System Administrator Storage & BackUp (f/m/d)

50Hertz Transmission GmbH, a company within the European Elia Group, is expanding its IT backbone with a System Administrator Storage & BackUp (f/m/d) based in Berlin, with Neuenhagen as part of the workplace footprint. The role is full-time, onsite, and fixed-term for two years. It’s a solid fit for someone who wants to shape reliable storage and data-protection environments that keep critical infrastructure running smoothly.

The company is active in the energy transmission space and emphasizes integrating renewable energy with a robust IT backbone. You’ll join an international IT infrastructure team that values knowledge sharing and practical contributions to technology choices. If you enjoy building dependable storage and backup functionality and speaking both German and English, you could be a strong match for this position.

What you’ll do day to day

In this role you’ll design, standardize and advance storage, backup and data-protection platforms, setting target architectures, technology roadmaps and security and compliance standards. You’ll plan migrations, consolidations and lifecycle initiatives, while evaluating new technologies and advising internal teams on storage and backup options. You’ll develop automation and IaC solutions for the infrastructure using Ansible, Python, PowerShell and REST APIs, and you’ll automate provisioning, backups, restores, replication and compliance processes. Ensuring high availability, scalability, disaster recovery and business continuity is central, with clear RPO and RTO concepts guiding your work. You’ll handle critical incidents and perform complex fault analysis in the 3rd-level support, and you’ll participate in the on-call rotation that runs 24/7.

What you’ll need to bring and what’s a plus

• A completed degree in computer science or a closely related field, or an equivalent vocational qualification.
• Several years of experience designing, operating and advancing enterprise storage and backup infrastructures.
• Strong know-how of NetApp ONTAP along with a broad range of enterprise storage technologies and high-availability solutions (including MetroCluster, HA, NearStore, Snapshot, SnapMirror, replication plus SAN/NAS, Fibre Channel, NFS, SMB, and iSCSI).
• Extensive expertise in backup, recovery, data protection, business continuity and disaster recovery.
• Deep understanding of modern DevOps, GitOps and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts, with hands-on experience using Ansible, Python, PowerShell and REST APIs.
• Good grasp of security, compliance and governance requirements.
• A self-driven, proactive work style and the ability to operate independently.
• Languages: German (C1) and English (mind. B2).

• Nice to have: experience with vendor, license and contract management.

Pay, benefits and practical details

The position is based onsite in Berlin (with Neuenhagen as listed location), working 37 hours per week under a fixed-term two-year contract. The company supports flexible working arrangements within a long-term time account, and there are no core hours. You’ll have the option for mobile work, including from home, and you’ll share in a schedule that supports work-life balance with generous flexibility and a large pool of flex days.

Beyond time and scheduling flexibility, the role offers personal growth through defined training opportunities and a range of benefits. In Berlin there’s a company restaurant with freshly prepared meals, a company kindergarten and a parent & child office to help with short-term care needs, and a modern working environment in the city centre directly at the main station. The company also notes 30 days of holiday and ongoing opportunities for professional development. For more details, you can visit the career site.

Entry can be at the next possible date, and the job ID is 9800.

Advice for applicants

Put front and center on your resume your hands-on work with NetApp ONTAP and any related high-availability configurations like MetroCluster or SnapMirror. Concrete examples of deployments, migrations or capacity upgrades will help you stand out.

Show your DevOps and automation chops by highlighting projects where you used Ansible, Python, PowerShell or REST APIs to automate provisioning, backups, restores or compliance checks. If you’ve built GitOps workflows or IaC pipelines, mention a specific outcome (time saved, error reduction, reliability gains) with numbers where possible.

Be prepared to discuss how you approach disaster recovery and business continuity, including how you’ve defined and validated RPO and RTO measures in real environments and how you handled incidents in a 24/7 support setting.

Think about a thoughtful question you can ask during the interview, such as how the team balances ongoing modernization with stability across critical storage and backup services, or how they measure success for the 24/7 on-call rotation and incident response.

How to apply

To apply, please upload your CV and references via the application form, and include your salary expectations and availability or notice period. Refer to job ID 9800 in the subject line if you contact the team by email about the role. If you have technical questions about the task, you can email [email protected]. Applications from people with disabilities are welcome; the SBV offers confidential guidance and can assist with accessibility, if you choose to involve them. The contact details at the bottom of the posting apply: 50Hertz Transmission GmbH – a company of the European Elia Group, Human Resources, Eduard Weissbrot, [email protected], www.50hertz.com