Linux Systemadministrator & Data Center Infrastructure Manager (m/f/d) – remote area Mutterstadt

 Linux system administration: (80 percent)

• Ticket Processing: You process requests that come in via our ticket system
• Monitoring: You continuously monitor business-critical customer and server connections and administer Linux and Windows servers
• Maintenance: You maintain the existing infrastructure as well as the Graylog environment, e.g. by performing software updates and migrations, and are responsible for coordinating the maintenance work of our service providers
• Error Analysis: You perform problem analyses of different errors
• Automation: You support the automation of administration and deployment tasks as well as the continuous improvement of monitoring

Data centre maintenance: (20 percent)

• Data Centre Management: You support the solution of DCIM problems
• System Components: You will be responsible for the installation or replacement of system components (CPU, RAM, drives, etc.)
• Cabling & Connectivity: You will install cabling (UTP/fibre/twinax) according to best practices, check the existing cabling system and make any necessary changes to the connectivity
• Equipment Diagnostics & Troubleshooting: You are responsible for performing tests and troubleshooting copper/fibre cables and testing circuits and end-to-end connections
• Asset Inventory: You are responsible for the asset inventory and create infrastructure diagrams, records and documentation

• Education & Experience: You are a system administrator (m/f/d) and have a university degree in computer science, a degree in IT system integration (m/f/d) or a comparable qualification   
• Tech Stack: Ideally, you bring the following knowledge:       
  • Programming Languages: Bash, Python or Perl    
  • Linux Clustering: Red Hat, CentOS    
  • Web & Application Servers: Apache HTTP Server, mod_proxy
• Environment Skills: You already have experience in large production and database environments based on Linux 
• Maintenance Skills: Maintaining large MySQL clusters is not a challenge for you  
• Personality: You have a very good grasp and can quickly adapt to new situations  
• Language Skills: You can easily communicate in German and English in our intercultural environment in any situation
• Location: You work from your home office within a radius of 20-30km around Mutterstadt
• Willingness to travel & Flexibility: You are open to perform ad hoc tasks in the data centre in Mutterstadt – ideally you have a car at your disposal