Junior IT Administrator (all genders) – Infrastructure

Tws-Partners-Ag; München; Hybrid; EUR 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

TWS Partners Munich is seeking a Junior IT Administrator to join our infrastructure team. You will gain hands-on experience across servers, virtualization, backup, network and monitoring, ensuring consultants can rely on robust IT support.

Monitor infrastructure, support VMware/Windows/Linux operations, assist with Fortinet networking, and contribute to runbooks and IT projects in a fast-paced consultancy environment. This role offers hybrid work in Munich and real responsibility from day one.

Qualifications

• 1–3 years of experience in IT administration or infrastructure support.
• Solid knowledge of Windows/Linux servers, networking and virtualization.
• Good understanding of backup, monitoring and IT security fundamentals.
• Fluent English; German language skills are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Monitor infrastructure availability, performance and alerts using Icinga and other tools.
• Monitor Veeam backup jobs, troubleshoot routine failures and support recovery testing.
• Support VMware vSphere/VxRail and Windows/Linux server operations.
• Assist with network administration, including Fortinet switches, Wi‑Fi and VPN infrastructure.
• Carry out approved maintenance, server patching and routine infrastructure checks.
• Support vulnerability remediation and security monitoring using tools such as Wazuh.
• Maintain technical documentation, runbooks and system inventories.
• Support TISAX‑related technical evidence collection and IT projects.

Skills

Strong troubleshooting skills

Willingness to learn

Fluent English

German language skills

Education

IT vocational training (e.g. Fachinformatik-Systemintegration or Digitale Vernetzung)

Tools

VMware

Veeam

Fortinet

Icinga

Wazuh

PowerShell/Bash

Job description

Junior IT Administrator (all genders) – Infrastructure

Full-time

Your mission

As part of our internal IT team, you help keep our infrastructure running smoothly – from servers and virtualisation to backup, network and monitoring. It’s a varied role where you gain hands‑on experience across the entire infrastructure stack and make sure our consultants can rely on their IT every day.

• Monitor infrastructure availability, performance and alerts using Icinga and other tools
• Monitor Veeam backup jobs, troubleshoot routine failures and support recovery testing
• Support VMware vSphere/VxRail and Windows/Linux server operations
• Assist with network administration, including Fortinet switches, Wi‑Fi and VPN infrastructure
• Carry out approved maintenance, server patching and routine infrastructure checks
• Support vulnerability remediation and security monitoring using tools such as Wazuh
• Maintain technical documentation, runbooks and system inventories
• Support TISAX‑related technical evidence collection and IT projects

Your profile

• 1–3 years of experience in IT administration or infrastructure support.
• Solid knowledge of Windows/Linux servers, networking and virtualisation.
• Good understanding of backup, monitoring and IT security fundamentals.
• Strong troubleshooting skills, willingness to learn and fluent English skills.

• IT vocational training (e.g. in Fachinformatik‑Systemintegration or Digitale Vernetzung) or equivalent technical experience.
• 1–3 years of experience in IT administration or infrastructure support.
• Solid knowledge of Windows/Linux servers, networking and virtualisation.
• Good understanding of backup, monitoring and IT security fundamentals.
• Strong troubleshooting skills, willingness to learn and fluent English skills.

Nice to have: VMware, Veeam, Fortinet, Icinga, Wazuh, PowerShell/Bash and German language skills.

Why us?

You’ll join our IT team where your work makes a difference every day: you keep the systems running that all our colleagues rely on. You’ll gain hands‑on experience in a broad, modern IT environment, take on real responsibility early on and grow with every project.

• Real responsibility from day one, with room to grow
• Hands‑on experience with a modern and varied IT stack
• Hybrid working in our Munich office
• A supportive and diverse team
• Company activities and social events

About us

We believe traditional business strategies worked well, in the old world. But today – they don’t work anymore. The business world is a more uncertain playing field than ever before. We need new rules and new tools for a whole new world. If you believe that too, it’s your turn to change the game with us.

TWS Partners is the leading economic strategy consultancy. We put game theory into application for organisations that want to challenge the status quo and transform the way they do business. With our unique economic mindset and proven approach, we enable organisations to adopt a game‑changing strategy to play the new business game.