Sovereign Cloud Engineer (m/w/d)

<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>Mandatory Requirements – Please Read Before Applying</strong></p> <p><strong>Citizenship</strong></p> <p>You must hold valid citizenship in a country that is a full member of both the <strong>European Union (EU) and NATO</strong>.</p> <p>If you hold multiple citizenships, <strong>all citizenships must be from countries that are members of both the EU and NATO.</strong></p> <p><strong>Employment in Germany</strong></p> <p>You must:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Be employed directly by a legal entity registered in Germany.</p> </li> <li> <p>Hold a German employment contract.</p> </li> <li> <p>Be subject exclusively to German labor law.</p> </li> <li> <p>Comply with all applicable German tax, social-security, and employment regulations.</p> </li> <li> <p>Reside in Germany.</p> </li> </ul> <p>**Employment through non-German entities, including foreign subcontractors or affiliates, does not meet this requirement.<br> **</p> <p><strong>Security Clearance – Ü2</strong></p> <p>You must hold a <strong>valid and verifiable Ü2 security clearance</strong> in accordance with the German Security Clearance Act (<em>Sicherheitsüberprüfungsgesetz – SÜG</em>) and applicable preventive personnel sabotage-protection requirements.</p> <h2>Tasks</h2> <p>Kubernetes &#x26; Platform Operations</p> <ul> <li>Operate and maintain Kubernetes clusters with Gardener, including workloads, deployments, Helm charts and platform components.</li> <li>Troubleshoot availability, performance and deployment issues.</li> <li>Ensure secure, scalable, resilient and highly available platforms.</li> </ul> <p>CI/CD &#x26; Automation</p> <ul> <li>Operate and optimize Jenkins and ArgoCD pipelines for automated deployments.</li> <li>Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Git-based deployment workflows.</li> <li>Develop automation and operational tools using Python, Go and/or Bash.</li> <li>Automate provisioning, health and compliance checks, alerting and reporting.</li> </ul> <p>Monitoring &#x26; Observability</p> <ul> <li>Manage Prometheus, Thanos and OpenTelemetry environments, including scrape jobs, alert rules and PromQL.</li> <li>Develop and maintain Grafana dashboards.</li> <li>Continuously improve monitoring and alerting capabilities.</li> </ul> <p>Logging &#x26; Log Management</p> <ul> <li>Operate and optimize Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Logstash and Kibana.</li> <li>Monitor log ingestion, storage, performance and reliability.</li> <li>Support centralized troubleshooting, anomaly detection, security and compliance.</li> </ul> <p>Integration &#x26; Operations</p> <ul> <li>Integrate observability and logging platforms with ServiceNow, PagerDuty and other enterprise tools via secure APIs.</li> <li>Handle operational requests.</li> <li>Participate in Scrum, DevOps and service-improvement activities.</li> <li>Collaborate with internal teams, SAP, suppliers and stakeholders.</li> </ul> <p>Incident &#x26; Problem Management</p> <ul> <li>Participate in a 24/7 on-call and shift rotation, including weekends and public holidays.</li> <li>Respond to platform, monitoring, logging and deployment incidents.</li> <li>Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA).</li> <li>Support Major Incident Management (MIM).</li> <li>Implement sustainable corrective actions.</li> <li>Continuously improve platform stability, resilience and operational processes.</li> </ul> <h2>Requirements</h2> <p>Key Technologies</p> <p>Kubernetes | Gardener | Helm | Jenkins | ArgoCD | Git | IaC | Python | Go | Bash | Prometheus | PromQL | Thanos | OpenTelemetry | Grafana | Elasticsearch | OpenSearch | Logstash | Kibana | ServiceNow | PagerDuty | REST APIs</p> <p>Technical Skills &#x26; Experience</p> <ul> <li>Proven experience as a <strong>Sovereign Cloud Engineer and/or Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)</strong>.</li> <li>Strong experience operating and maintaining <strong>Kubernetes clusters</strong>, ideally with Gardener.</li> <li>Hands-on experience with <strong>Kubernetes workloads, deployments, Helm charts and platform components</strong>.</li> <li>Experience troubleshooting <strong>availability, performance and deployment issues</strong>.</li> <li>Experience with <strong>Jenkins and ArgoCD</strong> for automated CI/CD deployments.</li> <li>Solid understanding of <strong>Infrastructure as Code (IaC)</strong> and Git-based deployment workflows.</li> <li>Programming or scripting experience with <strong>Python, Go and/or Bash</strong>.</li> <li>Experience with <strong>automation of provisioning, health checks, compliance checks, alerting and reporting</strong>.</li> <li>Hands-on experience with <strong>Prometheus, PromQL, Thanos and OpenTelemetry</strong>.</li> <li>Experience developing and maintaining <strong>Grafana dashboards</strong> and monitoring/alerting solutions.</li> <li>Experience with <strong>Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Logstash and Kibana</strong>.</li> <li>Understanding of <strong>log ingestion, storage, performance and reliability</strong>.</li> <li>Experience supporting <strong>centralized troubleshooting, anomaly detection, security and compliance</strong>.</li> <li>Experience integrating platforms with <strong>ServiceNow, PagerDuty and other enterprise tools via secure REST APIs</strong>.</li> <li>Experience with <strong>incident management, Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Major Incident Management (MIM)</strong>.</li> <li>Experience working in <strong>24/7 operational environments</strong>, including on-call and shift rotations.</li> <li>Strong understanding of <strong>platform security, scalability, resilience, reliability and high availability</strong>.</li> <li>Experience working in <strong>Scrum and DevOps environments</strong>.</li> <li>Strong collaboration skills and experience working with <strong>internal teams, SAP, suppliers and other stakeholders</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>Languages</p> <ul> <li><strong>English:</strong> Required</li> <li><strong>German:</strong> A plus</li> </ul> <h2>Benefits</h2> <p>What You Can Expect</p> <ul> <li>A technically challenging role within a <strong>highly secure and business-critical cloud environment</strong>.</li> <li>The opportunity to work with modern <strong>cloud-native, Kubernetes and observability technologies</strong>.</li> <li>An <strong>international working environment</strong> with teams and stakeholders across different locations.</li> <li>The opportunity to contribute to <strong>automation, platform reliability and continuous improvement</strong>.</li> <li>Remote / hybrid working possibilities within Germany.</li> </ul> <p>We Look Forward to Hearing from You</p> <p>Are you ready to bring your expertise to a challenging cloud engineering environment?</p> <p>We look forward to receiving your application and getting to know you.</p> <p>Find more <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.com/english-speaking-jobs">English Speaking Jobs in Germany</a> on Arbeitnow</a>