Senior System Engineer Cloud Storage (mfd)

You want to make a big difference and play a key role in shaping our solution with state-of-the-art cloud technologies. Identifying with the products we provide to our customers is very important to us which is why we actively practice end-to-end this role you will receive support from many internal service teams to continuously refine our services and build a long-term stable and reliable solution that our customers will be happy to use.

• 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.

• 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).

• 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).