Senior IT Systems Engineer
Job Summary
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
About Company
Brainlab revolutionized digital medical technology with the introduction of software for radiosurgery and surgical navigation. Today, Brainlab is an industry leader in digital surgery, radiotherapy and integrated operating rooms.Serving physicians, medical professionals and patients i ... View more