Sovereign Cloud Engineer (m/w/d)

For our growing team, we are looking for an experienced Sovereign Cloud / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support the secure, reliable, and continuous operation of modern cloud-native and Kubernetes platforms.

You will work with an experienced DevOps/SRE team on highly secure, business-critical platforms, taking responsibility for platform operations, automation, monitoring, incident management, security, and continuous improvement.

The role focuses particularly on Kubernetes, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability, logging, and operational excellence within a highly available Unified Observability Platform in a 24x7 operational environment.

Mandatory Requirements – Please Read Before Applying

Citizenship

You must hold valid citizenship in a country that is a full member of both the European Union (EU) and NATO .

If you hold multiple citizenships, all citizenships must be from countries that are members of both the EU and NATO.

Employment in Germany

You must:

• Be employed directly by a legal entity registered in Germany.
• Hold a German employment contract.
• Be subject exclusively to German labor law.
• Comply with all applicable German tax, social-security, and employment regulations.
• Reside in Germany.

Employment through non-German entities, including foreign subcontractors or affiliates, does not meet this requirement.
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Security Clearance – Ü2

You must hold a valid and verifiable Ü2 security clearance in accordance with the German Security Clearance Act (Sicherheitsüberprüfungsgesetz – SÜG) and applicable preventive personnel sabotage-protection requirements.

Tasks

Kubernetes & Platform Operations

• Operate and maintain Kubernetes clusters with Gardener, including workloads, deployments, Helm charts and platform components.
• Troubleshoot availability, performance and deployment issues.
• Ensure secure, scalable, resilient and highly available platforms.

CI/CD & Automation

• Operate and optimize Jenkins and ArgoCD pipelines for automated deployments.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Git-based deployment workflows.
• Develop automation and operational tools using Python, Go and/or Bash.
• Automate provisioning, health and compliance checks, alerting and reporting.

Monitoring & Observability

• Manage Prometheus, Thanos and OpenTelemetry environments, including scrape jobs, alert rules and PromQL.
• Develop and maintain Grafana dashboards.
• Continuously improve monitoring and alerting capabilities.

Logging & Log Management

• Operate and optimize Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Logstash and Kibana.
• Monitor log ingestion, storage, performance and reliability.
• Support centralized troubleshooting, anomaly detection, security and compliance.

Integration & Operations

• Integrate observability and logging platforms with ServiceNow, PagerDuty and other enterprise tools via secure APIs.
• Handle operational requests.
• Participate in Scrum, DevOps and service‑improvement activities.
• Collaborate with internal teams, SAP, suppliers and stakeholders.

Incident & Problem Management

• Participate in a 24/7 on‑call and shift rotation, including weekends and public holidays.
• Respond to platform, monitoring, logging and deployment incidents.
• Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Support Major Incident Management (MIM).
• Implement sustainable corrective actions.
• Continuously improve platform stability, resilience and operational processes.

Requirements

Key Technologies

Kubernetes | Gardener | Helm | Jenkins | ArgoCD | Git | IaC | Python | Go | Bash | Prometheus | PromQL | Thanos | OpenTelemetry | Grafana | Elasticsearch | OpenSearch | Logstash | Kibana | ServiceNow | PagerDuty | REST APIs

Technical Skills & Experience

• Proven experience as a Sovereign Cloud Engineer and/or Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) .
• Strong experience operating and maintaining Kubernetes clusters , ideally with Gardener.
• Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes workloads, deployments, Helm charts and platform components .
• Experience troubleshooting availability, performance and deployment issues .
• Experience with Jenkins and ArgoCD for automated CI/CD deployments.
• Solid understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Git-based deployment workflows.
• Programming or scripting experience with Python, Go and/or Bash .
• Experience with automation of provisioning, health checks, compliance checks, alerting and reporting .
• Hands‑on experience with Prometheus, PromQL, Thanos and OpenTelemetry .
• Experience developing and maintaining Grafana dashboards and monitoring/alerting solutions.
• Experience with Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Logstash and Kibana .
• Understanding of log ingestion, storage, performance and reliability .
• Experience supporting centralized troubleshooting, anomaly detection, security and compliance .
• Experience integrating platforms with ServiceNow, PagerDuty and other enterprise tools via secure REST APIs .
• Experience with incident management, Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Major Incident Management (MIM) .
• Experience working in 24/7 operational environments , including on-call and shift rotations.
• Strong understanding of platform security, scalability, resilience, reliability and high availability .
• Experience working in Scrum and DevOps environments .
• Strong collaboration skills and experience working with internal teams, SAP, suppliers and other stakeholders .

Languages

• English: Required
• German: A plus

Benefits

What You Can Expect

• A technically challenging role within a highly secure and business‑critical cloud environment .
• The opportunity to work with modern cloud-native, Kubernetes and observability technologies .
• An international working environment with teams and stakeholders across different locations.
• The opportunity to contribute to automation, platform reliability and continuous improvement .
• Remote / hybrid working possibilities within Germany.

We Look Forward to Hearing from You

Are you ready to bring your expertise to a challenging cloud engineering environment?

We look forward to receiving your application and getting to know you.