IT Expert Infrastructure Datacenter - fixed term of 1 year

Fresenius Medical Care is a world leader in kidney care. In our Care Enablement segment, we develop and deliver life-sustaining medical products, digital health solutions and therapies. The St. Wendel site, with more than 1,800 employees, is one of Fresenius Medical Care's largest production sites in Germany and makes products for hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. The position is initially limited to 1 year.

• Global responsibility for handheld scanners and mobile devices: defining standards and technical requirements for WLAN, VPN, firewall and applications. Responsibility for rollout, provisioning, replacement and support of the scanners and their continuous development, including SAP EWM interfaces. License, cost and budget responsibility for the area.
• Planning and implementing IT projects according to site-specific and global IT standards.
• Operation and continuous development of the datacenter infrastructure, focusing on VMware ESX/ESXi, storage and backup systems.
• Administration and lifecycle management of virtualization environments, including provisioning and maintenance of virtual servers.
• Administration and monitoring of the backup infrastructure, including backup monitoring, restore tests and compliance with backup policies.
• Monitoring and optimizing performance, availability and capacity of the datacenter infrastructure.
• Carrying out updates, firmware upgrades and security patches for virtualization, storage and backup systems.
• Support for disaster recovery and business continuity.
• Analysis and resolution of infrastructure incidents as well as lasting troubleshooting in the datacenter environment.

• Completed bachelor's degree in computer science, business informatics, information technology or a comparable field, or a comparable IT vocational qualification with several years of relevant professional experience
• Initial professional experience in operating and managing complex IT infrastructures, ideally in a datacenter environment
• Sound knowledge of VMware ESX/ESXi, virtualization, storage and backup
• Experience in the administration and lifecycle management of datacenter infrastructures
• Experience with MDM solutions and mobile devices, ideally handheld scanners
• Good knowledge of network, WLAN, VPN and firewall technologies.
• Experience in patch, update, security and incident management
• Experience in planning and implementing IT projects
• Knowledge of IT security, compliance, disaster recovery and business continuity
• Strong analytical skills as well as experience in troubleshooting and performance optimization
• Very good German and English skills, spoken and written
• Independent, structured and proactive way of working as well as strong communication and teamwork skills
• High sense of responsibility and willingness to take on global areas of responsibility
• Participation in on-call duty to ensure IT infrastructure operations outside regular working hours