IT Infrastructure Specialist

Quick Facts

• Role: IT Infrastructure Specialist

• Employment: Full-time, 38 hours/week (unlimited)

Description

You will operate, administer, and further develop the company’s data center infrastructure and central IT systems. Your tasks include supporting servers and virtualization environments, ensuring availability and performance, performing patch management and planned security updates, monitoring systems, and troubleshooting incidents. You will also contribute to security measures and backup/restore and disaster-recovery concepts.

Responsibilities

• Operate, administer, and develop the data center infrastructure

• Maintain servers, virtualization environments, storage, and backup systems

• Ensure availability, performance, and failover reliability of central IT systems

• Plan, coordinate, and execute regular system and security updates as part of structured patch management

• Assess updates and security advisories and plan suitable maintenance windows

• Document changes and maintain system and infrastructure overviews

• Monitor systems and analyze and resolve issues in the data center environment

• Implement and further develop IT security measures such as system hardening, access rights, and vulnerability management

• Support the development of backup, restore, and disaster recovery concepts

• Work with internal departments and external IT service providers

Requirements

• Completed IT vocational training or equivalent qualification

• Good knowledge of server operating systems and virtualized infrastructure

• Basic knowledge of IT security, especially system hardening, vulnerability management, and permission/access concepts

• Analytical and structured working style with high responsibility

• Independence, initiative, and enjoyment of collaborating with different specialist teams

• Willingness to continuously learn new technologies and security requirements

• Willingness to take part in on-call duty and support the resolution of security-relevant IT incidents outside regular working hours

Benefits

• Permanent employment

• Tariff-regulated pay and social benefits

• 30 days of vacation

• Company pension provision

• Health promotion (e.g., bike leasing)

• Free fruit and hot drinks

• In-house canteen

• Good public transport connections and employee parking