Application Support Specialist

**Job Description**: Filling most of our leadership positions internally. And offering tailor-made training programs and opportunities to work on exciting international projects. Both count. Both are us. - Get job alerts - Application Support Specialist - Artifactory Repository (M/F/d) **Company**: Vaillant GmbH **Location**: Remscheid-DEU **Country**: Germany **Brand**: Vaillant Group **What we achieve together**: You will work in the "PLM Team," which combines professional excellence with lived diversity. We bring together a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and specializations in the context of product data. We learn from each other daily and have an interdisciplinary approach. - **Ensure seamless operations**: You will act as the primary liaison between the PLM team, R&D Software Development, and Group IT, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security of our PLM Artifactory repository. - **Collaborate for efficiency**: Together with the PLM Architect and R&D teams, you will optimize processes and storage, ensuring cost-effective artifact management. - **Resolve operational issues**: You will analyze problems and present solutions to the PLM team and Group IT, ensuring smooth operations. - **Maintain and update system**s: You will perform software installations, updates, and tests, staying updated with the latest technologies to recommend improvements. - **Support our users**: You will provide first-level user support, manage licenses and access, troubleshoot issues, and maintain documentation for best practices. **What makes us successful together**: - **Qualification**: You hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. - **Experience**: At least 2 years of professional experience in managing Artifactory or similar artifact repository systems. - **Know-how and Skills**: Strong understanding of software development lifecycle and CI/CD processes, proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python), and Rest API for system integration. - **Nice to Have**: Experience with virtual or cloud platforms like AWS or Azure, and containerization technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes. - **Personality**: Your excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail make you a valuable team player. You thrive in a collaborative team environment. - **Language Skills**: you speak English fluently; German is a plus. **What you can count on**: - **Hybrid Work**: We offer our employees the opportunity to work on a mobile basis. In addition, they can work up to 30 days a year from a country in the European Union. - **Onboarding**: Our clearly structured onboarding process, including an Onboarding App, enables us to integrate new employees into Vaillant Group quickly and in a targeted manner. - **Salary**: We offer an attractive remuneration package in accordance with the NRW IG Metall collective wage agreement, including vacation pay and Christmas bonus, all based on a 35-hour week. - **Health management**: We offer comprehensive preventive health counseling & measures. - **Individual development**: Development programs: Our development programs "GROW, EVOLVE, LEAD and EXCEL" prepare you for the next step in your career. - **Long-term account**: Save up vacation days or parts of your salary and convert them easily into time - for more flexibility in your personal life planning **What makes us special**: We take care of a better climate. In every home and our environment. As a successful family business, we have been living up to this claim for over 150 years. We are one of the world's leading providers of heat pumps, digital services and efficient gas heating appliances and offer energy-saving solutions. You will find sustainability everywhere at the Vaillant Group. In the office, at the production sites and on the road. Around 16,000 employees from over 70 countries are committed to this every day. As an international team, we take responsibility - for our future and that of our planet. We promote your personal development so that you can act with passion and together we can ensure a better climate. Become part of the Vaillant Group and help us shape the future of heating **We promote equity and do not tolerate any form of discrimination. We value the uniqueness of each individual and encourage all people to apply.** **Your Contact**: Svetlina Klose +492191 18 2582