Remote: Operations Expert; f​/m​/d focus Storage

For our client we are looking for a Storage Operations Expert (f/m/d).

Start: 01.07.2026

Duration: 31.12.2026++

Capacity: 100%

Location:

75% Remote, 25% Frankfurt (occasionally, sometimes Berlin)

1 week Frankfurt / 3 weeks remote in rotation, up to 50% onsite in peak times

Language:
English is a must (C1), German is a must (C1)

Team:
The local operations team for Germany is responsible for running a production platform in Germany which will host all productive business applications for Germany.

• Provide Tier-3 operational ownership for Storage Products for Local Production (DE)
• Ensure operational readiness for deployments
• Ensure operational stability and responsiveness for the managed Kubernetes platform
• Reduce operational toil and improve service reliability
• Ensure platform operations adhere to security and compliance standards

• 5+ years in IT storage operations / service delivery / platform operations with demonstrated leadership in mission critical environments.
• Proven experience implementing/leading Incident, Problem, Change, Release governance in production.
• Experience supporting platform workloads that rely on shared storage services.
• Storage types:
  File Storage, Block Storage, Object Storage from Netapp (Ontap)
• Protocols/services: NFS; object storage operations (S3-like concepts).
• Kubernetes storage integration: CSI driver concepts and troubleshooting (PV/PVC lifecycle understanding).
• Virtualization (Storage):
  Experience operating storage virtualization in enterprise environments.
• ITSM /
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Jira Service Management (JSM), Jira, Confluence.
• Fundamental understanding of core operations processes (incident management, change management, problem management, IT Service Management) as well as SRE concepts
• Experience in gathering operational insights from monitoring or observability including SLI/SLA/SLO management and tracking.
• Hand-on experience in documenting procedures properly and enforcing clear runbooks or playbooks.
• Observability Hands-on experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Mimir, Loki).
• Familiarity with enterprise Dev Ops tool chains is a plus (Git Lab, JFrog Artifactory, Backstage, Harness).
• Understanding of modern platform operations (Kubernetes/containers, automation, observability), sufficient to govern specialists.
• Platform delivery concepts:
  Git Ops and IaC awareness (Terraform/Open Tofu, ArgoCD, Helm) to govern deployment/readiness standards

• Experience operating in regulated / high-availability industries (banking, telco, public sector, healthcare).
• Experience with SRE practices (SLOs/SLIs, error budgets) and reliability management.
• Experience operating storage services that integrate with Kubernetes platforms.
• Familiarity with IaC-based provisioning and Git Ops-driven operational patterns.