Software Engineer* - Deployment and automation solutions

  • Langen
  • Full-time
  • With professional experience
  • German & English

*Gender (f/m/d) doesn't matter, the main thing is aviation enthusiasts

This is our best-known task: the safe and precise organisation of air traffic in Germany. Experienced, excellently trained air traffic controllers are responsible for this. As an employer, however, we have an even broader base - as emphasised by the fact that we employ over 5,600 people. At our headquarters, branches and tower sites, we offer attractive career prospects to newcomers and professionals from many areas. With people who love their job and in an environment that feels like a family. Ready to start?

Langen near Frankfurt is our company headquarters and centre branch. This is where the present and future of the Group is developed. With around 2,500 employees in the areas of management, IT, technology, training and further education - refreshingly located in the centre of a large, green campus.

 
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Job description

*Gender (f/m/d) doesn't matter, the main thing is aviation enthusiasts

This is our best-known task: the safe and precise organisation of air traffic in Germany. Experienced, excellently trained air traffic controllers are responsible for this. As an employer, however, we have an even broader base - as emphasised by the fact that we employ over 5,600 people. At our headquarters, branches and tower sites, we offer attractive career prospects to newcomers and professionals from many areas. With people who love their job and in an environment that feels like a family. Ready to start?

Langen near Frankfurt is our company headquarters and centre branch. This is where the present and future of the Group is developed. With around 2,500 employees in the areas of management, IT, technology, training and further education - refreshingly located in the centre of a large, green campus.

 
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What you can expect from us

Support our team full-time in the area of software development for our centralised air traffic control systems at our branches.

Give your future the right altitude. With plenty of room for manoeuvre in a company that wants to set standards as an air navigation service provider: personally, technically, sustainably.

Our benefits

✈ 32 days paid time off (including holidays) per year, plus Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve off
✈ Attractive salary structure / pay scale-based remuneration incl. company pension scheme
✈ Flexible working hours with a 38.5-hour week
✈ Mobile working
✈ Secure career prospects
✈ Discounted offer in the company restaurant / cafeteria
✈ Wide range of leisure and sports activities on the Langen campus
✈ Access to discounted tourism portals

Your tasks include

✈ Independent development of solutions and complex software changes for our deployment software

Documentation and maintenance of user documentation (including in Confluence)

✈ Independent specification and responsibility for design solutions in complex software changes, including the development of specifications, planning of implementation and execution of acceptance tests as well as preparation of acceptance protocols

Integration of new functionalities into existing environments

✈ Troubleshooting and verification of application software in test environments

✈ Advising customers and users and playing a key role in decision-making processes

✈ Working on complex, interdisciplinary projects in a dynamic environment

What you bring with you

✈ Degree in a scientific/technical field (e.g. computer science, mathematics, communications engineering) with several years of professional experience in software development

✈ Profound knowledge in the development of software, especially in the field of hardware, driver programming, scripting languages (e.g. bach, python as well as C and C++ as programming languages) and network technology in Linux environments

✈ Experience with software development methods, modern development languages and frameworks as well as virtualisation technologies (e.g. kvm/gemu, libvirt, Proxmox VE, Kubernetes)

✈ Experience in using automation tools such as Puppet and Ansible as well as knowledge of GitLab, Docker and other modern DevOps technologies is desirable

✈ High level of interest and enjoyment in working with and configuring hardware and hardware-related programming

✈ High degree of analytical ability and goal-orientation as well as the ability to cooperate

✈ Business fluent in written and spoken English 

 

About the company

DFS - that stands for DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH.

With around 5,800 employees at 19 locations, we ensure that millions of passengers reach their destinations safely and reliably every year.

We control air traffic in German airspace and ensure that all aircraft always keep sufficient distance from each other. We also make sure that the aircraft under our control reach their destination on time and without major detours - and thus as environmentally friendly as possible. We also help to protect against aircraft noise through intelligent flight routes and low-noise procedures. We rely on teamwork and technical innovations.

Our benefits

  • Promotion opportunities
  • Vocational training
  • Company pension scheme
  • Company kindergarten
  • Company bike
  • Company car
  • Flexible working hours
  • Home office
  • Public transport ticket / subsidy
  • Team building
  • Further training