Sovereign Cloud Engineer (m/f/d)

VASPP; Deutschland; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

VASPP in Germany seeks an experienced Sovereign Cloud / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support secure, reliable, and continuous operation of cloud-native Kubernetes platforms.

You will join an experienced DevOps/SRE team, owning platform operations, automation, monitoring, incident management, security, and continuous improvement for a highly available Unified Observability Platform in a 24x7 environment.

Qualifikationen

• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud platforms.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD and IaC practices.
• Security-conscious with 24/7 operations.
• Proficiency in Python/Go scripting.

Aufgaben

• Operate and maintain Kubernetes clusters with Gardener.
• Triage incidents and ensure high availability.
• Optimize CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and ArgoCD.
• Develop automation tooling using Python/Go.
• Monitor observability with Prometheus and OpenTelemetry.

Kenntnisse

Kubernetes operations

Incident management

Automation scripting

Security mindset

Tools

Gardener

Helm

Jenkins

ArgoCD

Git

IaC

Python

Go

Bash

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Logstash

Kibana

ServiceNow

PagerDuty

Jobbeschreibung

Before You Apply – Mandatory Requirements

Due to the security requirements of the role, candidates must meet all of the following:

• Citizenship: Citizenship of a country that is a full member of both the EU and NATO. If you hold multiple citizenships, all must meet this requirement.
• Residence & Employment: Residence in Germany and direct employment through a German legal entity under a German employment contract and German labor law. Employment through foreign entities or subcontractors is not permitted.
• Security Clearance: A valid and verifiable Ü2 security clearance in accordance with the German Security Clearance Act (SÜG) is mandatory.

Overview

For our growing team, we are looking for an experienced Sovereign Cloud / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support the secure, reliable, and continuous operation of modern cloud-native and Kubernetes platforms.

You will work with an experienced DevOps/SRE team on highly secure, business-critical platforms, taking responsibility for platform operations, automation, monitoring, incident management, security, and continuous improvement.

The role focuses particularly on Kubernetes, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability, logging, and operational excellence within a highly available Unified Observability Platform in a 24x7 operational environment.

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

Key Responsibilities

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 IaC and Git-based deployment workflows.
• Develop automation and operational tools using Python, Go and/or Bash.
• Automate provisioning, health/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 and continuously improve monitoring and alerting.

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 and 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 RCA, support Major Incident Management (MIM) and implement sustainable corrective actions.
• Continuously improve platform stability, resilience and operational processes.