* You want to make a difference and play a significant role in shaping the solution with state-of-the-art cloud technologies
* You have extensive experience in the market environment with various storage products (e.g. NetApp, Cohesity, Pure, Ceph) in the area of block, object, backup or file storage and have good knowledge of cloud environments and their architectures
* You are an expert in the operation of storage infrastructure (e.g. solution scenarios, provision, scaling, migration, incident response) and their automation (e.g. using Golang / Python, Bash, Ansible)
* You are familiar with containerized system landscapes of the storage environment (e.g. k8s)
* You have experience in monitoring, alerting and logging to ensure complete system monitoring (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch)
* You are already working with APIs and are developing them further (e.g. REST API with Golang and Python)
* You enjoy the challenges of operating storage systems (e.g. protocols, troubleshooting, performance analyzes, high availability, lifecycle)
* You bring with you passion and enthusiasm for new technologies and topics related to various storage systems
* You like to be part of a motivated team that always strives for improvement and continuously develops itself (and the products)
* Your excellent communication skills in German and English form the basis for successful cooperation in international, agile teams
Introduction text
Schwarz Digits creates the technological foundation for digital sovereignty in Europe. As the IT and digital division of the Schwarz Group, we develop and manage the IT infrastructures for the retail divisions Lidl and Kaufland, as well as Schwarz Production and PreZero. At the same time, we operate as an independent provider in the external market to support companies across Europe in their digital transformation. We bundle our core services in the areas of Cloud, Cyber Security, Data & AI, Communication, and Workspace.
Join us and contribute to digital sovereignty in Europe. With us, you will work at the intersection of agility and security: You will benefit from fast decision-making processes, enjoy genuine creative freedom in your projects, and be able to build upon the stable foundation of the Schwarz Group.
Your tasks
* Stability & Reliability: You are responsible for maintaining and optimizing the stability and availability of our highly available, resilient storage infrastructure (block, object, backup and file storage). You ensure this through proactive monitoring, solving occurring faults on your own responsibility and avoiding their occurrence in the future
* Automation: You automate the provisioning and operating processes in the storage environment with your own aspiration to become a little better every day and to continuously optimize our products
* Architecture: With your team, you are responsible for a robust and efficient storage architecture - because it is important to you to build a long-term stable and reliable solution that our customers will be happy to use
* End-to-end responsibility: Identifying with the products we provide to our customers is very important to us. Therefore, we actively live an end-to-end responsibility and receive support from many internal STACKIT service teams to refine our services
* Performance and capacity planning: You will analyze and optimize the performance of our existing systems with regard to future scaling of the landscape. This also includes forward-looking capacity planning
* Incident and post-mortem analysis: You are responsible for processing (major) incidents with storage participation as part of the incident & problem management process of STACKIT with the aim of deriving mitigating measures for the future and then successfully implementing them