Job
- Level
- Senior
- Job Field
- IT, DevOps, Back End
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Heilbronn
- Working Model
- Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will optimize the architecture of our Control Plane, develop reliable systems, automate processes, and work closely with development teams while leading incident responses.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- Do you want to conquer the cloud world with us, the STACKITEERs, and shape Europe's future together? 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 build the secure infrastructure for this. With our server locations exclusively in Germany and Austria, we offer both the Schwarz Group, of which we are part, and external customers a European alternative to international cloud providers and support our clients comprehensively with tailored solutions.
- As a dedicated STACKITEER, you are part of the STACKIT Products division. Here, our products and services are developed, tested, and improved.
- As an SRE for the STACKIT Control Plane, you shape the system architecture at the interface of development and systems engineering. Together with the development team, you design, build, and operate scalable and reliable systems. Your challenges range from optimizing databases and messaging systems to further developing our STACKIT services.
- You work closely with the development teams to reduce the "Time-to-Detect" by improving our monitoring and alerting infrastructure and ensuring compliance with the SLOs.
- Your work is crucial for the continuous optimization of "Time-to-Mitigation"; this is achieved through creating clear playbooks, designing dashboards for first responders, and ensuring comprehensive telemetry data (logs and metrics).
- You act as a Reliability Consultant for development teams, imparting knowledge about Reliability Patterns and supporting the "Shift Left" approach to establish a model of shared responsibility.
- You design and optimize development processes such as CI/CD pipelines to support progressive delivery strategies (e.g., Canary Releases and Blue/Green Deployments) and to roll out updates safely and with minimal risk.
- You proactively analyze the scalability of the Control Plane and address bottlenecks in areas such as Distributed Consensus, database throughput, and kernel-level networking.
- You participate in a paid on-call rotation, lead incident responses, and moderate post-mortems as well as root cause analyses.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- You possess expert knowledge of the internals of the Kubernetes Control Plane, including API Server, Controller Manager, Scheduler, and etcd.
- You are proficient in Go and write production-ready code to develop automation tools, Kubernetes operators, or integration code.
- You get to the bottom of problems to learn from them, automate yourself out of the job, and don't rely on the principle of hope.
Experience
- You have more than 3 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Platform Engineering, with a focus on operating large-scale distributed systems in production environments.
- You have extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code and container infrastructures, as well as in-depth knowledge of Linux internals (kernel tuning, memory management) and networking (TCP/IP, CNI, load balancers, eBPF).
- You bring experience in operating datastores (e.g., PostgreSQL, Redis) and messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, NATS) in scalable environments.
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Schwarz Unternehmenskommunikation GmbH & Co. KG
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.
Description
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Trade
Senior Site Reliability Engineer - STACKIT Control Plane
- Location
- Heilbronn
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
