For our costumer, we are looking for a Storage Expert (m/w/d).

Capacity: Full- oder part time possible

Mainly remote

Start: Mai 2026

End: December 2026 + possible Extension

Tasks:

- Provide Tier-3 operational ownership for Storage Products

- Support and ensuring operational Readiness

- Monitoring, Incident, Problem and Change Management in the specific context of providing Compute & Operating System

- Reduce operational toil and improve service reliability

- Security and Compliance Enforcement

Requirements:

The contractor must be a senior level professional with proven experience in operations management of private cloud

solutions, proficiency in managing storage operations on the platform with following experience:

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.

- Expertise with storage types: File Storage, Block Storage, Object Storage.

- Expertise with protocols/services: NFS; object storage operations (S3-like concepts).

- Experience with kubernetes storage integration: CSI driver concepts and troubleshooting (PV/PVC lifecycle

understanding).

- Virtualization (Storage): Experience operating storage virtualization in enterprise environments.

- Expertise within ITSM: 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).

- Strong understanding of modern platform operations (Kubernetes/containers, automation, observability), sufficient

to govern specialists.

- Platform delivery concepts: GitOps and IaC awareness (Terraform/OpenTofu, ArgoCD, Helm) to govern

deployment/readiness standards.

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

- 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.