Infrastructure Engineer

SES

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In this role, you design, maintain, and improve the virtualized infrastructure using Nutanix while collaborating with various teams on security-critical projects and system optimization.

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Your role in the team

  • Der Infrastructure Engineer wird die virtualisierte Infrastruktur der SES Satelliten entwerfen, betreiben, warten und kontinuierlich verbessern, mit Schwerpunkt auf Nutanix hyperkonvergente Infrastruktur, Virtualisierung, Computing, Storage, Backup, Monitoring und Plattformverfügbarkeit.
  • The role will be part of an infrastructure team responsible for mission-critical environments supporting satellite communications services, enterprise applications, and secure government or NATO-related projects.
  • The position is hands-on and operationally focused, covering infrastructure lifecycle management, system hardening, performance optimization, patching, incident resolution, disaster recovery support, documentation, and vendor coordination.
  • The engineer will work closely with network, cybersecurity, service management, and application teams to ensure secure, resilient, and scalable infrastructure services.
  • Administer, maintain, and optimize Nutanix HCI environments, including cluster health, capacity, lifecycle upgrades, storage, networking, and VM operations.
  • Manage virtualized workloads, templates, snapshots, migrations, provisioning, backup integration, and recovery procedures.
  • Support Windows and Linux server platforms, directory services, authentication, patching, hardening, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
  • Managing Windows-based datacenter infrastructure, with deep knowledge of Microsoft Active Directory and related services (Domain Controllers, DNS, etc).
  • Implement and maintain secure infrastructure configurations aligned with enterprise security policies, NATO or governmental project requirements, and applicable compliance frameworks.
  • Use Infrastructure as Code practices, preferably Terraform or similar tools, to provision, standardize, version-control, and maintain infrastructure resources across virtualized and secure environments.
  • Implement declarative configuration management and automation using Ansible or comparable tools to ensure consistent server, platform, and infrastructure configuration across environments.
  • Deploy, operate, upgrade, and support Kubernetes clusters and related platform services, including worker node lifecycle, storage and networking integration, observability, backup, and security controls.
  • Participate in incident, problem, change, and configuration management processes using structured IT service management practices.
  • Maintain high availability, disaster recovery, capacity planning, infrastructure documentation, operational runbooks, and technical standards.
  • Collaborate with the Network Engineer on routers, switches, firewalls, VLANs, segmentation, connectivity, and infrastructure dependencies.
  • Provide out-of-hours support where required for critical incidents, planned maintenance, or secure mission operations.

Our expectations of you

Education

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, Telecommunications, or equivalent professional experience.

Qualifications

  • Demonstrated capability to collaborate effectively, work as part of a team, share knowledge, and contribute constructively within a small multidisciplinary infrastructure function.
  • Strong documentation, communication, analytical, and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to work effectively in a small multidisciplinary team.
  • Good analytical thinking and problem-solving skills, with attention to details.
  • Strong knowledge of compute, storage, networking fundamentals, backup and recovery, monitoring, automation, and infrastructure security.
  • Relevant certifications are preferred, such as Nutanix NCA/NCP, VMware VCP, Microsoft, Linux, ITIL, or security-focused certifications.
  • Fluency in English, written and spoken, is mandatory for operational communication, documentation, vendor coordination, and work on international or governmental projects.
  • Eligibility and willingness to obtain and maintain NATO, EU, national governmental, or other project-specific security clearance as required.

Experience

  • Minimum 3-5 years of experience in infrastructure engineering, virtualization, systems administration, or data center operations.
  • Hands-on experience with Nutanix AHV, Prism Central, Prism Element, HCI operations, or comparable virtualization platforms such as VMware vSphere.
  • Experience supporting highly available, security-sensitive, or mission-critical environments; satellite communications, telecoms, defense, or government-sector experience is an advantage.

What we offer

  • Willing to work at least 60% onsite from office.

Benefits

Health, fitness & fun

Food & drink

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Topics you will work on

Job locations

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  • Location Betzdorf
    57518 Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

About your employer

As the world's leading provider of digital price tags, the SES-imagotag Group supports leading retailers worldwide in digitizing their processes. 200 retail chains in more than 60 countries trust our 370 specialists for their digital solution expertise.

Company size
1-49 Employees
Language
English
Company type
Established Company
Work model
Onsite, Hybrid, Full Remote
Industry
Internet, IT, Telecommunication

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Infrastructure Engineer

SES