Senior Systems Engineer (m/f/d)

Want to work in a culture built on mutual trust and respect? How about having the freedom to make work fit into your life (and not the other way round)?

A career with Thinkproject could be just the opportunity you're looking for.

What do we do?

Thinkproject is a European market-leader in digitalisation tools for construction companies. It sounds complex, but we'll explain further! Construction companies used to use manual administration and physical paperwork for projects (sometimes hundreds of thousands of bits of paperwork for one project!).

Using our construction intelligence solutions, businesses can go digital, which benefits everyone from the construction companies to the wider public.

Our mission is to deliver digitalisation to make a safer, healthier and more sustainable AECO (Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Operations) industry.

This is a really exciting time to join our company, since our founding in 2000 we have gone from strength-to-strength and have lots of exciting developments coming up soon that you could be a part of.

What your day will look like

• You will be responsible for the engineering, deployment and operation of technology solutions for our customer platform in multiple data centers in public clouds and co-locations.
• Take on the role to mentor junior and system engineers.
• You contribute significantly to the continuous optimisation of applications and infrastructures in public cloud and co-locations.
• You take responsibility for the success and execution of technical projects, including risk management and reporting
• Proactively ensure the highest availability of systems and infrastructures
• You will perform routine maintenance on the infrastructure of our SaaS solutions, including software releases, patching and vulnerability scanning processes.
• You will be one of the main technical point of contact for customers on project concerns or issues and ensure clear communication and timely resolution of issues.
• Actively support the organisation in the transition to new technologies.
• Design and implement automatisation to enhance efficiency and reduce manual intervention.
• Working with our IT security and compliance team to improve IT security and maintain the company's ISO 27001 certification and BSI C5.
• Involved in planning and actively participate in an on-call and platform service, troubleshooting and resolving and handling escalations to other technical teams, senior management or account managers
• Produce accurate and detailed documentation of infrastructure configurations, processes and procedures.
• Develop and enforce operating procedures, including disaster recovery plans and actively participate in DR exercises

What you need to fulfill the role

• Well-founded qualification as an IT specialist (System integration) or a comparable qualification
• More than 5 years of practical experience in IT systems engineer role, preferably in a technical role of client-oriented platforms
• Willing to take responsibility for the team's success in the future
• You have advanced experience with Linux (Debian, Ubuntu etc.)
• Strong expertise in automation software and scripting (e.g. Ansible, Terraform)
• Experience in building and operating cloud infrastructures and applications on Azure are welcome.
• Willing to participate in an on-call service for our highly available IT infrastructure structure (scheduled rotation inside the team)
• Experience in Kubernetes or Docker are welcome
• You have good language skills in the German and English language

What we offer

Lunch 'n' Learn Sessions I Women's Network I LGBTQIA+ Network I Coffee Chat Roulette I Free English Lessons I Thinkproject Academy I Social Events I Volunteering Activities I Open Forum with Leadership Team (Tp Café) I Hybrid working I Unlimited learning

We are a passionate bunch here. To join Thinkproject is to shape what our company becomes. We take feedback from our staff very seriously and give them the tools they need to help us create our fantastic culture of mutual respect.

We believe that investing in our staff is crucial to the success of our business.