Linux System Administrator / Systems Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Linux System Administrator / Systems Engineer

• Location: Onsite near Gotha/Eisenach; occasional home office

• Contract: Permanent full-time (40 hours/week)

• Focus: Building and operating a new in-house data center

Description

You will help set up and run a new company data center from the start, shaping processes and standards. Work includes server hardware setup, networking configuration, automated Linux provisioning, system monitoring, and restoring service during outages. You will operate and further develop the Proxmox environment and support administration of additional server services and databases.

Responsibilities

• Procure server hardware (depending on assigned tasks)

• Assemble and test new server hardware

• Mount servers in racks and cable using copper and fiber (LWL)

• Set up network connections; configure switches and firewalls

• Automate operating system installations (e.g., PXE, Ansible, Puppet) and help define the approach

• Monitor servers and other hardware; restore operation during failures, including hardware replacement

• Operate and further develop Proxmox

• Support administration of Linux servers, configuration management (Puppet), and monitoring (CheckMk)

• Support administration of services such as Redis, RabbitMQ, Solr-Cloud, and ELK, plus MySQL/Percona databases

• Set up and monitor local and online backups

• Automate and actively help shape data center operations

Requirements

• Practical experience with server hardware (assembly, testing, rack mounting, cabling, component replacement)

• Experience with networks: switches, firewalls, VLAN, routing, cabling

• Experience operating Proxmox, including clusters and storage

• Solid Linux skills (e.g., Red Hat, Ubuntu or similar) and interest in automation of installations/configs

• Several years of system administration experience, ideally in a data center

• Analytical, structured thinking and very careful working style

• Willingness to work onsite in the Gotha/Eisenach data center

• Very good German (C1) or English (C1)

Benefits

• Opportunity to build a data center from the beginning and shape standards

• Thorough onboarding with the existing team

• 30 vacation days per calendar year

• Flexible working time model with core hours

• Generous training and professional development budget

• Monthly tax-free benefit in kind of 50 EUR

• Voluntary Christmas bonus

• After one year with the company: option for a representative company car