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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!\n\nThe impact you will create:\n\nOwn the Valkey/SQLServer Integration: You will lead the technical design, architecture, and integration of our Valkey(and Redis-compatible)/SQLServer managed service into our sovereign cloud ecosystem.\n\nAutomation & DBaaS: You will drive the automation of deployment, replication, backup, and patching processes, turning complex caching infrastructure into a seamless „self-service“ model controlled via Golang-based REST/gRPC APIs.\n\nSystem Design & Scale: You will design robust, highly available, and fault-tolerant caching solutions, proactively optimizing configurations and capacity to scale with customer demand.\n\nEnd-to-End Ownership: We live by „You build it, you run it.“ You will accompany your services from the first line of code through Kubernetes orchestration to incident analysis (Post-Mortems).\n\nTechnical Leadership: You will guide the technical direction of the product and mentor team members, raising the bar for engineering excellence and modern SRE practices.\n\nExperience and skills you will need:\n\nPassion for Cloud & Data: You are eager to help shape Europe’s digital sovereignty and bring deep experience with database technologies and cloud environments.\n\nDatabase Expert: You have profound knowledge in the operation and design of relational (e.g., PostgreSQL) and/or NoSQL databases, as well as topics such as high availability, replication, and backup strategies.\n\nSoftware Engineering Skills: You are proficient in development with Golang and have experience in building APIs (REST, gRPC) to control infrastructure.\n\nContainer-Native: You are highly familiar with containerized system landscapes, ideally with experience in Kubernetes Operators for database orchestration.\n\nAutomation & Tooling: You are able to write Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) and feel at home in the monitoring ecosystem (Prometheus, Grafana).\n\nAnalytical Thinking: Troubleshooting of your service, complex performance bottlenecks and processing incidents within the framework of problem management are exciting challenges for you.\n\nCommunication: Your excellent communication skills in German and English enable smooth cooperation within our international, agile teams.\n\nMust Haves:\n\nDeep understanding and architecture of Caching databases (Redis / Valkey) including HA setups, backup, restore, replication\n\nKubernetes, Container and Operators\n\nIaC\n\nGuiding the team to a success\n\nGolang\n\nAPI Design\n\nMentoring\n\nSRE Knowledge\n\nNice to Have:\n\nObservability\n\nSecurity\n\nPerformance Tuning\n\nOur offer:\n\nAn attractive remuneration package depending on your seniority.\n\nVariety of opportunities with one of the strongest and largest retail companies in the world.\n\nA huge array of tools & technologies available on the spot and ready for a steady personal development.\n\nFood vouchers, MultiSport card, additional health insurance, travel expenses and a modern office close to Paradise Mall.\n\nA good work-life balance with flexible working time & options for mobile work.\n\nA pleasant and diverse environment with regular events, team buildings and stimulating activities.\n\nYour application will be reviewed in strict confidentiality. Approved candidates will receive a notification via email about a registration in our company recruiting system and then be contacted for an interview. By applying for our job openings and by providing your personal data you explicitly agree with our Privacy Policy here: https://schwarz-digits.de/en/privacy-policy?hidebanner=true\n\nYour data will be processed for the purpose of recruiting and for the purpose of possible signing of a labor contract. Your data will be stored and processed by „Schwarz Global Services Bulgaria” EOOD. Please have in mind that with this you give permission for your resume to be shared with other parties of the Schwarz Group.\n\nSome are still thinking. 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