(Senior) Cloud Engineer / Kubernetes Networking - STACKIT (m/f/d)
Location:Heilbronn, DE
Department:IT - Cloud Services
Level:Experienced professionals
Reference number:47513
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.
As a dedicated STACKITEER, you are part of the STACKIT Products division. This is where our products and services are developed, tested and improved.
Your tasks
- You design and implement our managed Kubernetes Service, focusing on Gardener and Kubernetes Networking
- You take responsibility for the surrounding system landscape (e.g., Compute, Networking, Storage, APIs)
- You conceptualize and implement networking solutions for our platform, primarily using Kubernetes Controllers and Go
- You design scalable software architectures to continuously improve our service
- You analyze complex problems, perform root-cause analysis, and identify lasting solutions
Your profile
- You are passionate about new technologies related to Kubernetes, Linux, and Networking
- You have advanced programming experience, preferably in Go
- You have experience in the design and operation of distributed systems and with Software-Defined Networking (e.g., Istio, Calico, and Cilium)
- Ideally, you have already gained experience with the Kubernetes Operator Pattern, CI/CD tooling (e.g., Prow, Flux), and eBPF
- Your English, ideally combined with German, is the basis for successful communication in international, agile teams
Benefits
An independent Europe - digital, leading. If this vision inspires you as much as we do, let's build the sovereign cloud for it together.
You will become part of Europe's leading retail group, the Schwarz Group. As a STACKITEER, you will be part of the IT and digital division, Schwarz Digits. You benefit from the dynamism of a young company and the strength of the established group of companies behind Lidl and Kaufland.
We like to hear your ideas - at all levels: Duz culture and open doors make the work varied and productive. In doing so, we encourage thinking outside the box and working together in agile structures in order to jointly develop innovative solutions.
You will become part of an international team, because our STACKITEERs come from all over the world and form a real unit. We love and live the cloud. Everyone contributes their own strengths, and together we continuously improve our portfolio.
Our cloud solutions are based on open source technologies, which means we promote open standards in cloud development. With us, you can rely on innovative approaches, a supportive community and modern IT equipment.