Senior IT Systems Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Senior Systems Engineer who feels comfortable at the intersection of classical on-premises infrastructure and modern cloud-native technologies. You will be responsible for the reliability, automation and observability of our hybrid environments - with a strong focus on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), Observability using the Grafana LGTM Stack, Kubernetes cluster management, and automation workflows.

Your main responsibilities

• Design, operate and continuously improve the reliability & availability of our VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) based platforms (on-prem and in interconnection with cloud environments)
• Implement and extend our observability stack based on Grafana LGTM
• Manage and automate VMware landscapes (vSphere, NSX, vSAN, Aria Suite etc.) in large-scale hybrid/multi-cloud setups
• Build, operate and scale Kubernetes clusters, including day-2 operations, upgrades, capacity management and security hardening
• Develop and maintain automation workflows primarily using Kestra (in conjunction with other tools such as Ansible, Terraform)
• Drive incident response, post-mortem culture, error budgets and toil reduction according to SRE principles
• Collaborate closely with development teams, platform teams and security to enable self-service capabilities and fast, safe releases
• Participate in on-call rotation

Do you have experience in vSphere?, * Very good hands-on experience with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) - ideally including recent versions (5.x / 9.x)

• Solid understanding of core VMware technologies: vSphere, NSX, vSAN, Aria Operations / Aria Automation
• Practical experience operating and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters (preferably 1-4 years)
• Good knowledge of container ecosystem concepts
• Strong skills with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
• Experience with workflow orchestration / automation tools - Kestra is a strong plus
• Very good practical knowledge of Grafana LGTM stack
• Scripting & programming skills
• Understanding of hybrid cloud architectures (on-prem public cloud connectivity patterns)
• Familiar with SRE principles (SLI/SLO, error budgets, toil reduction, blameless post-mortems)
• Good German and very good English skills (documentation & communication mostly in English)

At the forefront of health technology for over 35 years, Munich-based Brainlab digitizes medical workflows, from diagnosis to therapy, to offer clinicians and patients better treatment possibilities. Our innovative digital ecosystem forms the basis for modern healthcare technology in 4000 hospitals in 120 countries. Our key to success is our creative, talented and hard-working team, which consists of around 2000 dedicated and inspiring individuals in 25 locations worldwide. To succeed in reaching our targets, we are seeking committed colleagues who can stand behind our core values curious, authentic and useful.