Junior API Manager (m/f/d) with a flair for IT infrastructure - Direct entry PLUS

Union Investment | Frankfurt am Main

Frankfurt am Main

Full-time
Bachelor's degree
Diploma
Master
Without professional experience
German

Job description

As a Junior API Manager, you will become an integral part of our team, responsible for managing and optimising our API platform. Working alongside our experienced developers, product managers, and other colleagues, you will ensure that our APIs meet the needs of our company and offer the highest quality. Your main objective will be to guarantee the efficiency, security, and reliability of our APIs, all while gaining valuable experience in API management. In parallel with API management, you will bring an affinity for IT infrastructures and make a valuable contribution to operations with your expertise.

Your tasks include

Ensuring the stable and secure operation of our API platform
Skilful application of IaC, AI and CI/CD pipelines to continuously optimise and improve the operation of the API platform and processes
Monitoring the performance of our APIs and identifying areas for improvement.
Active engagement with the topic of security to protect our APIs from potential threats, as well as further development of the API platform
Collaboration in IT Core Infrastructure – LAN/WAN, DNS, DHCP, Firewalls and Load Balancers as well as Active Directory and Windows Server

Are you a graduate or do you already have your first professional experience and are you passionate about a specific field?

Choosing the Direct Entry PLUS programme means knowing exactly where you want to get started. Your PLUS in our six-month support programme includes networking events to quickly build contacts, online learning courses and on-site training, shadowing opportunities in relevant interface departments, as well as workshops and lectures. For your optimal and individual career start in the world of capital markets, we focus on personal support, variety, and a culture of action.

What you bring with you

Completed degree in (Business) Informatics or IT specialist successfully completed and first experience in the IT environment gained; alternatively, a comparable qualification.
Ideally, first experience in API management and familiar with various IT architectures and networks
Not afraid of the command line and ideally knowledge of scripting or programming (Python, Terraform, Bash, PowerShell, GitLab and Azure DevOps Pipelines are an advantage)
Fundamental understanding of project management practices and an open mindset towards agile working methods
A way of working characterised by partnership, appreciation, enthusiasm, and teamwork.

We also welcome diverse educational backgrounds and work experience. We are open to talented individuals whose CVs do not match the requirements in our job advertisements one hundred per cent at first glance. We offer the right conditions to fully develop their individual potential.

About the company

Union Investment is known for its outstanding expertise in asset management, making it one of the leading investment fund companies.

As part of the Genossenschaftliche FinanzGruppe, we have been offering private individuals and institutional customers future-proof investment solutions since 1956 with the aim of increasing the assets of our more than five million investors. Our culture is characterised by high performance standards and a spirit of partnership. All of our employees have their own story to tell.

It is a matter of course for us to create a working environment in which people of different genders, from different age groups, with physical disabilities, different sexual orientations, social and cultural backgrounds, ethnic affiliations and religions can be themselves.

We value this diversity and use it to create a community to which everyone makes a valuable contribution.