Senior System Engineer Cloud Storage

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Schwarz Unternehmenskommunikation GmbH & Co. KG

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In this role, you will design a future-proof storage architecture with your team, optimize system stability, conduct incident analyses, and automate operational processes to enhance efficiency.

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Your role in the team

  • Architecture: Together with your team, you are responsible for designing and maintaining a robust, efficient, and future-oriented 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 disruptions.
  • Incident and post-mortem analysis: As part of our incident and problem management process, you will handle major incidents in the storage area. Your goal is to identify and successfully implement sustainable measures to prevent them in the future.
  • Automation: You automate deployment and operational processes in the storage environment, with a continuous commitment to improving our products and getting a little better every day.
  • Performance & Capacity Planning: You analyze and optimize the performance of existing systems to support the future scaling of our environment, including proactive, forward-looking capacity planning.

Our expectations of you

Qualifications

  • Operating systems: Extensive hands-on expertise with Linux operating systems, including a proven ability to effectively troubleshoot system issues.
  • Continuous learning: You are highly motivated to get up to speed on new technologies and have a strong interest in integrations across the storage ecosystem, such as virtualization, backup, and observability (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch).
  • Mindset & Communication: You are a motivated team player who enjoys the challenges of operating complex storage systems (lifecycle management, high availability, performance analysis). Excellent communication skills in English are required for our international, agile teams (German is an optional bonus).

Experience

  • Storage expertise: Proven experience in the architecture, operation, and troubleshooting of storage systems. You have extensive hands-on experience with NetApp ONTAP.
  • Protocols & Architectures: Strong general understanding of storage architectures and in-depth experience with related protocols, particularly NFSv3, NFSv4.x, and NVMe-oF.
  • Automation & IaC: Extensive experience automating configurations and operational tasks. You are highly proficient with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks and tools such as Ansible, Terraform, and OpenTofu, as well as scripting/programming (e.g., Go, Python, Bash).
  • API management: Experience working with REST APIs.
  • Performance & Capacity Management: Proven experience in performance analysis, troubleshooting bottlenecks, and proactive capacity planning for complex storage environments.

Benefits

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Job locations

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  • Location Neckarsulm
    74172 Baden-Württemberg, Germany

About your employer

The Schwarz Group, based in Neckarsulm, is a significant German conglomerate and one of the largest retail groups in Europe. It operates over 13,900 stores under the brands Lidl and Kaufland and employs around 575,000 people.

Company type
Established Company
Work model
Onsite, Hybrid, Full Remote
Industry
Trade
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Senior System Engineer Cloud Storage

Schwarz Unternehmenskommunikation GmbH & Co. KG