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In this role, you will manage centralized datacenters, oversee hardware systems, execute capacity planning, and optimize monitoring processes and infrastructures for server and storage solutions.
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Your role in the team
- Together in a team at ZIM, you share responsibility for the management and operation of the university's central data centers at Duisburg-Essen.
- They manage the lifecycle of the central hardware systems for servers and storage. This includes setup and connection, operation, configuration, troubleshooting, and support.
- They manage the data centers within the scope of Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM). This includes maintaining the necessary IT systems (CMDB, monitoring) as well as the data and inventorying the hardware.
- You maintain contact with service providers and commission them.
- As part of server housing, you conduct capacity planning, coordinate user requests, and manage customer hardware.
Our expectations of you
Education
- You have completed training as an IT specialist or IT systems electronics technician or a comparable qualification.
Qualifications
- Solid knowledge of server and storage systems, operation of monitoring systems, operating systems (Windows, Linux), and system management systems.
- Knowledge of DCIM and IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL).
- Knowledge of operating virtual environments is an advantage.
- Very good German and good English language skills.
- Class B driver's license.
- Physical resilience, manual skills, and organizational abilities.
- Willingness to continuously update one's skills and independently familiarize oneself with new technologies.
- Willingness to communicate, sense of responsibility, initiative, ability to work in a team, and a strong service orientation.
Experience
- Proven several years of operational experience in server and storage system administration.
- Experience in inventory management or IT logistics and warehouse management.
What we offer
- A secure and permanent employment in a diverse and versatile field of work, along with a lively work environment in a research-intensive setting.
- A work environment characterized by respectful and appreciative interaction.
- Flexible working hours and the possibility of working from home.
- Family friendliness through childcare services for your children.
- Consultation for family caregiving tasks.
- A comprehensive training and development program, with individualized onboarding.
- Excellent public transportation connections and free parking.
- Attractive sports and health programs (university sports).
Benefits
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About your employer
We are one of the youngest universities in Germany and we believe in limitless potential instead of possible limitations. With our 11 faculties, we develop ideas with a future at the heart of the Ruhr metropolis.
- 250+ Employees
- Established Company
- Onsite, Hybrid
- Education System
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