Staff System Administrator

Job Description

Working closely with the Global ServiceNow Team, they will help deliver seamless operational support to German customers. They ensure a stable, secure, and scalable infrastructure aligned with evolving business needs.

What you get to do in this role:

• They provide relief and sustainable resolution to issues within our infrastructure
• Develop tools in Python, bash, and/or JavaScript to replace manual work and improve customer maintenance experience.
• Drive enhancements and bugfixes for large scale automation projects such as patching, provisioning, and kickstart domains.
• Design and implement procedure to accomplish maintenances where automation and tooling cannot drive resolution of root causes with internal team members.
• Prepare new ServiceNow products and services for production readiness with design review, feedback to engineering teams, training, and testing.
• Use broad knowledge and experience of systems administration and networking principles to proactively prevent and address incidents while constantly improving documentation.
• Participate in escalations and Root Cause Analysis of issues.
• Troubleshoot database backup and restore failures as well as perform database migrations.
• Support operation of a wide variety of infrastructure services including Machine Learning and Prediction, Cloudera Big Data clusters, Kafka and RabbitMQ messaging, database encryption, E-Mail infrastructure at scale, DNS, Puppet, Elasticsearch, F5 BigIP, and mo

Qualifications

To be successful in this role you have:

• 6+ years’ experience building and maintaining Linux-based systems
• Substantial experience working on systems which deal with one (or more) Relational Database technologies: MariaDB,  Oracle or PostgreSQL.
• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
• Investigate and discover on your own, being self-driven and accountable.
• Strong experience with database/system performance analysis, capacity sizing and optimization
• An in-depth understanding of the technology associated with operating a service or platform in the public or private cloud, including data centers, systems, networks, web applications, and relational databases.
• Strong background in systems architecture and/ or engineering, an understanding of the components of software infrastructure, including hardware platforms, OS, virtualization, application, database, web and application servers. Prior experience in software development/engineering, release management/develops and managing large-scale server infrastructure is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with networking and storage concepts such as routing, IP networking, DNS, load-balancers, block and file storage, etc.
• Is comfortable designing, authoring, testing, and debugging code in a popular systems languages: Bash,  Python, Ruby, Perl.
• Solid understanding of database replication/high availability, storage engines, system performance and benchmarking, performance analysis and capacity management
• Familiarity with virtualization and cloud infrastructure technologies.
• Candidate must have excellent communication skills and work well in a collaborative team environment.
• Fluent in German and English (written and verbal).
• Ability to work on-calls if required .
• Ability to travel to our customer site in Germany.

Due to the nature of the role and regulatory requirements for this role, only candidates who are German or EU citizens can be considered.