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 LGTM Stack, Kubernetes cluster management, and automation workflows.

• Design, operate and continuously improve the reliability & availability of our VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) based platforms (on-prem and in interconnection with cloud environments)
• Implement and extend our observability stack based on Grafana LGTM
• Manage and automate VMware landscapes (vSphere, NSX, vSAN, Aria Suite etc.) in large-scale hybrid/multi-cloud setups
• 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
• Collaborate closely with development teams, platform teams and security to enable self-service capabilities and fast, safe releases
• Participate in on-call rotation