StepStone

Job Description

DE-CIX (German Commercial Internet Exchange) is the world's leading Internet Exchange operator and since its inception it has had a decisive influence on shaping the guiding principles of the present and future Internet in various leading global bodies. At our locations in Europe, Africa, North America, the Middle East, and Asia, we work at the heart of the Internet. For almost 30 years, our interconnection services have contributed to the creation of new digital ecosystems worldwide and have prepared people, businesses, and organizations for the coming decades of digital evolution. The DE-CIX Internet Exchange in Frankfurt (Germany) is one of the largest in the world.

We are now looking for a committed person for Frankfurt am Main

Systems Operations Engineer (w/m/d)


  • Ensuring stable and reliable IT services
  • Day-to-day network performance monitoring as well as improving our measurement methodologies
  • Troubleshooting and fault analysis; hardware troubleshooting and repair
  • Design and Deployment of services either on premise or cloud based
  • Improve the constantly ongoing automation of our platform
  • What also awaits you is:
    • an appreciative corporate culture and trustful teamwork with like-minded network specialists,
    • as well as great working conditions (extensive personnel development measures,
    • an occupational pension scheme, weekly language courses, a German ticket, health promotion, and lots more)
    • exciting and diverse challenges in an innovative and international environment, within the framework
    • of a crisis-resistant permanent contract with the world's market leader in its sector
    • extremely friendly and supportive colleagues

  • Basic networking skills (Ethernet, IP, Routing) and excellent Linux/UNIX skills as well as experience in operating IT infrastructure services (DNS, Mail, LDAP, PKI)
  • Ability to automate your work by using scripting or programming languages (e.g. bash, perl, python) and sound understanding of how to automate IT environments (Ansible, Salt)
  • Good knowledge in managing cloud hosted environments (Azure) and knowledge in monitoring tools (Zabbix) a long with being able to analyse problems and conduct effective fault diagnosis and system recovery
  • A reliable, structured and independent way of working including a clear communication (written and verbal), in German and in English
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