Sovereign Cloud Engineer (m/w/d)

You must:

• Be employed directly by a legal entity registered in Germany.

• Hold a German employment contract.

• Be subject exclusively to German labor law.

• Comply with all applicable German tax, social-security, and employment regulations.

• Reside in Germany.

**Employment through non-German entities, including foreign subcontractors or affiliates, does not meet this requirement.

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Kubernetes & Platform Operations

• Operate and maintain Kubernetes clusters with Gardener, including workloads, deployments, Helm charts and platform components.

• Troubleshoot availability, performance and deployment issues.

• Ensure secure, scalable, resilient and highly available platforms.

CI/CD & Automation

• Operate and optimize Jenkins and ArgoCD pipelines for automated deployments.

• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Git-based deployment workflows.

• Develop automation and operational tools using Python, Go and/or Bash.

• Automate provisioning, health and compliance checks, alerting and reporting.

Monitoring & Observability

• Manage Prometheus, Thanos and OpenTelemetry environments, including scrape jobs, alert rules and PromQL.

• Develop and maintain Grafana dashboards.

• Continuously improve monitoring and alerting capabilities.

Logging & Log Management

• Operate and optimize Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Logstash and Kibana.

• Monitor log ingestion, storage, performance and reliability.

• Support centralized troubleshooting, anomaly detection, security and compliance.

Integration & Operations

• Integrate observability and logging platforms with ServiceNow, PagerDuty and other enterprise tools via secure APIs.

• Handle operational requests.

• Participate in Scrum, DevOps and service-improvement activities.

• Collaborate with internal teams, SAP, suppliers and stakeholders.

Incident & Problem Management

• Participate in a 24/7 on-call and shift rotation, including weekends and public holidays.

• Respond to platform, monitoring, logging and deployment incidents.

• Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA).

• Support Major Incident Management (MIM).

• Implement sustainable corrective actions.

• Continuously improve platform stability, resilience and operational processes.

Key Technologies

Kubernetes | Gardener | Helm | Jenkins | ArgoCD | Git | IaC | Python | Go | Bash | Prometheus | PromQL | Thanos | OpenTelemetry | Grafana | Elasticsearch | OpenSearch | Logstash | Kibana | ServiceNow | PagerDuty | REST APIs

Technical Skills & Experience

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• Solid understanding of

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What You Can Expect

• A technically challenging role within a

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• The opportunity to work with modern

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• The opportunity to contribute to

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• Remote / hybrid working possibilities within Germany.

We Look Forward to Hearing from You

Are you ready to bring your expertise to a challenging cloud engineering environment?

We look forward to receiving your application and getting to know you.

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