Junior Infrastructure & Ops Automation Engineer (AI)

Supports the reduction of the automation backlog within Application operations under guidance from senior team members, growing into ownership of Infrastructure-as-Code/CI-CD delivery and the operation of the company’s on-premise AI platform.

Responsibilities

• Support the reduction of the automation backlog (currently ca. 40 open requests, some pending for over 600 days), starting with smaller, well-scoped items
• Assist in implementing IaC and CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation
• Support onboarding of new platforms – incl. the company’s on-premise AI platform (consolidation of 6 cloud AI services into one GDPR-compliant solution with data sovereignty) and ZEUS Time Tracking
• Contribute to the team project “AI Chatbot”
• Help maintain and modernize existing infrastructure documentation (asset management)
• Contribute to the team goal AFAR (AI Feature Adoption Rate): at least 3 AI-supported Confluence pages

Requirements

• Some hands-on IT operations, scripting, or automation experience (seniority tier A1 / Junior); willingness to be trained and to grow into the role
• Basic scripting skills (PowerShell/Python), interest in CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as-Code
• Curiosity about AI-supported tooling in IT operations
• Comfortable asking for guidance on ambiguous, cross-departmental automation requests
• Willingness to participate in the team’s on-call rotation, per Standard Operating Documents (SODs), once trained on scope
• Good written and spoken English. German is a plus