StepStone

ZEISS

Job Description
Step out of your comfort zone, excel and redefine the limits of what is possible. That's just what our employees are doing every single day – in order to set the pace through our innovations and enable outstanding achievements. After all, behind every successful company are many great fascinating people.

In a spacious modern setting full of opportunities for further development, ZEISS employees work in a place where expert knowledge and team spirit reign supreme. All of this is supported by a special ownership structure and the long-term goal of the Carl Zeiss Foundation: to bring science and society into the future together.

Join us today. Inspire people tomorrow.

Diversity is a part of ZEISS. We look forward to receiving your application regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, philosophy of life, disability, age, sexual orientation or identity.

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As an Application Manager you will be working directly across multiple application teams to configure, deploy, test and support in-house written microservices/applications across our global environments. responsibilities will include:

  • Preparing the configuration of microservices using git and YAML for later deployment into global edge-environments

  • Managing the deployment of new or changed versions of microservices into edge-environments

  • Working directly with various technologies (MSSQL/MongoDB/Kafka/Docker) to diagnose issues across your running services

  • Extended diagnostics using existing monitoring/logging tools (Grafana/Loki/Mimir) to find the root cause of issues in your running services

  • Communicating with on-premise support regarding changes to services and providing training on new features when required

  • Creating and maintaining training material and documentation for the services which you are deploying and are the owner

  • Reporting new bugs/issues back to Technical Product Owners/Developers when the problem cannot be solved through extended diagnostics

  • Technical coordination between developers and on-site support for open issues until they are resolved


  • A successfully completed degree in computer science/business informatics or equivalent work experience

  • 2-5 years' experience working with IT infrastructure or server administration (Windows / Linux / Virtualization / networking / Security)

  • Basic knowledge of microservice architecture including Docker/Kubernetes

  • Basic knowledge of CI/CD

  • Familiar with or basic working knowledge of MSSQL/MongoDB/Kafka/Windows/Linux

  • Very good written and spoken English, knowledge of German is an advantage

  • Very good teamwork skills as well as a customer and service-oriented way of thinking and working

  • Bonus: prior experience supporting in-house written application/Microservices

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