Systemadministrator in SAN

System Administrator SAN / Storage (f/m/d)

The Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences is the national center for research into the geosphere. As a member of the Helmholtz Association, we are part of Germany's largest scientific organization. With around 1,500 employees, we develop a sound understanding of systems and processes of the solid Earth as well as strategies and options for action to counter global change and its regional impacts, to understand natural hazards and mitigate associated risks, to secure the growing demand for energy and raw materials for a high-tech society in a sustainable manner and to assess the impact of humans on the Earth system.

The following position is to be filled in Section 5.3 IT Services and IT Operations (Department "Geoinformation"):

System Administrator:in SAN/Storage (f_m_d) Reference number 9128 Your area of responsibility:

• Together with your team, you will be responsible for the configuration, administration, monitoring and management of the SAN infrastructure and all storage systems.
• You will support the administration and further development of the central backup and archive system as well as the hierarchical storage management.
• You support the development of our object storage (S3) into a platform for scientific data, e.g. for seismic data from fiber optic measurements.
• In the storage team, you will contribute to the further development of our storage services by recording and transparently presenting the quality of service achieved, identifying and eliminating capacity and performance bottlenecks and identifying and implementing new technologies in good time.
• You are actively involved in 2nd/3rd level support.
• You coordinate both internal and external collaboration with partners and system suppliers and continuously add to the storage system documentation.
• You advise our scientific users on all storage-related issues, are actively involved in exciting projects and contribute to the planning and further development of the storage infrastructure.

Your qualification profile:

• You have successfully completed your studies in computer science or another STEM subject (at least a Bachelor's degree).
• You have experience in the stable operation of SAN infrastructures, modern storage technology, object storage, distributed file systems and cluster technologies.
• You have practical knowledge of SAN and experience with one or more of the following products/systems or are willing to develop your skills with us: TSM/ISP, Ceph, NetApp FAS/AFF/E-Series, Dell/EMC, IBM
• A basic understanding of modern infrastructure concepts will help you in your work (SDN, SDS, Objectstorage/S3, containers, virtualization etc.)
• You feel confident in dealing with various hardware and also show a strong hands-on mentality in the data center

We offer you:

• A supportive, trusting working atmosphere
• In-house position with minimal to no travel
• Motivated teammates based on a trusting cooperation with your manager
• A structured and thorough induction that will give you a good feeling when you join us
• Flexible working hours and location, on site or in the home office by arrangement
• Attractive additional benefits from the public sector, e.g. subsidized job ticket
• Historic and green campus in the Albert Einstein Science Park with canteen and café
• an appreciative, dynamic and international research environment in one of the industries of the future
• Extensive opportunities for further training
• A company daycare center on the research site
• good accessibility to the nearby Potsdam main station, both on foot and by shuttle bus

Start date:

next possible

Time limit:

unlimited

Remuneration:

If the collective agreement, professional and personal requirements are met, the classification will be in accordance with TVöD Bund (tariff area East) up to pay group 14. In addition, an advance grant of steps above the collective agreement and a monthly temporary specialist allowance may be considered.

Working hours:

Full-time (currently 39 h/week); the position is generally suitable for part-time work.

Place of work:

Potsdam

Have we piqued your interest?

Then we look forward to receiving your detailed application by 14.04.2024. Please only use our online application form.

Diversity and equal opportunities are integral components of our personnel policy. The GFZ is actively committed to diversity and expressly welcomes applications from all qualified individuals, regardless of ethnic and social origin, nationality, gender, sexual orientation and identity, religion/belief, age and physical characteristics. Recognized severely disabled people with equal aptitude and qualifications will be given preferential consideration in accordance with the German Social Security Code IX. If you have any questions, please contact our representative for severely disabled persons at sbv at gfz-potsdam.de, who will be happy to support you in the further application process. If you have any questions about gender equality, you are welcome to contact our Equal Opportunities Officer at gba at gfz-potsdam.de.

Your personal data will be processed to carry out the selection procedure on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 b, Art. 88 GDPR in conjunction with 26 BbgDSG. After completion of the procedure, application documents will be deleted in compliance with data protection regulations.

For more information about the role, please contact Ronny Kopischke either by email or by phone -1704. For general questions about the application process, please contact our recruiting team on -28787.

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