Storage Expert (m/f/d) - full or part time

For our costumer, we are looking for a Storage Expert (m/f/d). Capacity: Full or part time possible Mainly remote Start: May 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 mission-critical 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 (eg, 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.