Senior System Engineer (m/f/d) – Storage & Backup
What this role is about and who we are looking for
As a Senior System Engineer, you take on a key technical role in the further development of our storage platforms. You justify technical decisions in a sustainable and comprehensible way and enjoy sharing your knowledge and helping colleagues grow professionally.
Your Tasks
- Planning, design and further development of our enterprise storage infrastructure (incl. technical concepts, architecture decisions and operating standards), as well as operation, engineering and lifecycle management of our NetApp environments
- Analysis and optimization of performance, capacity, availability and data security
- Execution of migrations, upgrades and storage-related infrastructure projects
- Support with complex incidents, root-cause analyses and problem management
- Standardization and automation of recurring operational processes, as well as further development of monitoring, alerting and observability concepts
- Assessment of existing storage workloads and evaluation of complementary or replacement storage technologies (e.g. Ceph, S3-compatible object storage, ZFS or distributed file systems)
Your Profile
- Several years of experience in the operation, design and lifecycle management of enterprise storage solutions
- In-depth know-how in the NetApp ecosystem (ONTAP, NAS/SAN, SnapMirror, MetroCluster, highly available storage architectures), as well as with storage protocols such as NFS, SMB/CIFS and iSCSI
- Solid knowledge of Linux-based environments, virtualization platforms and modern data center infrastructures
- Understanding of high availability, replication, backup/recovery concepts and disaster recovery
- Experience in automation, e.g. with Ansible, Python, Bash or comparable tools
- Knowledge of complementary storage technologies such as Ceph, S3-compatible object storage or ZFS-based platforms is an advantage
Our Benefits
We are more than just a workplace. Therefore, we offer our employees many benefits (which partly depend on your position and location): good transport connections and flexible working hours. Period. Not to mention further training, a mentoring program, free parking, a mobile phone and notebook, snacks and drinks, company cars, employee events, a fun corner, ...
