an active role in implementing an Infrastructure-as-Code paradigm across all our services

• Maintain and develop our internal IaaS services and the underlying technologies (e.g., Proxmox, Container Platforms, Ansible AWX, Lifecycle Management)

• Maintain and develop our internal PaaS services (e.g., Jenkins, Nexus, SVN, Moodle ...)

Desired skills and qualifications

•  Completed vocational training as Fachinformatiker - Systemintegration, IT System Administrator, or an equivalent formation

•  At least 5 years of professional experience in the full-stack operation and design of IT infrastructure

• High level of expertise in at least one or more related fields (e.g., virtualization, storage, automation...)

• Experience in one or more scripting/programming languages (Ansible, Python, Bash, C++, Go, PHP ...)

• Solid multi-distro Linux skills

• Experience with dynamic provisioning and immutable systems would be a plus

• Advanced English skills

• Proactivity, customer orientation, and an urge to automate as much as possible are key  

Related Technologies:

• Virtualization (Proxmox, KVM)

• Authentication (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)

• Infrastructure provisioning tools (Ansible, Puppet)

• The HashiCorp toolstack (Terraform, Packer, Vault)

• Container-based infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Storage solutions (Ceph, ZFS, Samba)

• Monitoring (checkMK, Icinga, Prometheus)

• Webserver (Apache, Nginx, HAProxy / Traefik)

• Continuous Integration (Jenkins)

• Networking (VLANs, Cisco IOS, DNS, DHCP, PXE)

• Version control and artifact management (Git, Nexus, Artifactory)

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This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company:

Airbus Defence and Space GmbH

Employment Type:

Permanent

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Experience Level:

Professional

Job Family:

Testing

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