Background: The Internet’s ICANN may add in its sole discretion new top-level domains into its central Root Server TLD database shortly. By this domain names like www.why.berlin, www.thisisacrappydomainname.berlin and www.thereisnoplacelike.berlin will become available. For this reason we are seeking adequate employees that complement the dotBERLIN team with exceptional knowledge, experience, background and attitude. For the very nearest future we are looking to fill the following positions conscientiously:
IP Supervisor (m/f)
You are able to map and trace any domain name in milliseconds with its corresponding IPv6 address by your photographic memory and intuitive allocation knowledge; even under exceptional circumstances and at shifting time zones? You track the traffic on the Internet since your time at Kindergarten? If yes, your main tasks at dotBERLIN are tracking all .berlin domain requests, the defense of the hierarchy, nomenclature and coherence of any kind of IP addresses for the security of our company. You will be also the key master of our domain safe, experience in managing domain tools is essential. The supervision of the 1,5‑charcters rule and its exceptions is also part of your tasks. Previous job experience at IANA, Ripe, TCP/IP or the ftp-http consortium is appreciated, but not mandatory.
Advisor to the CEO (m/f)
Do you love the Internet and domain names especially?
Yes, then you are right with us, since you will be responsible for advising our CEO on operational excellence, strategic foresight on the future of the interplanetary internet, and the individual performance during .berlin speaker slots worldwide. This encompasses many responsibilities including scanning of the latest presentation technologies, following twitter every second (86400x7x365) on latest internet technologies, developing organisational flow charts and reporting schemes, and the overall well-being of our CEO. Previous job experience with Deutsche Telekom, BT (British Telecom) and Telekom Italia is appreciated, but not mandatory.
Salary
Salary for the jobs mentioned above is above the ICANN industry average. Extra provisions/bonuses and hand money will round up you benefits as well as relocation support, 5 dotBERLIN buttons per year and lots of technical benefits such as free WLAN, latest iGadgets and a scooter.
Job benefits and requirements
For all jobs offered you can expect an extraordinary likeable team with long term experience, endurance and passion in developing new top-level domain concepts. Your work center will be in our Wilhelminian style office in the centrally located borough of Berlin Schöneberg (translated: beautiful mountain) with in-house access to one of the oldest bars in Berlin, the Felsenkeller (translated: stone cellar); preferential access to the bar’s community is included in the benefits. The Felsenkeller’s long-standing community also acts as independent clearinghouse for decision making.
Extensive travel for dotBERLIN will bring you to some of the most beautiful places on earth but also to unbelievable airport nightmares. Therefore we expect for all jobs offered robust health of the applicant including accurate vaccination (e.g. rabies, yellow fever, meningitis, flu, DTP, MMR and other malicious viruses), no fear of flying and the ability to sleep at the airport for up to seven nights a year. Resilience to temperature as well as to vertical separation or integration scenarios as well as scorecard know-how is mandatory.
We would appreciate if you are interested and expect your CV sent to Katrin Ohlmer (katrin at dotberlin dot de)
About dotBERLIN
dotBERLIN, founded in 2005, is a bottom-up community-based organization which with the aim to establish and operate the .berlin top-level domain as name space and identity for all Berliners. Our focus is to develop .berlin responsible and sustainably within a multi-stakeholder framework including government, private sector and civil society. Our vision is that the new local .berlin domain names are concise and create an identity for citizens, companies and institutions. Those providing and looking for information, goods and services can thus intuitively come together. The .berlin domain names will strengthen the feeling of community amongst Berliners, improve communication and make interaction easier, thus providing a stimulus for innovation and development. Both for Berliners and for non-Berliners, the places called Berlin become more attractive as a place to visit, as a commercial location and as a place to live.