IT Infrastructure Engineer

In order to support the development of high fidelity Aircraft Simulators, Airbus Defence and Space is looking for a, In order to develop the architecture and solutions for the next generation of our simulators, we are currently looking for an additional experienced IT Infrastructure Engineer. You 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., * 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)
• Ensuring the smooth and reliable operation of our IT Infrastructure (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
• Delivering 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

• Master degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or a 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), Infrastructure provisioning Tools (Ansible, Puppet), Hashicorp Toolstack (Terraform, Packer, Vault), Container based Infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes), Storage Solutions (Ceph, ZFS, Samba), Monitoring (checkMK, Elastic), Webserver (Apache, Nginx, HAProxy / Traefik), Continuous Integration (Jenkins, Gitlab), Authentication (LDAP, IDM, Active Directory, Kerberos), Networking (VLANs, Cisco IOS, DNS, DHCP, PXE), Version Control Management (Git)
• Excellent German and very good English (negotiation level), 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.