Would you like to become part of our success story?
Are you passionate about IT? Do you want to make your own decisions about your digital footprint and make a difference in the world? Then you’ve come to the right place. Working with us, you will bring exciting and large-scale projects for more digital sovereignty in public administration and business to a successful conclusion and can open up new paths for sustainable digitalization. You become part of the globally collaborating and agile open-source community and help to shape the IT of tomorrow. be open – for new professional challenges and an inspiring and open collaboration in our team of IT experts and open-source enthusiasts.
This is Univention
Since 2002, we are offering companies and institutions open-source solutions for managing digital identities and integrating IT applications using UCS and UCS@school. We allow them to keep their data and processes under their control. Therefore, they can determine which solutions they use, optimally adapt their IT to their own needs, and remain independent of specific manufacturers. In this way, we create the basis for digital sovereignty and a self-determined and future-oriented IT.
With our solutions, the digital identities for millions of users worldwide are securely managed and used by thousands of organizations as an open platform for integrating IT applications – from corporations like Orange or Suse, many federal states, schools, and small businesses.
Get to know your future colleagues
What does the typical working day look like for Stefanie, Open-Source Software Consultant, and what did Arvid, Team Lead Software Engineering, have the most respect for in his job interview? Let your future team colleagues tell you what working at Univention is like for them.
Arvid
My life is ruled by SCRUM and Bugzilla – just kidding. It’s actually quite a dynamic mix of tasks, partly technical but also quite a lot of communication in and between teams. The only fixed date recurring every day are the SCRUM dailies.
Jan-Luca
Even as a working student with less weekly working hours, I always feel involved and am treated as a full-fledged colleague. Therefore I am all the more happy to start working for Univention directly after my studies as IT system engineer.
Julia
What I particularly like about my training is that I was allowed to work directly on the product from the very beginning. I have always received a lot of support but also trust.
Kevin
The development of employees and teams is my passion. Every day I am striving to take our organization to the next level.
Stefanie
Working as a consultant is an interesting mixture of IT know-how and customer contact to me.
Arjen
Univention is not a typical hierarchical company. At Univention, being a Project Manager for example is not about hierarchy, but a Project Manager is just another role to make things work.
Oliver
Univention gives me a lot of freedom to develop. Also, Univention pursues social goals in addition to monetary ones. I am happy to contribute to the further spread of OpenSource software and digital sovereignty.
Our Vision: Creating Digital Sovereignty for the World
The demand for Digital Sovereignty is more urgent than ever. We all leave traces and data on the internet – sometimes voluntarily, but very often without being able to influence it ourselves. Large self-contained cloud platforms collect our data in ever more networked digital structures. We do not know what they use it for, as we are not allowed to see the algorithms of these companies. That means we lose control over our digital identity, the possibility for innovation, competition, and self-determination.
Therefore, our goal is to advance Digital Sovereignty worldwide by raising awareness and enabling a more conscious use of IT. With 100% open-source software and the possibility to decide at any time to whom we hand over which data, we guarantee transparency and control over data, processes, and software. Because only those who have freedom of choice can define who they are and what role they want to play in a digital world. In this way, we not only increase security and trust in IT. Furthermore, we also promote innovative strength and economic independence at all levels.
Our Culture: What makes us tick
At Univention, we cultivate a corporate culture that enables every employee to develop their potential, drive projects forward, develop themselves further and take on responsibility. We meet each other at eye level, respect performance and good ideas and not hierarchies. Our five core values form the basis: openness, integrity, respect, responsibility, and development. We have developed these in a mutual exchange, regularly put them to the test of practical cooperation and constantly develop them further.
Your benefits
Working at Univention not only brings you forward professionally and personally but feels good too – benefit from our diverse development opportunities and benefits, from team workshops, training, the possibility to work mobile to sponsored company fitness.
Flexible working hours allow you to maintain a good work-life balance
Whether from home, the office, or a quiet place of your choice. With us, you choose your workplace
We support you in your health and subsidize your sports activities at Qualitrain and your company bike
At company events such as regulars’ tables, virtual meetings, summer and Christmas parties, you also get to know your colleagues on a personal level
You can try out new ideas, working methods, and technologies in small teams at regular hackathons
Whether Bremen, Berlin, or Leipzig: our offices are all centrally located and easily accessible for you thanks to the best connections
Linux, Mac, or Windows? Choose the technology that works best for you
We support you financially with a wide range of further training opportunities and offer plenty of internal opportunities for learning and exchanging ideas with your colleagues
Short decision-making processes, agile work and eye-to-eye encounters give you room for independent and successful work