The Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society is a joint project
funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the State
of Berlin. It was founded in Berlin in 2017.
The Weizenbaum Institute (WI) is supported by a research association
from Berlin and Brandenburg, which includes the Freie Universität Berlin,
the Humboldt-Uni-versität zu Berlin, the Technische Universität Berlin,
the Universität der Künste Ber-lin, the Universität Potsdam, the Fraunhofer
Institute for Open Communication Sys-tems (FOKUS) and the Wissenschaftszentrum
Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB). The Weizenbaum-Institut e.V. is responsible
for the coordination of the network and the legal representation of
the WI.
We are looking for the next possible date for an
IT System Administrator (m/f/d)
full-time (currently 39 hours per week). The position is initially
limited until 14 Sep-tember 2025. Subject to funding approval, we will
endeavour to continue employ-ment beyond this date.
The IT team provides all employees of the Weizenbaum Institute with
an efficient and modern IT working environment. In addition to the operation
and continuous development of the existing infrastructure, adequate
support and the coordination of external service providers are also
part of the task portfolio.
Your tasks:
- Together with the team, you will be responsible for supporting
all employees at the institute site in all IT matters and provide
support for all services offe-red by the IT department.
- You administrate the physical and virtualised (kvm, esx) server
infrastruc-ture as well as the relevant operating systems (Linux,
Windows) and manage the networks (VPN, firewall, routing).
- You will also be responsible for analysing and rectifying errors
in first-level support for hardware and software.
- You are responsible for the account and rights management of
an Active Di-rectory domain.
- You will be involved in the further development of the Weizenbaum
Institu-te's IT infrastructure.
- You will also be involved in the design, implementation and
further develop-ment of IT security measures and the migration of
an AD domain to Samba4.
- You will manage and administrate the software management system
for Windows clients (chocolatey) used at the Weizenbaum Institute.
- Last but not least, you will be responsible for maintaining
the user and admin documentation in the in-house wiki.
Your profile:
- A successfully completed university degree in IT (e.g. Bachelor
of Computer Science) and at least three years of relevant professional
experience in an IT context.
- Good knowledge of current client and server operating systems
(Windows and Linux), virtualisation technologies (kvm, esx) and
network technology from layer 0 to 8, including IPv6 as well as
- Good knowledge of managing heterogeneous Active Directory environments
in a hybrid cloud.
- A reliable, service-oriented and independent way of working
as well as good organisational skills.
- Good written and spoken English (at least B2 level). German
language skills are preferable.
- Multidisciplinary team experience and a willingness to work
across depart-ments.
Your chance:
- Exciting tasks: You will have the opportunity to work in a committed,
innova-tive and scientifically orientated environment.
- Optimal framework conditions: Remuneration depending on qualifications
up to TVöD EG 11 including the usual social benefits in the public
sector and the offer of an attractive company pension scheme.
- Achieve more together: We offer you a great team spirit in a
competent and open working environment.
- Work-life balance: Mobile working, flexible working hours and
30 days holi-day a year give you the freedom you need.
- Central location: We work in the centre of Berlin in a dynamic,
internatio-nally networked scientific environment.
- Optimum transport connections: The WI is considered an attractive
location with excellent public transport connections and the option
of a job ticket.
- Modern work equipment: top equipment and innovative tools support
colla-boration.
- Personal development: We facilitate regular professional development.
Further information:
Disabled applicants with equal qualifications will be given preference.
We value diversity and welcome all applications - regardless of gender,
nationality, ethnic or social origin, religion, disability, age and
sexual orientation.
If you have obtained your qualification abroad, we ask you to have the
equivalence of your qualification certified by the ZAB or to send us
an extract from the ANABIN
database, which provides an assessment and information on the evaluation
of for-eign educational certificates, with your application: Link ( https://ana-bin.kmk.org/anabin.html).
You can submit your application, consisting of a letter of motivation,
CV and references, to Thoralf Schulze via our application portal.
Applications can only be considered if they are complete. If you have
any questions, please contact Sabine Zimmermann ( personal@weizenbaum-institut.de).
We look forward to receiving your documents.
To the application portal