DevOps Science Engineer for the construction of data centres at observatories

For our location in Zeuthen we are seeking:

DevOps Science Engineer for the construction of data centres at observatories

DESY, with more than 3000 employees at its two locations in Hamburg and Zeuthen, is one of the world's leading research centres. Its research focuses on decoding the structure and function of matter, from the smallest particles of the universe to the building blocks of life. In this way, DESY contributes to solving the major questions and urgent challenges facing science, society and industry. With its ultramodern research infrastructure, its interdisciplinary research platforms and its international networks, DESY offers a highly attractive working environment in the fields of science, technology and administration as well as for the education of highly qualified young scientists.

A new onsite data centre is being set up for the CTAO (Cherenkov Telscope Array Observatory) astroparticle observatory at two locations in La Palma and Chile.

The data centre at DESY, Zeuthen with 15,000 TB storage, 10,000 cores, 120 GPUs and more than 1,000 servers will take on this task with your support and will also operate these data centres remotely with local support after the construction phase.

Be part of creating completely new data centres and enabling science to take a step forward.

About your role:

Data and software engineering for the adaptation, project planning and implementation of the required software
Recording the requirements of the experiment
Evaluation of different alternatives and presentation of the results to the experiments
Automated configuration and disaster recovery of both the base installation and the application data
Support for developers in integrating the developed software into a standardized release and deployment process
Support of developers in the definition of monitoring points in the developed software
Operate applications that support software development
Planning, implementation and maintenance of the CTA onsite data centres
Installation from scratch of a complete data centre with among other things, distributed storage, batch computing
Monitoring and alerting systems
Automation of the necessary software from the operating system to infrastructure services and monitoring
Roll-out and monitoring of operating system updates

Good reasons to join:

Look forward to a unique working environment on our international research campus. Respectful cooperation and the well-being of our DESY employees are particularly important to us. Gender equality is an important aspect for us. To support work life balance we offer flexible working hours, variable part-time, job-sharing models and participation in mobile work (up to 50%). You will benefit from our family-friendly and collegial atmosphere, our established health management and occupational pension provision. As a public funded employer, we offer you a secure workplace and facilitate your individual career with our comprehensive training and development opportunities. Remuneration is according to the regulations of the TV-AVH. DESY offers its employees a financial supplement for a German job ticket (Deutschland-Ticket) at both locations.

What else we offer:

International research campus makes it possible to think outside the box
Basic, materials and applied research broaden your own horizons
Collaboration with exceptional colleagues and scientists
Own accelerator

Unbefristet

About you:

University degree in computer science, information technology or mathematics or equivalent expertise, skills and experience
Unix admin and scripting skills - ideal for Redhat based systems
Programmer, basic knowledge preferably Python
Experience in container technologies, building containers, operation of applications in containers, kubernetes, docker, dockercompose, helm
Knowledge of configuration management tools (ansible,puppet,chef,salt), preferably Ansible
Experience in monitoring of Linux systems prefers Prometheus
Specialist knowledge and experience with CI/CD Tools, prefers Gitlab CI and Jenkins
Very good knowledge of English and good knowledge of German
Knowledge of Harbor, Nexus Repository, Gitlab is helpful

For further information please contact Kai Leffhalm at 033762-7-7159 (kai.leffhalm@desy.de).

Please submit your complete application documents (letter of motivation, CV and relevant certificates).

We look forward to receiving your application via our application portal:

Apply now

DESY promotes equal opportunities and diversity. The professional development of women is very important to us and therefore we strongly encourage women to apply for the vacant position. Applications from severely disabled persons will be given preference if they are equally qualified (sbv.desy.de).

You can find further information here:
https://www.desy.de/career/

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
Personalabteilung
Notkestraße 85
22607 Hamburg
Phone: +49 40 8998-3392

Deadline for applications: 31.12.2025