Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) – The Research University in the Helmholtz Association creates and imparts knowledge for the society and the environment. It is our goal to make significant contributions to mastering the global challenges of mankind in the fields of energy, mobility, and information. For this, more than 9.000 employees of KIT cooperate in a broad range of disciplines in research, academic education, and innovation.
We are looking for the Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC) for June 1st, 2022 and limited until September 30th, 2025 for a
Developer (f/m/d) Identity and Access
Management (IAM)
– International Collaboration –
The SCC is a central scientific institution of KIT in connection with tasks in research, teaching, and innovation and performs overarching services within KIT and for external parties.
Our goal is the improved usefulness of digital identities in science, scientific collaborations, and higher education. We target the integration of scientific devices, such as HPC Clusters, OpenStack Clouds, or Terabyte Data Stores. Our focus is API and Commandline Access. For this we develop and extend protocols (such as SSH), participate in Standardisation Groups (e.g. OpenID Foundation, IETF) and cooperate within our international network.
We are one of the leading groups in this field.
Personal qualification
Required Skills
- Diploma / Master in Computer Science, Physics, Electrical Engineering or equivalent industry experience
- Analytical abilities and a strong ability to think creatively when approaching issues
- Programming experience in Python, C/C++
- Understanding of Identity Management and Authorisation Systems
- Experience with the Linux commandline and associated utilities
- Verbal presentation and writing skills in English
Desired Skills
- Experience of distributed Systems
- Experience with relevant Technologies, such as OpenID Connect, SSI or SAML
- Additional programming and scripting languages
The SCC allows you to work in an exciting and diverse environment within an international and diverse environment - in terms of scientific and geographical background, expertise and languages (people at SCC have more than 20 nationalities), age and gender. We operate one of the most modern, energy-efficient and powerful IT infrastructures in Germany with high-performance computers / supercomputers with GPUs, multi-petabyte storage systems, scaling cloud environments and cutting-edge AI hardware. We work in flat hierarchies and topic-oriented teams, offer excellent professional development opportunities as well as a high degree of self-responsible work. For us, work-life balance is important; this includes flexible working time models and opportunities for mobile work and new work. For more information, visit
www.scc.kit.edu.
We offer you an attractive and modern workplace with access to the excellent equipment of the KIT, a varied work, a wide range of training opportunities, flexible working time models and a casino/cafeteria.
We prefer to balance the number of employees (f/m/d). Therefore we kindly ask female applicants to apply for this job.
Recognized severely disabled persons will be preferred if they are equally qualified.
Please apply
online until June 30th, 2022 using the vacancy number
221/2022 and the
reference number 6 to Mr Dominik Meschar, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Human Resources, Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany. For further information, please contact Dr. Marcus Hardt, phone +49 721 608-24659,
hardt@kit.edu).
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