DevOps Engineer for Identity and Access Management

Are you excited about building robust and secure federations, monitoring and improving, and collaborating across teams to drive continuous innovation? Then you’ve come to the right place! At the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), we operate some of Europe’s most powerful computing systems and provide them to science and engineering communities in Germany and across Europe. We’re looking for a passionate DevOps Engineer in Identity and Access Management who is not only a problem solver but a catalyst for change and evolution. We envision a candidate who loves scripting, orchestration using distributed cloud services and can integrate seamlessly into our dynamic and collaborative work environment. Join us on a mission to operate Helmholtz ID and provide a compelling user experience. We have created the Helmholtz ID service in 2018, in order to provide the Helmholtz Association with a central identity and access management service. It has been steadily growing in usage. We are working on scaling Helmholtz ID to attend thousands of simultaneous users.

• Vertragsart: Vollzeit

Angebot

We work on highly topical, socially relevant issues and offer you the opportunity to actively shape change! You can expect a wide range of opportunities:

• Meaningful tasks: A highly relevant mission at the intersection of federated HPC and services
• Work environment: Interdisciplinary collaboration in an international, dedicated, and collegial team
• Work-life balance: Optimal conditions for balancing work and private life, as well as a family-friendly company policy. The option of flexible working (in terms of location) is generally available after consultation and in line with upcoming tasks and (on-site) appointments
• Vacation: You will receive 30 days of vacation plus additional days off (e.g. between Christmas and New Year’s)
• Flexibility: Flexible working time models, including options close to full-time, allow you to tailor your working hours to suit your individual needs
• Knowledge & further training: Your professional development is important to us – we provide targeted, individual support
• Campus experience: Our research campus in the countryside creates ideal conditions for collegial exchange and sporting activities right on site. Our cafeteria offers a wide range of options—you can enjoy a relaxing lunch break with a lake view
• Fair remuneration: Depending on your existing qualifications and the tasks assigned to you, you will be classified in pay grade 13 of the TVöD-Bund (Collective Agreement for the Public Service). All information on the TVöD-Bund collective agreement can be found on the BMI website. The monthly salaries in euros can be found on page 69 ff. of the PDF download
• Additional benefits: Benefit from attractive additional services such as a company pension scheme with employer contribution. In addition to the basic salary, there is an additional year-end bonus under the collective pay agreement amounting to 75% of a monthly salary, as well as capital-forming benefits
• Fixed-term: The position is limited to 2 years, with the possibilty of a longer-term employment
• Support for international employees: Our International Advisory Service makes it easier for international employees to get started In addition to exciting tasks and a collegial working environment, we offer you much more: https://go.fzj.de/benefits

Aufgaben

As a DevOps Engineer, you will work with IAM services on national and international level. You are going to contribute to the shaping of federated identity management, together with other IAM operators in the European landscape. Your key responsibilities include:

• Operating and developing several AAI / IAM services
• Performing support for user having issues
• Prototyping ex