Linux System Administrator (m/f/d) Ref. No. 26-82195

Terma Group; Frankfurt; Hybrid; EUR 55.000 - 75.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Terma Group is seeking a Linux System Administrator for EUMETSAT in Darmstadt, Germany. The position involves managing virtualization and IT core services, offering support in a complex environment.

The ideal candidate should have an academic degree and substantial experience with various operating systems and virtualization technologies. This is a full-time hybrid role, allowing for up to 3 days of remote work per week.

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years hands-on experience with IBM AIX administration and troubleshooting.
• Experience in core services management (DNS/LDAP/DHCP/infrastructure).
• Fluency in English (spoken and written) is mandatory.

Aufgaben

• Act as Single Point of Contact for incidents and anomalies for systems.
• Installation and configuration of operating systems and software.
• Monitor system performance and investigate issues.

Kenntnisse

IBM AIX or GNU/Linux operating system(s)

Virtualization technologies (VMware, NSX, PowerVC)

Automation (ansible)

Monitoring (CheckMK, Nagios)

Experience with 24/7 large computing environments and operational best practices

Communication and interpersonal skills

Ausbildung

Academic degree in IT, Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)

Dell PowerEdge, HPE ProLiant, Cisco UCS, Lenovo ThinkSystem

Jobbeschreibung

For our customer EUMETSAT in Darmstadt, Germany, we are seeking a Linux System Administrator with wide technical knowledge on design and operation of IT core services. The main activities involve virtualization and infrastructure technologies, VMware, GNU/Linux and IBM AIX.

The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) is an intergovernmental organisation created through an international convention agreed by a current total of 30 European Member States.

EUMETSAT's primary objective is to establish, maintain and exploit European systems of operational meteorological satellites. EUMETSAT is responsible for the launch and operation of the satellites and for delivering satellite data to end-users as well as contributing to the operational monitoring of climate and the detection of global climate changes.

Responsibilities

Your tasks will typically include but are not limited to:

• Act as Single Point of Contact for incidents and anomalies for EUMETSAT's Operational systems via Ticketing system.
• Installation and configuration of operating system and other software, tuning of operating systems parameters to optimize performance.
• Analysis, planning, and performance tuning of Hardware (HW) and Software (SW) installations, ensuring compatibility between subsystems.
• Monitoring of the system performance, investigation of HW and system SW problems and performance of the relevant corrective actions.
• Ensuring that in case of HW or system SW failures the operational configuration can be restored, including the definition, maintenance, performance of backup procedures.
• Liaise with the external providers of HW and system SW maintenance for the request and follow up of maintenance interventions.
• Administration of user accounts, disk quotas and technical user support.
• Support to SW development and maintenance on system related matters implementation and maintenance of scripts and/or procedures where applicable for the automated and/or controlled execution of the above activities, generation, or update of technical documentation in relation to system upgrades.
• Provide cloud systems administration and maintenance (take over routine operations, monitoring, troubleshooting, patching, and upgrading, etc.).
• Design, maintain and improve infrastructure automation strategies.
• Provide end user cloud support (e.g., guidance for best infrastructure utilization, review and improve use cases, troubleshoot problems, and provide ad-hoc training and expertise).
• Develop, enhance, and maintain IaC (Infrastructure as Code) scripts and configurations (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) to automate infrastructure provisioning and management.

For day to day activities you shall apply the relevant change control and maintenance procedures. The complex environment requires a wide background of technical knowledge therefore your natural curiosity will help you to resolve complicated situations.

This is a full time position, located at our customer EUMETSAT in Darmstadt, Germany, starting in January 2027. Standby / call-out support and provision of support to critical operations, may sometimes be required.

Your Profile

The ideal candidates have an academic degree in IT, Computer Science or equivalent and possess the following skills:

• IBM AIX or GNU/Linux operating system(s);
• Virtualization technologies (VMware, NSX, PowerVC);
• Automation (ansible) and monitoring (CheckMK, Nagios);
• Experience with 24/7 large computing environments and operational best practices;
• Experience administering enterprise hardware platforms (Dell PowerEdge, HPE ProLiant, Cisco UCS, Lenovo ThinkSystem);
• Understanding of network and storage infrastructure.
• Experience with SAN and software-defined storage administration, including zoning, provisioning and performance optimisation.

Proven knowledge and at least 5 years hands-on experience with at least 3 of the following is mandatory:

• IBM AIX administration and troubleshooting;
• Core services management (DNS/LDAP/DHCP/infrastructure);

Proven knowledge and hands-on experience with the following is mandatory:

• Definition, implementation, testing and documentation of end-to-end system changes;
• Preparation of technical documentation in English in a complete and clear manner;
• Communication and interpersonal skills, being able to effectively communicate and coordinate activities within different teams;
• Team mentoring and technical guidance.

Fluency in English (spoken and written) is mandatory, as English is the working language. This is a hybrid position where you will be working up to 3 days/week at home and the rest at EUMETSAT's location in Darmstadt (a city of 160K population, 30km south of Frankfurt am Main) Germany.

The variety of the tasks and the scope of the systems to be supported require a high degree of autonomy and good analytical skills together with the ability to effectively cooperate within the team.