Come and work at our global office. Remote first.

Our focus is on trust and team spirit. Everyone in our team decides for themselves where they want to work from - as far as we are concerned the location is irrelevant for the result.

Those who choose our on-site office will find ideal conditions and get their own, permanent desk with own office.

Our values, our identity

Training

Train people well enough so they can leave. Treat them well enough so they don’t want to!
— Richard Branson

Being at a standstill is never good. That’s why we don’t just work on developing solutions, but also on developing you. Let’s work together to find the right training courses to keep you moving forward. We’ll sound out your interests and plan your personal training budget.

Further benefits

• Top-notch work equipment with a budget to use as you see fit, plus support and expertise in equipment selection.
• Responsibility – at foundata you get your own voice and ownership from day one. We achieve more that way than if we interfere in each other’s business.
• Mobility – we prefer to promote public transport and cycling, but we are not dogmatic (we understand that a car is often the only alternative):
  • Deutschlandticket (JobTicket)
  • If it makes more sense for you than pure gross salary: Bahncard 100 or company car.
  • JobRad

Workation

Workation originates from the words work and vacation. It means combining work and leisure to allow employees to relax and be more productive. In practice, this means that the place of work is relocated, e.g. to a holiday location or somewhere outdoors. At foundata this is not just an empty promise, but actually feasible if you can manage it, of course with our support. Work and discover the world.

We are up to date on formalities such as postings and insurance. Our collaboration tools, which we also use for customers, are not just useful when working from home but also on the go.

Our Techstack

To give you an impression of the possibilities out-of-the-box:

• Automation:
  • Ansible (and the Python ecosystem that comes with it)
  • Powershell (in the system provider area)
• Web development (in-house):
  • Python, Django, PostgreSQL
  • Hugo
  • Tailwind CSS
• Consulting and enterprise consulting:
  • Red Hat solutions (RHEL, OpenShift, Ansible)
  • Network automation (Ansible, target platforms from Cisco (primarily NX-OS and ACI) and Omada in the SME/SMB area)
  • HashiCorp solutions (Vault, Terraform)
• System provider area:
  • Proxmox and KVM/QEMU
  • collaboration tools, which we also use at our customers.
  • e-mail and groupware infrastructure, which we also use for our customers.

Linux laptops are our main working devices (free choice of distribution, Fedora currently prevailing). The hardware mostly comes from Lenovo or framework. MacBooks with macOS are of course also possible, but in terms of internal support these are 2nd class citizens.

Our office in Karlsruhe

• We have plenty of space and the top two floors of the building to ourselves. In addition to chic offices, we also offer a well-equipped meeting room, three kitchens and two showers.
• Excellently equipped IT laboratory whose services can also be used remotely. Four racks full of technology, VM hosts, IP sockets, Pi-KVM and serial-to-SSH servers in laboratory networks with VPN make this possible. Of course we also have a 3D printer room(!) and lots of tools for tinkering about.
• If you want to work regularly on site, you will have your own office with a permanent desk and a secure parking space for your vehicle (whether bike or car). We currently have fifteen underground parking spaces, three wall boxes and several normal sockets. We also have six parking spaces in the inner courtyard, which are currently reserved for visitors.

Address, map, directions

foundata GmbH
Steinhäuserstraße 20
76135 Karlsruhe
Deutschland

• Map view / plan route (Google Maps)
• Map view / plan route (OpenStreetMap)

Application process

Send your application as an email to work@foundata.com, attachments ideally as PDF files. Your contact person is Andreas Haerter. Our team is on first-name terms and this is also okay in applications. If you feel more comfortable using a more formal tone during the application, we will of course respect this.

Applications typically go through the following stages:

• Viewing: Your application documents will be viewed and evaluated by us. You will receive a confirmation of receipt.
• Getting to know each other: If we find your application suitable, we will invite you to a video call¹ to exchange initial information and to clarify basic questions as well as to go into depth on points from your application, in particular the financial framework and salary. These calls usually last 30 to 90 minutes.
• Draft employment contract: If everything is still fine for you and us, you will receive a draft employment contract for review. This is not yet an offer, but is meant to avert any surprises or ambiguities.
• Hiring is a team decision for us. That’s why we’d like to spend a working day with you and do something in the evening (that’s on us, of course).
• Decision and offer: If you and we think “Hell yeah!” after this day, the draft employment contract will become an offer and you will hopefully become part of our team. If not: at least we all had an interesting day.

Vacancies

Unfortunately, we do not currently have any open positions. If you are nevertheless particularly interested in foundata and are convinced that you would be a strong fit, both professionally and personally, you may send us an unsolicited application by email.

We do not want to create false expectations: an unsolicited application is not an application for an advertised vacancy, and we cannot currently offer a specific starting date or permanent position. We will contact you if a suitable need arises.

Unsolicited applications: system administrator or DevOps engineer (m/f/d)

For future permanent, full-time positions, we are particularly interested in profiles covering system administration, IT infrastructure, DevOps and cloud engineering. Our typical work includes advising and supporting customers, Linux and server administration, building on-premises infrastructure, automating application deployments, and implementing CI/CD workflows, container platforms, cloud infrastructure and monitoring.

You should cover most of the following profile:

• Completed IT apprenticeship, IT degree or comparable qualifications, such as relevant certifications and practical professional experience
• Strong Linux skills and confidence working with Git
• Experience automating IT infrastructure, preferably with Ansible and Terraform; knowledge of SaltStack, Chef or Puppet is also relevant
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containers and container platforms such as Kubernetes or OpenShift
• Knowledge of at least one cloud stack, such as OpenStack or AWS
• An independent and structured approach to work, willingness to learn, openness, commitment and honesty
• Willingness to take responsibility and support our open-source spirit
• Business-level English; many customer projects and system administrator roles also require business-level German

Additional experience with network administration (IPv4, IPv6, TCP, routing and ACLs), monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana or Zabbix, Windows and PowerShell administration, mail server administration, and artifact or supply-chain security is welcome.

Technical apprenticeship

There are no apprenticeship positions left for the 2026/2027 training year. All places have been filled, so we cannot consider further applications for this intake.

In general, foundata offers apprenticeships as an IT specialist in system integration or application development, including to applicants who did not finish their university studies. We expect high motivation and a successfully completed Abitur, or a comparable level of secondary education, with good grades in mathematics and English.

You will enjoy excellent training with dedicated trainers (Andreas, Tatjana, Eibhlin) and also work closely with management in everyday life. Your professional school is only a few meters away from the office, so its infrastructure and equipment are close by, plus you can park there and always have a pleasant place to stay in free periods.

We pay an apprenticeship salary of €980 in the first year, €1070 in the second and €1160 in the third. In addition, you will be provided with high-quality work equipment, teaching materials and a Deutschlandticket (JobTicket).