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Senior System Administrator (m/f/d) | Munich, Germany

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Arbeitsbeschreibung - Senior System Administrator (m/f/d) | Munich, Germany

Tasks and Responsibilities:

The Spaceopal Senior System Administrator is responsible for designing, maintaining, securing, and optimizing an organization’s IT infrastructure to ensure high availability, performance, reliability, security of servers, network, cloud services and enterprise systems while providing technical leadership and support to IT operations. 
 
This role includes leading and administering infrastructure projects, automating operational processes, troubleshooting complex technical issues, and providing advanced technical support to company employees to resolve hardware, software, network, and system-related problems efficiently. 
 
The Senior System Administrator also collaborates with cross-functional teams, ensures compliance with IT security standards, and mentors junior IT staff by sharing technical knowledge and best practices.
 
 
Key Responsibilities  
  • Administer servers, storage systems, and network infrastructure.
  • Deploy, configure, and maintain servers, network devices, and firewalls. Ensure optimal performance.
  • Monitor infrastructure health and application performance. Analyze logs, troubleshoot outages, and improve reliability.
  • Manage on-premises or hybrid environments.
  • Maintain virtualization platforms such as VMware - vSphere, Hyper-V, or Proxmox VE.
  • Manage Linux and Windows environments such as Ubuntu Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Windows Server.
  • Provide troubleshooting assistance and help with diagnosing technical issues within the system.
  • Ensure compliance with security policies and standards.
  • Create and maintain comprehensive system architecture, configuration diagrams, and standard operating procedures.
  • Develop, test, and maintain robust backup, recovery, and contingency plans to guarantee data integrity.

Required Qualification and Experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
  • 7+ years of experience in system administration and IT infrastructure management
  • 5 - 7 years of experience leading projects and supporting highly secure IT infrastructure environments
  • Exceptional analytical thinking, problem-solving under pressure, project management capabilities, and strong verbal communication
  • Experience managing Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Exchange Offline and identity services.
  • Strong understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VPNs, routing, and switching. 
  • Knowledge of backup solutions (e.g., Veeam). 
  • Familiarity with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Experience with modern databases (especially timeseries e.g. InfluxdB)
  • Ability to work both independently and collaboratively
  • High attention to detail and strong security awareness

Work location:

Spaceopal headquarter (Munich, Germany).
It could be necessary to participate to meetings at European locations.

Benefits:

  • 30 days annual leave 
  • Work-life-balance, e.g., through flexible working time models and mobile office options (if job function applicable for mobile work)
  • Employer supported: pension scheme, job ticket and EGYM Wellpass
  • Employer supported canteen, free coffee & fruit service
  • Centrally located office 
  • Personal development and training options
  • Regular company and team events
  • International working environment, dynamic, multicultural and motivated teams

Full-time

40h/week

About us

Spaceopal is the prime service operations contractor for the European Galileo Satellite Navigation System and manages all Galileo Service Operations. The awarded European Commission (EC) contract to Spaceopal is more than just its satellites in space. Galileo Service Operations will provide high-quality positioning, navigation and timing services to users across the whole world as a civil-controlled service with guaranteed continuity of coverage.

Do you want to get involved with us? Do you want to be a part of our interdisciplinary international teams — be part of the Galileo Family? Does your specialist area match our subjects?

If you are convinced that you are right for us, take a look at all our vacancies — or send in a speculative application! Browse through our open positions. We look forward to receiving completed applications for our job postings here.

Be part of a multinational team of high professionals in a dynamic working environment. Be part of one of Europa’s largest and most complex technology projects.

Be part of the Galileo Family!
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Spaceopal is the prime service operations contractor for the European Galileo Satellite Navigation System and manages all Galileo Service Operations. The awarded European Commission (EC) contract to Spaceopal is more than just its satellites in space. Galileo Service Operations will provide high-qua...

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