Job Description

We’re seeking an experienced L3 Senior Storage Operations Engineer to enhance our mission-critical environments. You’ll handle advanced incident troubleshooting, performance tuning, and operational excellence across modern storage platforms.

What you’ll do

Own L3 incident troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and problem management for storage services Operate, optimize, and lifecycle-manage enterprise storage platforms Drive stability and resilience through automation, monitoring, and runbooks Collaborate closely with the platform, Linux, Kubernetes, and network/security teams Contribute to change/release processes and compliance within secured environments

Must-have skills

Solid L3 experience in Storage Operations (production, environments) NetApp ONTAP (Clustered/C-mode): admin, troubleshooting, performance, snapshots/replication, quotas, export policies One of the following: Ceph (RADOS, RBD, CephFS, CRUSH, pools/PGs, rebalancing, tuning) and/or Strong Linux & Kubernetes (Day-2 ops, storage classes/CSI, PV/PVC, troubleshooting I/O & performance) Deep incident/problem management (RCA, post-mortems, runbooks) Scripting/automation for ops (e.g., Python, Bash, Ansible, REST/ONTAP/CSI where applicable) Fluent English (spoken & written)

Eligibility & compliance

Based in Germany (or willing to relocate) German or EU citizenship required due to clearance & contractual constraints Existing German security clearance (e.g., Ü2) or clear path/eligibility to obtain it

Nice to have

SAN/NAS protocols (iSCSI, NFS, SMB), zoning & multipathing Performance tuning (latency, throughput, IOPS, caching) and capacity planning Observability (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK), backup & DR design/runbooks * Experience in regulated/sovereign or high-security environments