Cloud Storage Engineer - STACKIT (m/f/d)
Location:Heilbronn, DE
Department:IT - Cloud Services
Level:Experienced professionals
Reference number:16501
You want to take the cloud world by storm with us STACKITEERs and shape the future of Europe with us? That's great! Then STACKIT is the right place for you. Our vision is ambitious: An independent Europe - digital, leading. As a cloud and colocation provider, we are building the secure infrastructure for this. With our server locations exclusively in Germany and Austria, we offer both the Schwarz Group, to which we belong, and external customers a European alternative to international cloud providers and support our customers holistically with individual solutions.
As a dedicated STACKITEER, you are part of the STACKIT Products division. This is where our products and services are developed, tested and improved.
As a dedicated STACKITEER, you are part of the STACKIT Products division. This is where our products and services are developed, tested and improved.
What You’ll Do
- You take care of the various storage systems in the areas of block-, object-, backup- and cold-storage in highly available environments (e.g. NetApp, Cohesity, Pure, Quantum)
- You continue to develop the infrastructure API (e.g. provision of additional storage functionalities as self-service via REST API)
- You extend and improve the current storage environment with further solution scenarios (e.g. introduction of new storage systems, development of new regions)
- You are responsible for the surrounding system landscape of the storage environment (e.g. self-service API, virtualization, Kubernetes, monitoring and logging)
- You create and maintain the professional documentation for efficient use and stable operation of the platform (e.g. for customers and internal teams)
- You are part of the development of a high-performance cloud platform based on Linux and OpenStack with a focus on storage (in particular OpenStack cinder, KVM, etc...)
- You are part of a motivated team that likes to strive for improvement and continuously develops itself (and the products)
What You’ll Need
- You have experience and know the market in one or more of the areas of block-, object-, backup- and cold-storage (e.g. solution scenarios, deployment, operation, scaling options, migration)
- You have already worked with APIs and developed them (e.g. REST API with Python, Go, Rust)
- You have experience with infrastructure as code in automated environments (e.g. CI/CD, pipelines, Kubernetes)
- You know the challenges of (self-)operation of storage systems (e.g. protocols, troubleshooting, performance analysis, high availability, lifecycle)
- You have good knowledge of automation (e.g. using Python, Bash, Ansible)
- You feel comfortable in open source-based virtualization and container environments
- You bring passion and enthusiasm for new technologies and topics related to various storage systems
Your point of contact for professional exchange is Markus Falk (email: Markus.Falk@mail.schwarz; Tel.: +49 7132 30-455021).
Benefits
An independent Europe - digital, leading. If this vision inspires you as much as we do, let's build the sovereign cloud for it together.
You will become part of Europe's leading retail group, the Schwarz Group. As a STACKITEER, you will be part of the IT and digital division, Schwarz Digits. You benefit from the dynamism of a young company and the strength of the established group of companies behind Lidl and Kaufland.
We like to hear your ideas - at all levels: Duz culture and open doors make the work varied and productive. In doing so, we encourage thinking outside the box and working together in agile structures in order to jointly develop innovative solutions.
You will become part of an international team, because our STACKITEERs come from all over the world and form a real unit. We love and live the cloud. Everyone contributes their own strengths, and together we continuously improve our portfolio.
Our cloud solutions are based on open source technologies, which means we promote open standards in cloud development. With us, you can rely on innovative approaches, a supportive community and modern IT equipment.