Our client in Berlin is looking for a Storage Expert M/W to integrate its teams responsible for running the production platform of EDP in Germany which will host all productive business applications for Germany.

As a Stroage Expert M/W your tasks will be: * Objective: Ensure operational readiness for deployments Tasks: • Validation of deployment artifacts from an operations perspective. • Defining and enforcing quality assurance measures (e.g. required documentation of standard operation procedures, successful test reports, …) to ensure the high quality of delivered products and services. • Ensuring rollback strategies and operational monitoring (observability) are in place for production deployments. * Objective: Ensure operational stability and responsiveness for the managed Kubernetes platform Tasks: • Monitoring system health, performance metrics, and service availability across multi-tenant environments. • Identifying, analyzing, and resolving incidents, minimizing service disruption. • Triggering root cause analysis and implementation of corrective and preventive actions. * Objective: Reduce operational toil and improve service reliability Tasks: • Address recurring operational issues by automating remedial standard operations processes • Validate all automated procedures following the established software development lifecycle including staging, testing, and validation reviews * Objective: Ensure platform operations adhere to security and compliance standards Tasks: • Implementing monitoring and logging strategies to support audit and compliance requirements. • Performing routine security scans and remediating identified vulnerabilities.

The contractor must be a senior level professional with proven experience in: * Must-have experience • 5+ years in IT storage operations / service delivery / platform operations with demonstrated leadership in missioncritical environments. • Proven experience implementing/leading Incident, Problem, Change, Release governance in production. • Experience supporting platform workloads that rely on shared storage services. • Storage types: File Storage, Block Storage, Object Storage from Netapp (Ontap) • Protocols/services: NFS; object storage operations (S3-like concepts). • Kubernetes storage integration: CSI driver concepts and troubleshooting (PV/PVC lifecycle understanding). • Virtualization (Storage): Experience operating storage virtualization in enterprise environments. • ITSM / Collaboration: Jira Service Management (JSM), Jira, Confluence. • Fundamental understanding of core operations processes (incident management, change management, problem management, IT Service Management) as well as SRE concepts • Experience in gathering operational insights from monitoring or observability including SLI/SLA/SLO management and tracking. • Hand-on experience in documenting procedures properly and enforcing clear runbooks or playbooks. • Observability Hands-on experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Mimir, Loki). • Familiarity with enterprise DevOps toolchains is a plus (GitLab, JFrog Artifactory, Backstage, Harness). • understanding of modern platform operations (Kubernetes/containers, automation, observability), sufficient to govern specialists. • Platform delivery concepts: GitOps * Must-have language skills: • Proficiency in both speech and writing in English (at least C1). • Proficiency in both speech and writing in German (at least C1). * Preferred experience (Nice to have) • Experience operating in regulated / high-availability industries (banking, telco, public sector, healthcare). • Experience with SRE practices (SLOs/SLIs, error budgets) and reliability management. • Experience operating storage services that integrate with Kubernetes platforms. • Familiarity with IaC-based provisioning and GitOps-driven operational patterns.

Starting date: From 29/06 Duration: 3 months renewable Location: Berlin (4 to 5 days per month on site)

Rodolphe Szymczak Talent Community Specialist Infrastructure & Cloud +33 7 57 91 43 37 [email protected]