Senior IT Systems Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Senior Systems Engineer who feels comfortable at the intersection of classical on-premises infrastructure and modern cloud-native technologies. You will be responsible for the reliability, automation and observability of our hybrid environments – with a strong focus on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), Observability using the Grafana, Kubernetes cluster management, and automation workflows. 

Your main responsibilities 

• Design, operate and continuously improve the reliability & availability of our VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) based platforms (on-prem and in interconnection with cloud environments) 
• Manage and automate VMware landscapes (vSphere, NSX, vSAN, Aria Suite etc.) in large-scale hybrid/multi-cloud setups 
• Implement and extend our observability stack based on Grafana 
• Build, operate and scale Kubernetes clusters, including day-2 operations, upgrades, capacity management and security hardening 
• Develop and maintain automation workflows primarily using Kestra (in conjunction with other tools such as Ansible, Terraform) 
• Drive incident response, post-mortem culture, error budgets and toil reduction according to SRE principles 

• Very good hands-on experience with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) – ideally including recent versions (5.x / 9.x) 
• Solid understanding of core VMware technologies: vSphere, NSX, vSAN 
• Practical experience operating and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters  
• Good knowledge of container ecosystem concepts 
• Strong skills with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) 
• Experience with workflow orchestration / automation tools – Kestra is a strong plus 
• Very good practical knowledge of Grafana stack 
• Scripting & programming skills 
• Good German and very good English skills (documentation & communication mostly in English) 

• A mutually-supportive, international team
• Meaningful work with a lasting impact on medical technology
• 30 vacation days, plus December 24th and December 31st
• Flexible working hours as well as hybrid work model within Germany
• Bike leasing via cooperation partner "BikeLeasing"
• Parking garage and safe underground bike storage
• Award-winning subsidized company restaurant and in-house cafes
• Variety-rich fitness program in our ultra-modern 360m2 company gym
• Regular after work, team, and company events
• Comprehensive training and continuing education opportunities

Ready to apply? We look forward to receiving your online application including your first available start date and desired salary. 

Contact person: Leonie von Leoprechting