Senior Systems Engineer - Business Applications

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹2nd level support for LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) platforms and applications in the company's own cloud
• ▹Contribute to the automated provisioning of platform components through CI/CD
• ▹Create, test and implement container builds
• ▹Handle incidents according to BWI specifications (incident intake, fault analysis, fault resolution)
• ▹Identify risks and secure against and resolve security risks
• ▹Contribute to the development of training concepts
• ▹Maintain and further develop the technical documentation

Requirements

• ▹Experience with one or more of the following technologies: web servers (Apache, NGINX), Linux operating systems (e.g. CentOS, SuSE, RHEL, Debian), databases (e.g. MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL), LAMP-based applications
• ▹Good knowledge of Kubernetes and cloud-native concepts
• ▹Knowledge of application deployments as code via Helm charts, kustomize and k8s operators
• ▹Experience with automation tools (e.g. GitLab-CI, Terraform, Crossplane, Ansible, ArgoCD and FluxCD)
• ▹Experience with container builds (e.g. Docker, Buildah) and artifact management (Nexus, Harbor)
• ▹Familiarity with monitoring, logging and alerting stacks (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Instana)
• ▹Experience with scaling and resource optimisation in container-based environments, as well as Git/GitOps
• ▹Basic understanding of TCP networks such as firewalling, network structure and security
• ▹Experience with CMDB/asset management systems
• ▹Basic ITIL knowledge (change/incident/problem management)
• ▹Fluent German and good English

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Salary between EUR 57,800 and EUR 84,680, the actual amount depending on responsibilities, experience and competencies
• ▹Secure job and an award-winning, employer-financed company pension scheme
• ▹30 days of annual leave with the option of individual adjustment
• ▹Benefit app with a monthly credit and tax savings on public transport tickets
• ▹Flexibility through mobile working or trust-based working hours and a long-term time-value account, e.g. for a sabbatical
• ▹Individual training support and free access to LinkedIn Learning
• ▹Option to lease a Jobrad and access to employee discount platforms

About the company

BWI is the primary digitalisation partner of the Bundeswehr, providing stable, secure and efficient IT services at home and abroad. With more than 8,000 employees it operates and modernises one of the largest and most complex IT infrastructures in Germany.