IT System Engineer

About us:

ChemAxon is an open and friendly science-driven cheminformatics company. We provide a variety of software and applications for demanding users mostly from the pharmaceutical and biotech industry.

Location: Budapest, Graphisoft Park, Hungary

About the job: We are looking for an experienced full-time IT system engineer

Start date: ASAP

Your tasks will be:

• “Proactively and collaboratively develop, provide and support IT solutions in order to enable stakeholders to be as productive as possible in achieving their vision” (IT vision)
• Work closely with the technical and non-technical colleagues

Key tools and technologies which we use:

• Puppet, web services, reverse proxy, encryption, backup, monitoring, git, virtualization, LXD, Docker, heterogeneous environments, ISO 27000, ZFS, Ubuntu, OpenVPN, G Suite.

Required skills, experience and knowledge you should bring to us (the more the better):

• Strong ability to design reliable, secure and cost effective systems and solutions
• Commitment to automation
• Cloud (IaaS, SaaS) technologies and solutions usage expertise
• Commitment to work in a team, take responsibility as a whole
• Excellent Linux system administration
• Good command of English (written and spoken) is required
• Familiarity with at least one scripting language (Bash, Python, Perl…)

Extras that we would appreciate:

• Windows administration skills
• Oracle, PostgreSQL DBA skills
• Experience in continuous integration and delivery
• Experience with programming languages (eg. Java, Go...)
• Security-focused mindset and experience

The ideal candidate for this job:

• Keeps the user in focus
• Has neat and polite communication skills
• Is willing to work closely to users, mostly developers
• Is spirited and reliable
• Is creative and collaborative
• Can adapt to unexpected situations
• Has solution focused thinking
• Is open-minded, able to zoom out of the box and less influenced by own biases

We offer

• Competitive salary in a growing and continuously improving company
• An inspiring working environment (entertainment area, kid’s corner and a fully equipped kitchen) situated in Budapest’s greenest innovation park
• A training program with a generous yearly allowance for personal development
• Technical challenges
• Well implemented agile environment
• Occasional after-hours effort (in best-effort mode)

For some info on ChemAxon, you can check two videos:

• a shorter one about who we are (~1.5 min)
• another one with some history and about what we do (~5m)

How to apply? If you are interested please send your CV by clicking the "Apply now" button below.