Infrastructure engineer Jobs in Kriftel

What is special about Lighthouse?

Lighthouse is built on a foundation of unique, compassionate, highly driven individuals. We elevate the strengths and talents of those around us while leveraging opportunities for growth. We offer the experience of solving complex problems while continuing to grow multiple facets of your career. Lighthouse is where innovation meets support and where collaboration is the key ingredient to success. We grow together and are stronger together.

What’s unique about this role?

The system engineer role is responsible for complete management of the hardware, operating system, and application services of Lighthouse Global Datacenter and Office Services infrastructure. This role supports maximizing server availability, hardware and operating system configuration, performance reporting and tuning, capacity management, problem resolution (both in person and remotely), local office IT support, and testing. This includes solution formulation, implementation, documentation, and follow-up. The system engineer role requires attention to detail and 24×7 support availability by participating in an on-call rotation schedule.

What will this person do?

• Manages and maintains global data center system’s hardware (primary focus in Germany region) and operating system configurations.
• Maintains lighthouse global compliance standards by performing patching, and vulnerability remediation.
• Provides system engineering tasks on Servers, SAN / NAS and Networking devices.
• Manages and maintains core system applications : messaging, virtualization, business continuity, and data protection.
• Provides problem troubleshooting, resolution and acts as a subject matter expert to the business on a defined area (Windows / Linux OS, data center infrastructure etc.)
• Provides system and user administration in Frankfurt office (desktops, printers, wifi etc.), process system access requests, and provide system utilization dashboards.
• Understands and actively participates in Environmental, Health & Safety responsibilities by following established SOP policy, procedures, training, and team member involvement activities.
• Provide technical support to review, analyze, responses and escalate (as needed) to incidents.
• Collaborate with Lighthouse Application, Networking, Storage and Infosec teams.
• Participate in working groups to identify innovative approaches to leverage technology in support of repeatable workflows.
• Support security assessments and other activities to obtain and maintain authorization to operate.
• Maintain secure configurations in accordance with security and regulatory compliance (ISO / IEC 27001, PCI DSS, etc.) in a Hybrid Infrastructure Environment (Cloud and On-Premises).
• Communicate with colleagues, management, customers, vendors and others in a courteous, professional manner.
• Execute infrastructure lifecycle activities (from initial setup to decommission tasks, including data migrations as warranted).
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Very good knowledge of IT infrastructure (servers, network and storage)
• Good understanding of Active Directory, DFS, DNS, DHCP, GPO, IPAM
• Good understanding of virtualization platforms, VMWare, Horizon View and Hyper-V.
• Very good understanding of scripting languages, such as PowerShell, Perl, or Python.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft 365 and Azure.
• Ability to work independently with high level of initiative and excellent troubleshooting skills, while maintaining and fostering collaboration across the team and enterprise stakeholders.
• Strong skills analyzing and resolving outages and incidents.
• Exceptional communication skills with internal and external clients prior and during maintenance activities.
• Knowledge of SSL Certificate generation and deployment is a plus.
• Understands and actively participates in Environmental, Health & Safety responsibilities by following established SOP policy, procedures, training, and team member involvement activities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

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Work Environment and Physical Demands

Lighthouse celebrates and thrives on diversity and is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We hire, train, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. We welcome any talents and contributions you can bring to the team and are deeply committed to growing an environment where everyone can feel safe, is respected, and can show up as themselves. Come as you are!

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