Senior System Engineer Cloud Storage (m/f/d)

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.

Senior System Engineer Cloud Storage Project metadata The Impact You Will Create

• Architecture: Together with your team, you are responsible for designing and maintaining a robust, efficient, and forward-looking storage architecture.
• Stability & Reliability: You are responsible for maintaining and optimizing the stability and availability of our highly resilient storage infrastructure (Block, Object, Backup, and File Storage). You ensure this through proactive monitoring, independently resolving incidents, and implementing measures to prevent future occurrences.
• Incident & Post-Mortem Analysis: You will take charge of processing major incidents involving storage as part of our incident and problem management process. Your goal is to derive and successfully implement mitigating measures for the future.
• Automation: You automate provisioning and operating processes in the storage environment with a continuous drive to improve our products and get a little better every day.
• Performance & Capacity Planning: You will analyze and optimize the performance of existing systems to support the future scaling of our landscape, including proactive, forward-looking capacity planning.

Experience And Skills You Will Need

• Storage Expertise: Proven experience in the architecture, operations, and troubleshooting of storage systems. You must have deep hands-on experience with NetApp ONTAP or NetApp StorageGRID,
• Protocols & Architectures: Strong overall understanding of storage architectures and deep experience with associated protocols, specifically NFSv3, NFSv4.x, NVMe-oF, and S3.
• Operating Systems: Solid, practical experience working with Linux operating systems.
• Automation: Strong experience in automating configurations and operational tasks.
• API Management: Experience in working with REST APIs.
• Curiosity & Interface Topics: A strong motivation to dig into and learn new technologies. You have a keen interest in topics surrounding the storage ecosystem, such as virtualization, backup, monitoring, and logging (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch).
• Mindset & Language: You are a motivated team player who enjoys the challenges of operating complex storage systems (lifecycle, high availability, performance analysis).
• Excellent communication skills in English are required for our international, agile teams (German is an optional bonus).

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Containerization: Experience using Kubernetes (K8s) and working within containerized system landscapes in a storage context.
• You are proficient with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks and tools such as Ansible, Terraform, and OpenTofu, as well as scripting/programming (e.g., Golang, Python, Bash).