About the role
The German Pension Insurance Federation is Germany's largest pension insurance provider and a cornerstone of social security in Germany. We accompany people throughout their lives—from the start of their careers to retirement. 24.2 million insured people, 10.8 million pensioners, and 3.5 million employers rely on us. DRV Bund IT is the service provider for the German Pension Insurance Federation and develops and operates a complex IT system landscape in close consultation with customers. The Container Technology division provides and operates stable, reliable, and highly available container platforms (OpenShift, Rancher) for specialist applications in accordance with agreed service levels.
Tasks
•Coordinate with platform customers to implement requirements and support developer teams
•Operate production OpenShift environments, including on-call duty
•Maintain and further develop an OpenShift landscape
•Design and implement new functions within the OpenShift infrastructure
•Analyze production errors
•Carry out monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana
•Perform general system administration under Linux
•Use established tools such as ArgoCD, Helm, Vault, Quay, Artifactory, Bitbucket, Jira, and Confluence
Requirements
•Successfully completed higher education (Bachelor's degree or Diplom FH) in IT or an equivalent qualification (for example, an IT-specific qualification), or completed vocational training in IT, or at least 3 years of comparable practical experience in IT
•At least 3 years of relevant professional experience in IT, in the field of container technology and DevOps
•Sound knowledge of administering Kubernetes environments (e.g. OpenShift, Rancher)
•Practical experience using automation tools such as Ansible and ArgoCD
•Initial practical experience with secret management using HashiCorp Vault
•Very good spoken and written German
•A team-oriented approach, decision-making skills and strong communication skills, as well as the ability to proactively contribute optimizations
Conditions
•An interesting and varied role with all the advantages of a large public-sector employer
•Many individual working-time models for every stage of life and support for balancing work and private life
•Professional and competency-oriented training and development opportunities
•Access to various networks: WoW – Women's empowerment – women's network; Väter@DRV Bund; Rainbow and Sustainability Network
•Numerous benefits such as a job ticket, Corporate Benefits, and discounts at fitness studios
•Support for workplace health management integrated into everyday work
