Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer (d/f/m)

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Job Description

In order to support the development of high fidelity Aircraft Simulators, Airbus Defence and Space is looking for an experienced IT Infrastructure Engineer who will work in a team of passionate Infrastructure Engineers, DevOps Engineers and IT Administrators at our site in Manching, Germany.

You have the chance to directly shape the evolution of our infrastructure, our products and tools. Being part of our Infrastructure Team means that you fully buy into a "Platform-Development" and "Service Ownership" culture. You empower our Software and DevOps Engineers to take our products to the next level.

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 near‑by 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

• Define together with our software developers innovative IT Infrastructure and CI/CD concepts for our next generation of Simulators
• Develop and maintain our internal IaaS Services and the underlying technologies (e.g. Proxmox, Container Platforms, Ansible AWX, Lifecycle Management)
• Develop and maintain our internal PaaS Services (e.g. Jenkins, Nexus, SVN, Moodle)
• Ensure the smooth and reliable operation of our IT Infrastructure during normal business hours
• Continuously revise and improve the capabilities and reliability of our IT infrastructure by implementing Infrastructure‑as‑Code solutions across all our services
• Deliver commissioning, update and decommissioning services for our backbone as well as user‑related tools, services and computing resources (Bare‑Metal, Virtualisation, Servers, Network, Authentication)
• Coordinate closely with corporate IT services like ITSec and Networking

Desired Skills and Qualifications

• Master degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or related discipline
• At least 5 years of professional experience in the operation and design of Enterprise‑level IT Infrastructure
• High level of expertise in at least one or more related fields (e.g., virtualization, storage, automation)
• Experience with dynamic provisioning and immutable systems
• Solid multi‑distro Linux as well as Windows lifecycle management skills
• Experience in one or more scripting/programming languages (Ansible, Python, Bash, C++, Go)
• Proactivity and the urge to automate as much as possible are key
• Experience in DevOps and CI/CD development would be a plus
• Proficiency in related technologies: virtualization (Proxmox, KVM), provisioning tools (Ansible, Puppet), Hashicorp Toolstack (Terraform, Packer, Vault), container based infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes), storage solutions (Ceph, ZFS, Samba), monitoring (checkMK, Elastic), webservers (Apache, Nginx, HAProxy / Traefik), continuous integration (Jenkins, Gitlab), authentication (LDAP, IDM, Active Directory, Kerberos), networking (VLANs, Cisco IOS, DNS, DHCP, PXE), version control (Git)
• Excellent German and very good English (negotiation level)

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Company

Airbus Defence and Space GmbH

Employment Type

Permanent

Experience Level

Professional

Job Family

Testing

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