System Administrator

At WATA Factory, we’re looking for a Senior System Administrator - Backup & Recovery to join our IT team and take on a key role in protecting, ensuring availability, and evolving our systems within a hybrid and distributed environment. You will work closely with another senior profile, combining day-to-day operations with a strategic, long-term perspective.

If you enjoy taking responsibility for critical infrastructure, working in stable environments, and balancing operational tasks with continuous improvement and technological evolution, we’d love to meet you., * Operate, secure, and continuously evolve the global backup, recovery, and archiving infrastructure, ensuring data integrity, business continuity, and high security standards

• Approximate workload distribution: 60-70% operations and 10-30% strategy and continuous improvement
• Operation, maintenance, and evolution of global backup, recovery, and archiving infrastructure in hybrid environments (on-premise and cloud)
• Administration of servers and operating systems, including deployments, updates, hardening, and maintenance
• Monitoring backup execution, analysing incidents, and performing data recovery when required
• Analysis of errors in backup processes, data incidents, and execution of corrective actions
• Definition and management of data retention, compliance, and protection policies
• Planning, execution, and documentation of Disaster Recovery tests (on-premise and cloud), including reporting for stakeholders
• Support for internal IT and users on data protection and restoration topics
• Active participation in the technological evolution of the backup environment and evaluation of new solutions
• Ensuring the security of backup environments, including non-domain-joined backup servers, dedicated backup systems, and minimisation of attack surfaces and security risks
• Administration and support of VMware environments, including the creation of new systems and virtual environments
• Collaboration in datacenter operations, monitoring, domain management, and patching
• Implementation and maintenance of AD tiering, use of PAWs, and hardening of Windows and Linux systems

• More than 10 years of experience in system administration
• Strong experience in Backup & Recovery in hybrid and distributed environments
• Strong experience in Critical infrastructure and data protection
• Strong experience in Active Directory tiering and environment hardening
• Strong experience in Hardening of Windows and Linux systems
• Strong experience in Virtualisation, especially VMware
• Database knowledge; experience with Microsoft SQL Server in hybrid, distributed, or clustered environments is highly valuable
• Experience working in high-security environments and protecting IT infrastructures, * Vocational training in IT or a university degree in Computer Science or a related field, * All-rounder profile with a holistic view of systems, virtualisation, and datacenter operations
• Analytical, methodical, and structured approach to daily operations
• High sense of responsibility for critical systems and applications
• Continuous improvement mindset and curiosity for new backup and recovery technologies
• Ability to align IT services with real business needs and stakeholder requirements
• Willingness to participate in interdisciplinary projects and take on new challenges, * Strong team-oriented and service-driven mindset
• Proactive, collaborative, and solution-oriented attitude
• Motivation to contribute beyond the core role and add value to the wider team
• Enjoys shared achievements and actively contributes to a positive working atmosphere
• Driven to push improvements in a dynamic and growing environment

Languages

• German is a plus

• Permanent contract from day one
• Long-term, stable projects with clear technical ownership
• Structured onboarding process of up to one year, ensuring deep understanding of the product, domain and architecture
• 30 working days of holiday, plus official German public holidays
• Access to our internal technical library
• Private health insurance
• Weekly technical training sessions
• Flexible working: from home, the office, or hybrid
• Support from experts specialised in various areas
• No dress code - wear what makes you comfortable
• Friendly, collaborative working environment
• Modern office with high-end hardware and leisure areas