diff --git a/env.sh b/env.sh
index 89d4143e8..ce8c31def 100755
--- a/env.sh
+++ b/env.sh
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ fi
 
 if [[ $LOGINHOST =~ ^m[A-Za-z0-9]+\.hpc\.dkrz\.de$ ]]; then
    STRATEGY="mistral.dkrz.de"
+elif [[ $LOGINHOST =~ ^l[A-Za-z0-9]+\.atos\.local$ ]]; then
+   STRATEGY="levante.dkrz.de"
 elif [[ $LOGINHOST =~ ^ollie[0-9]$ ]] || [[ $LOGINHOST =~ ^prod-[0-9]{4}$ ]]; then
    STRATEGY="ollie"
 elif [[ $LOGINHOST =~ ^h[A-Za-z0-9]+\.hsn\.hlrn\.de$ ]]; then
diff --git a/env/levante.dkrz.de/shell b/env/levante.dkrz.de/shell
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..bfa6db2a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/env/levante.dkrz.de/shell
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+# make the contents as shell agnostic as possible so we can include them with bash, zsh and others
+export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
+export CPU_MODEL=AMD_EPYC_ZEN3
+
+module load intel-oneapi-compilers/2022.0.1-gcc-11.2.0
+module load intel-oneapi-mkl/2022.0.1-gcc-11.2.0
+module load openmpi/4.1.2-intel-2021.5.0
+export FC=mpif90 CC=mpicc CXX=mpicxx ;
+export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/sw/spack-levante/intel-oneapi-mkl-2022.0.1-ttdktf/mkl/2022.0.1/lib/intel64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+
+module load netcdf-c/4.8.1-openmpi-4.1.2-intel-2021.5.0
+module load netcdf-fortran/4.5.3-openmpi-4.1.2-intel-2021.5.0
diff --git a/work/job_levante b/work/job_levante
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..3e45afcb0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/work/job_levante
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#SBATCH --job-name=ref
+#SBATCH -p compute
+#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=128
+#SBATCH --ntasks=512
+#SBATCH --time=08:00:00
+#SBATCH -o slurm-out.out
+#SBATCH -e slurm-err.out
+#SBATCH -A ab0995
+
+source /sw/etc/profile.levante
+source ../env/levante.dkrz.de/shell
+
+ulimit -s 102400
+
+echo Submitted job: $jobid
+squeue -u $USER
+
+# determine JOBID
+JOBID=`echo $SLURM_JOB_ID |cut -d"." -f1`
+
+ln -s ../bin/fesom.x .           # cp -n ../bin/fesom.x
+cp -n ../config/namelist.config  .
+cp -n ../config/namelist.forcing .
+cp -n ../config/namelist.oce     .
+cp -n ../config/namelist.ice     .
+cp -n ../config/namelist.icepack .
+
+date
+srun -l fesom.x > "fesom2.0.out"
+date
+
+# qstat -f $PBS_JOBID
+#export EXITSTATUS=$?
+#if [ ${EXITSTATUS} -eq 0 ] || [ ${EXITSTATUS} -eq 127 ] ; then
+#sbatch job_mistral
+#fi
+