PLATFORM ENGINEER – INFRA & OBSERVABILITY IN STACKIT CLOUD (m/f/d)
First seen by Alion on Nov 10, 2026. Schwarz Digits scores A on the Alion truth index.
You want to take the cloud world by storm with us STACKITEERs and shape the future of Europe with us? That’s great! Then STACKIT is the right place for you. Our vision is ambitious: An independent Europe – digital, leading. As a cloud and colocation provider, we are building the secure infrastructure for this. With our server locations exclusively in Germany and Austria, we offer both the Schwarz Group, to which we belong, and external customers a European alternative to international cloud providers and support our customers holistically with individual solutions.
As a dedicated STACKITEER, you are part of the STACKIT Products division. This is where our products and services are developed, tested and improved.
The impact you will create:
- Develop core monitoring frameworks and keep the cloud environment reliable.
- Design, manage, and improve the central observability stack: Grafana, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, OTEL and custom telemetry exporters.
- Process traces, logs, and metrics.
- Develop and maintain Kubernetes Operators for stateful services (MariaDB, Redis, and RabbitMQ).
- Manage central shared services, including the Harbor Container Registry.
- Automate and improve database operations, including backups, restores, and scaling.
- Own your features from end to end („You Build It, You Run It“).
Experience and skills you will need:
- Software development experience in Go or Python. You write clean, well-tested code.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes architecture.
- Experience with observability tools Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry.
- Good level of understanding of how stateful infrastructure works in an orchestrated environment like Kuberneters (MariaDB, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ).
- Knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
- Willingness to learn about Kubernetes Operators (Controller patterns, CRDs).
- A proactive mindset and good soft skills to collaborate in an international team.
- Fluent English.
- Bonus: Knowledge of OpenStack architecture, especially Keystone.
You will join the IaaS Domain. This domain helps develop the core infrastructure of the STACKIT cloud.
Our offer:
- An attractive remuneration package depending on your seniority.
- Variety of opportunities with one of the strongest and largest retail companies in the world.
- A huge array of tools & technologies available on the spot and ready for a steady personal development.
- Food vouchers, MultiSport card, additional health insurance, travel expenses and a modern office close to Paradise Mall.
- A good work-life balance with flexible working time & options for mobile work.
- A pleasant and diverse environment with regular events, team buildings and stimulating activities.
If you are interested in our offer, please send us your up to date resume in English. We want to know you!
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