Job
- Level
- Experienced
- Job Field
- IT, DevOps
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Temporary employment
- Location
- Jülich
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will develop and operate AAI/IAM services at national and international levels, including user support and prototyping new features, while working with modern infrastructure technologies.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- As a DevOps Engineer, you will work with IAM services on a national and international level. You will contribute to shaping federated identity management, together with other IAM operators in the European landscape.
- Your key responsibilities include:
- Operating and developing several AAI / IAM services.
- Performing support for user having issues.
- Prototyping extensions of the AAI.
- Attend to user requests (group management and authentication issues).
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Our expectations of you
Education
- Excellent master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or comparable relevant fields.
Qualifications
- We are looking for a colleague who can confidently operate modern infrastructure and understands what it takes to run a highly available AAI / IAM service in production.
- Required / strong fit:
- Programming skills (Java, Python).
- Strong Linux skills (process/network debugging, automation, scripting).
- Nice to have:
- Observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Loki, OpenTelemetry).
- How you work:
- You enjoy structured operations: measurable SLOs, calm incident response.
- You communicate clearly across disciplines and hierarchies in an international context.
- You patiently respond to user requests.
Experience
- Relevant experience in platform operations, Site reliability engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering.
- AAI / IAM experience (e.g., OIDC, SAML, Incident management and response).
- Infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD experience (e.g., Terraform/Ansible, GitOps).
- Experience with (distributed) web service deployment, such as reverse proxies, TLS certificates, load balancing, API endpoints.
- Experience in distributed RDBMS (Galera preferred).
- Experience operating cloud technologies and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes and its ecosystem).
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What we offer
- We work on highly topical, socially relevant issues and offer you the opportunity to actively shape change!
- You can expect a wide range of opportunities:
- Meaningful tasks: A highly relevant mission at the intersection of federated HPC and services.
- Work environment: Interdisciplinary collaboration in an international, dedicated, and collegial team.
- Work-life balance: Optimal conditions for balancing work and private life, as well as a family-friendly company policy.
- The option of flexible working (in terms of location) is generally available after consultation and in line with upcoming tasks and (on-site) appointments.
- Vacation: You will receive 30 days of vacation plus additional days off (e.g., between Christmas and New Year's).
- Flexibility: Flexible working time models, including options close to full-time, allow you to tailor your working hours to suit your individual needs.
- Knowledge & further training: Your professional development is important to us - we provide targeted, individual support.
- Campus experience: Our research campus in the countryside creates ideal conditions for collegial exchange and sporting activities right on site.
- Our cafeteria offers a wide range of options—you can enjoy a relaxing lunch break with a lake view.
- Fair remuneration: Depending on your existing qualifications and the tasks assigned to you, you will be classified in pay grade 13 of the TVöD-Bund (Collective Agreement for the Public Service).
- All information on the TVöD-Bund collective agreement can be found on the BMI website.
- The monthly salaries in euros can be found on page 69 ff. of the PDF download.
- Additional benefits: Benefit from attractive additional services such as a company pension scheme with employer contribution.
- In addition to the basic salary, there is an additional year-end bonus under the collective pay agreement amounting to 75% of a monthly salary, as well as capital-forming benefits.
- Fixed-term: The position is limited to 2 years, with the possibility of a longer-term employment.
- Support for international employees: Our International Advisory Service makes it easier for international employees to get started.
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Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Forschungszentrum Jülich is a member of the Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft, making it an effective contributor to solving big challenges our society faces in the realms of information technology, energy, and bioeconomics.
Description
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Education System, Science, Research
DevOps Engineer Identity and Access Management
- Location
- Jülich
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
