HiWi Position for System Administration at the AET IT-Group🚀

Job summary

Develop and maintain Artemis and its supporting systems, including monitoring and improving the build infrastructure and purpose-built systems. Support students and staff with infrastructure issues, participate in team meetings, report progress, and undertake self-directed projects to improve services and processes.

Job details

Apply until 2025-09-21! HiWi Position for System Administration at the AET IT-Group About Us Welcome to the IT-Group (ITG) at the Research Group for Applied Education Technologies! Our team consists of dedicated student administrators, and our mission is to support and maintain Artemis and its associated systems, including monitoring and maintaining test systems, and the programming exercise build system. Additionally, we manage a variety of services such as Confluence, Jira, Keycloak SSO, security infrastructures like Vault and Bitwarden, and numerous smaller services. We are proud of our self-operated Hypervisor cluster based on Proxmox, which currently includes 13 physical servers (700+ CPU cores and 3.5TB+ RAM). We maintain multiple GPU servers as the computational backbone for teaching and research initiatives involving large language models (LLMs). Used technologies include cutting-edge tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, and Terraform. The ITG team enjoys the freedom to implement their own projects and continuously optimize processes, services, and infrastructure. We prioritize creating an excellent working and learning environment. Your Primary Responsibilities As a member of the team, you engage in diverse tasks, with your main responsibilities centering on the development and maintenance of Artemis and its supporting systems. Your tasks will include Work with Atlassian services, Artemis, Ansible, Git, Gitlab, Linux, VMs, Docker, and Kubernetes Participate in weekly team and work meetings Report your progress regularly Monitor, maintain, and improve the Artemis build infrastructure Maintain and improve purpose-built systems like Helios Self organized project work (e.g., evaluating solutions, improving existing systems, or optimizing processes) Support students and staff with infrastructure-related issues What we offer Engaging and varied IT tasks Opportunities to work with new hardware and software A platform to contribute your ideas A supportive, casual working and learning environment within a student team Flexible working hours Access to an office at the chair Long-term employment (2 years+ / 8+ hours per week) Money Pool Server Room Experience and profile We are looking for candidates who Are eager to acquire new knowledge and skills Are willing to take on responsibilities Are reliable and self-organized Are fluent in German and English Have excellent communication skills Are interested in a long-term HiWi job (at least 4 semesters) Additionally, you should have a solid foundation in Git and Git workflows Command Line Interfaces Docker Linux Basic networking concepts (DNS/DHCP/IPv4/IPv6) Nice to haves Experience with Ansible, Terraform, virtualization, and networking 25+ years of experience with Kubernetes !!11! (Kidding ;)) Application Does this sound like an exciting opportunity for you? If so, we would love to hear from you! Please Send Us The Following A short letter of motivation An up-to-date CV [Optional] Projects you have worked on and would like to share with us (e.g., GitHub, GitLab, or other links) Submit your application to "> Join ITG and become part of an innovative team that is pushing the boundaries of applied educational technologies!

What you’ll do

Develop and maintain Artemis and its supporting systems, including monitoring and improving the build infrastructure and purpose-built systems. Support students and staff with infrastructure issues, participate in team meetings, report progress, and undertake self-directed projects to improve services and processes.

Requirements

Candidates should be reliable, self-organized, eager to learn, willing to take responsibility, fluent in German and English, and have strong communication skills. A solid foundation in Git and Git workflows, command-line interfaces, Docker, Linux, and basic networking is expected; experience with Ansible, Terraform, virtualization, and networking is an advantage.

Benefits

• Flexible Working Hours
• Long-Term Employment
• Access to an Office
• Supportive Working Environment
• Opportunities to Work with New Hardware and Software

Listed skills

• Kubernetes · Preferred
• DHCP · Preferred
• Docker · Preferred
• DNS · Preferred
• Communication · Preferred
• Linux · Preferred
• Terraform · Preferred
• Git · Preferred

Other relevant skills

Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.

• Git
• Git Workflows
• Command-Line Interfaces
• Docker
• Linux
• Networking
• DNS
• DHCP
• IPv4
• IPv6
• Ansible
• Terraform
• Virtualization
• Kubernetes
• Communication
• Self-Organization

Job areas

• Technology
• Software
• Education