Senior IT Systems Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Senior Systems Engineer who feels comfortable at the intersection of classical on-premises infrastructure and modern cloud-native technologies. You will be responsible for the reliability automation and observability of our hybrid environments with a strong focus on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Observability using the Grafana LGTM Stack Kubernetes cluster management and automation workflows. 

Your main responsibilities 

• Design operate and continuously improve the reliability & availability of our VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) based platforms (on-prem and in interconnection with cloud environments) 
• Implement and extend our observability stack based on Grafana LGTM 
• Manage and automate VMware landscapes (vSphere NSX vSAN Aria Suite etc.) in large-scale hybrid/multi-cloud setups 
• Build operate and scale Kubernetes clusters including day-2 operations upgrades capacity management and security hardening 
• Develop and maintain automation workflows primarily using Kestra (in conjunction with other tools such as Ansible Terraform) 
• Drive incident response post-mortem culture error budgets and toil reduction according to SRE principles 
• Collaborate closely with development teams platform teams and security to enable self-service capabilities and fast safe releases 
• Participate in on-call rotation 

Qualifications :

• Very good hands-on experience with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)  ideally including recent versions (5.x / 9.x) 
• Solid understanding of core VMware technologies: vSphere NSX vSAN Aria Operations / Aria Automation 
• Practical experience operating and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters (preferably 14 years) 
• Good knowledge of container ecosystem concepts 
• Strong skills with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform Ansible) 
• Experience with workflow orchestration / automation tools  Kestra is a strong plus 
• Very good practical knowledge of Grafana LGTM stack 
• Scripting & programming skills 
• Understanding of hybrid cloud architectures (on-prem public cloud connectivity patterns) 
• Familiar with SRE principles (SLI/SLO error budgets toil reduction blameless post-mortems) 
• Good German and very good English skills (documentation & communication mostly in English) 

Additional Information :

• A mutually-supportive international team
• Meaningful work with a lasting impact on medical technology
• 30 vacation days plus December 24th and December 31st
• Flexible working hours as well as hybrid work model within Germany
• Bike leasing via cooperation partner BikeLeasing
• Parking garage and safe underground bike storage
• Award-winning subsidized company restaurant and in-house cafes
• Variety-rich fitness program in our ultra-modern 360m2 company gym
• Regular after work team and company events
• Comprehensive training and continuing education opportunities

Ready to apply We look forward to receiving your online application including your first available start date and desired salary. 

Contact person: Leonie von Leoprechting

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time