(SENIOR) TEST ARCHITECT CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE (GO / PYTHON ) - STACKIT (m/f/d)
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 8, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 3, 2026.
Make an amazing climb in your career in an international team of experts. Our company provides technological services for the whole Schwarz group of more than 30 countries in Europe and the US. Our vision is to be the leading ecosystem for a better life. We built the European sovereign cloud STACKIT. With XM Cyber we set new standards in differing cyber crimes. We run AI better than anyone. With us you will find a variety of opportunities to grow and do your best at your calling - IT. We exist to improve life with our products and services - for today's generation and future generations. We act future proof!
The impact you will create:
Holistic Test Strategy: Design, implement, and govern a comprehensive testing strategy across all IaaS products encompassing unit, integration, stage/smoke, system, live system, acceptance, configuration, disaster & recovery, and performance testing.
Infrastructure Test Engineering: Build robust, reusable automated test primitives and scaffolding specifically for OpenStack, Kubernetes, and distributed API backend/middleware.
Automated Release Gating: Integrate automated test reporting deep into our development and release workflows. Ensure every code change is automatically attested, verified, and gated before it can be deployed to production.
Shift-Left & CI/CD Optimization: Restructure test execution to shift testing earlier in the development lifecycle and dependency chain. Improve pipeline performance while maximizing meaningful code coverage.
Reliability & Performance: Drive product quality by ensuring defects are caught before they reach staging, and validate the performance limits of our infrastructure components under load.
Experience and skills you will need:
You have extensive, senior-level experience as a Test Architect, SDET, or Backend Engineer designing testing architectures for complex, highly distributed systems or cloud environments & infrastructure.
Excellent programming skills in Golang and Python for building our test automation.
Deep, hands-on expertise in testing backend systems, specifically targeting Linux, Kubernetes, OpenStack, and complex REST/gRPC APIs.
Proven track record of defining overarching strategies that cover the full testing pyramid.
Strong understanding of CI/CD methodologies, infrastructure-as-code, and building systems that can automatically attest to the safety and readiness of production deployments.