Cloud Infrastructure SRE Engineer - STACKIT (m/w/x) in Heilbronn

About Schwarz Digits

Schwarz Digits schafft das technologische Fundament für digitale Entscheidungsfreiheit in Europa. Als IT- und Digitalsparte der Schwarz Gruppe entwickeln und verantworten wir einerseits die IT-Infrastrukturen für die Handelssparten Lidl und Kaufland sowie die Schwarz Produktion und PreZero. Gleichzeitig agieren wir als unabhängiger Anbieter am externen Markt, um Unternehmen in ganz Europa bei ihrer digitalen Transformation zu unterstützen. Unsere Kernleistungen bündeln wir in den Bereichen Cloud, Cyber Security, Data & AI, Communication und Workspace. Trage auch du zur digitalen Entscheidungsfreiheit in Europa bei.

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Your Responsibilities

• You are part of the Infrastructure-as-a-Service Site-Reliability-Engineering (IaaS SRE) team and support the development of a high-performance cloud platform based on OpenStack with a focus on scaling and expansion across data centers and national borders.
• You continuously operate and optimize technical processes through efficient automation and further development in the programming languages Golang and/or Python.
• You are responsible for and optimize the provision of bare metal resources from various manufacturers based on OpenStack Ironic and internal and/or open-source-based tools.
• You operate and manage the surrounding Linux-based system landscapes (e.g., Kubernetes, Proxmox) and ensure the high availability of our cloud infrastructure.
• You create and maintain documentation and ensure the implementation and maintenance of monitoring and logging (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack) for stable platform operation.
• You are part of a motivated team that constantly strives for improvements and continuously develops itself (and the products).

What we're looking for

• You have the passion and enthusiasm for new technologies and topics related to Linux, automation, virtualization, and networking.
• You actively drive the improvement of availability and scaling and strive to automate process flows.
• You are capable of analyzing and solving technical problems and have experience in conducting root cause analyses.
• You have several years of experience in the implementation and management of Kubernetes environments, including deployment and scaling.
• You have several years of experience in software development, including build and release management, and convince us with your programming experience, especially in Python and/or Golang.