About the Position

Deutsche Börse Group is an international exchange organization and market infrastructure provider. Our highly integrated and automated IT solutions form the technological foundation of our business and support reliable access to global capital markets.

For our Section "Commodities IT", we are looking for a dedicated Senior Systems Engineer to contribute to the engineering, automation, and operation of business-critical infrastructure supporting 24/7 commodities services.

As part of an international and agile engineering team, you will take ownership of infrastructure platforms throughout their lifecycle, working closely with application development, network, storage, database, data center, security, and other technology teams to deliver secure, resilient, and highly available services.

Responsibilities

Operate, maintain, and continuously improve mission-critical on-premises and cloud infrastructure supporting 24/7 Commodities IT services.
Take technical ownership throughout the infrastructure lifecycle, including implementation, configuration, patching, upgrades, performance optimization, capacity planning, and decommissioning.
Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, maintenance, and operational processes using Ansible, Terraform, Git, Python, and Shell scripting.
Develop reusable automation components and self-service capabilities to reduce manual effort and improve consistency and reliability of infrastructure operations.
Implement platform security, system hardening, and vulnerability remediation in coordination with Cyber Security and other relevant teams.
Improve monitoring, logging, metrics, and alerting capabilities to strengthen observability and enable proactive operations across on-premises and cloud environments.
Troubleshoot complex infrastructure incidents, perform technical analysis, and implement sustainable corrective and preventive actions.
Coordinate infrastructure dependencies and technical activities with application, cloud, network, storage, database, data center, and security teams.
Maintain technical documentation, participate in agile team activities, and contribute to the on-call rotation.

Requirements

University degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a comparable discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
At least seven years of hands-on experience in systems or infrastructure engineering, including work in business-critical production environments.
Strong administration and troubleshooting experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Strong experience with virtualized infrastructure, preferably VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter.
Experience automating infrastructure processes using Ansible, Terraform, Git, Python, or Shell scripting.
Strong experience operating on-premises infrastructure, together with practical exposure to cloud infrastructure and services.
Experience with infrastructure monitoring, logging, metrics, and alerting.
Strong analytical and troubleshooting capabilities combined with a structured approach and a strong sense of ownership.
Effective communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to coordinate technical activities with internal specialist teams.
Professional proficiency in English.

Nice to Have

Experience with Red Hat Satellite and Ansible Automation Platform.
Hands-on experience operating and automating cloud infrastructure.
Experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift.
Experience with modern monitoring, logging, and observability platforms.
Knowledge of high availability, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery concepts.
Practical experience with AI-assisted tools for infrastructure operations, troubleshooting, automation, or documentation.
Experience with privileged-access or secrets-management solutions.
Experience working in regulated, highly available, or 24/7 environments.
Experience with agile ways of working such as Kanban or Scrum.

We Offer

Contribute to the infrastructure supporting business-critical commodities markets and the evolving energy landscape.
Work with modern on-premises and cloud technologies while helping to advance automation, AI-assisted operations, and platform reliability.
Take meaningful ownership of critical infrastructure and contribute to improvements across operations, maintenance, resilience, and security.
Join a collaborative international team of experienced technology professionals.
Develop your technical expertise through challenging projects, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning opportunities.

About the Company

Location: Prague, CZ

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