(Senior) Site Reliability Engineer - STACKIT Control Plane (m/f/d)

Black Digits creates the technological foundation for digital freedom of choice in Europe. As an IT and digital division of the Schwarz Group, we develop and manage the IT infrastructures for the Lidl and Kaufland trade divisions as well as the Black Production and PreZero. At the same time, we act as an independent provider on the external market to support companies across Europe in their digital transformation. We bundle our core services in the areas of cloud, cyber security, data & AI, communication and workspace. You also contribute to the digital freedom of choice in Europe.

With us you work at the interface between agility and security: You benefit from the fast decision-making, enjoy real design spaces in your projects and build on the stable foundation of the Schwarz Group.

You work closely with the development teams to shorten the “Time-to-Detect” by improving our monitoring and alerting infrastructure and ensuring compliance with SLOs. Your work is crucial for the continuous optimization of time-to-centering; This is achieved by creating clear playbooks, the design of dashboards for First Responder and ensuring comprehensive telemetry data (logs and metrics). You act as a reliability consultant for the development teams, transfer knowledge about reliability batteries and support the “Shift Left” approach to establish a model of shared responsibility. You design and optimise development processes such as CI/CD pipelines to support progressive delivery strategies (e.g. Canary Releases and Blue/Green Deployments) and roll out updates safely and with little risk. You proactively analyze the scalability of the Control Plane and fix bottlenecks in areas such as Distributed Consensus, Database throughput and Kernel Level Networking. You participate in a remunerated on-call rotation, guide Incident Responses and moderate Post-Mortems as well as Root Cause analyses.

An independent Europe - digital, leading. If this vision enthuses you as much as we do, let us build the sovereign cloud together. You will be part of the leading trading group in Europe, the Black Group, which is part of the IT and digital division, Black Digits. You will benefit from the dynamics of a young company and the strength of the established group of companies behind Lidl and Kaufland. We like to hear your ideas - and this at all levels: Duz culture and open doors make the work varied and productive. We promote the view over the rim of the plate and cooperation in agile structures to develop innovative solutions together.

You become part of an international team, because we come from all over the world and form a real unity. We love and live the cloud. Everyone brings its own strengths, and together we continuously improve our portfolio. You will be attractively rewarded, enjoys 30 days of vacation, are timely and locally flexible and benefit from a variety of strong sports, mobility and health services. We also promote your personal and professional development with individual training opportunities. In addition, you will receive a car for private use incl. Tank card. Our cloud solutions are based on open source technologies, which promotes open standards in cloud development. With us you can rely on innovative approaches, a supportive community and a modern IT equipment. .