For our client we are looking for a Storage Operations Expert (f/m/d).

 

Start: 01.07.2026

Duration: 31.12.2026++

Capacity: 100%

Location: 75% Remote, 25% Frankfurt (occasionally, sometimes Berlin)

1 week Frankfurt / 3 weeks remote in rotation, up to 50% onsite in peak times

Language: English is a must (C1), German is a must (C1)

 

Team:

The local operations team for Germany is responsible for running a production platform in Germany which will host all productive business applications for Germany.

 

Tasks:

- Provide Tier-3 operational ownership for Storage Products for Local Production (DE)

- Ensure operational readiness for deployments

- Ensure operational stability and responsiveness for the managed Kubernetes platform

- Reduce operational toil and improve service reliability

- Ensure platform operations adhere to security and compliance standards

 

Skills (must-have):

- 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 and IaC awareness (Terraform/OpenTofu, ArgoCD, Helm) to govern deployment/readiness standards

 

Skills (should-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.