System Engineer (all genders) Storage

You are passionate about scalable storage platforms, distributed systems, and cloud-native technologies? Object Storage and Ceph are not just technologies you work with-they are technologies you truly understand and enjoy developing further? You like solving complex infrastructure challenges, automating operations, and building highly available platforms that customers can rely on?.

Your mission - or, in other words: your tasks

• You design, implement, operate, and continuously improve highly available Object Storage platforms based on Ceph.
• You take ownership of the administration, monitoring, maintenance, and optimization of large-scale distributed storage environments.
• You ensure platform stability, performance, scalability, and security across our data center infrastructures.
• You analyze customer requirements and develop sustainable storage architectures for modern enterprise workloads.
• You automate operational and deployment processes to increase efficiency, reliability, and service quality.
• You perform capacity planning, performance analysis, and proactive optimization of storage environments.
• You troubleshoot complex technical issues and act as an escalation point for advanced storage-related incidents.
• You contribute to the development of technical concepts, standards, and best practices for our storage services.
• You create and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and knowledge base articles.
• You stay up to date with developments in Software-Defined Storage, Ceph, Object Storage, and cloud-native technologies and actively bring new ideas into our platform strategy.

Skills

What you bring to the table - besides the desire to make a difference

• You have completed a degree or vocational training in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a comparable field.
• You have several years of hands-on experience operating and administering enterprise storage environments.
• You possess strong expertise in Ceph, Object Storage technologies (S3-compatible platforms), and distributed storage architectures.
• You have experience with Linux-based systems and feel comfortable working in enterprise-scale environments.
• You understand concepts such as replication, erasure coding, high availability, disaster recovery, and storage performance optimization.
• You have experience with automation and infrastructure management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or similar technologies.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, container platforms, or cloud-native ecosystems is considered a strong advantage.
• You enjoy analyzing complex technical challenges and finding sustainable, pragmatic solutions.
• You work independently, take ownership of your responsibilities, and contribute actively within a collaborative team environment.
• You have a strong customer and service mindset and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• You are fluent in English, both written and spoken; German language skills are a plus.

What we offer

• We bring you on board, individually and with a personal mentor at your side.
• Your job with us is challenging, varied and independent, but never boring.
• We have flat hierarchies, a strong feedback culture and regular performance reviews.
• Do you have important private appointments? - No problem! Flexible working hours and the option to work remotely give you maximum flexibility.
• But would you prefer to work with like-minded people in the office? Height-adjustable desks, at least 2 monitors per workstation, space to meet, but also to retreat, are just some of the features of our state-of-the-art offices.
• We celebrate together and do sport together. Whether as a hobby or when taking part in amateur races - we are happy to sponsor you and your colleagues to take part in sporting events! You can get the necessary equipment for this in our company's own DATAGROUP store!
• We have also special leave days
• Company health insurance

Join our team! - IT's not a job! It's a mission!