{"id":53950,"title":"Sovereign Cloud Engineer (m/w/d)","company":"VASPP GmbH","city":"Walldorf","region":"Baden-Württemberg","location":"69190 Walldorf, Baden","work_model":"hybrid","employment_type":"full_time","employment":["full_time"],"roles":["devops"],"visa":"not_mentioned","relocation":"not_mentioned","posted_at":"2026-09-21T00:00:00+00:00","tools":["Kubernetes","Jenkins","Argo CD","Git","Infrastructure as Code","Python","Go","Bash"],"seniority":"unknown","years_experience_min":null,"german_requirement":"preferred","german_level":"unspecified","english_requirement":"required","english_level":"unspecified","team_language":"unknown","confidence":0.7,"method":"rules","language_badge":"German a plus","language_evidence":"German:   A plus","requirements_snippet":"Key Technologies Kubernetes | Gardener | Helm | Jenkins | ArgoCD | Git | IaC | Python | Go | Bash | Prometheus | PromQL | Thanos | OpenTelemetry | Grafana | Elasticsearch | OpenSearch | Logstash | Kibana | ServiceNow | PagerDuty …","url":"https://www.arbeitsagentur.de/jobsuche/jobdetail/10001-1003737705-S","source":"bundesagentur","agency":"recruiter","description_text":"For our growing team, we are looking for an experienced Sovereign Cloud / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support the secure, reliable, and continuous operation of modern cloud-native and Kubernetes platforms.\n\nYou will work with an experienced DevOps/SRE team on highly secure, business-critical platforms, taking responsibility for platform operations, automation, monitoring, incident management, security, and continuous improvement.\n\nThe role focuses particularly on Kubernetes, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability, logging, and operational excellence within a highly available Unified Observability Platform in a 24x7 operational environment.\n\n**Mandatory Requirements – Please Read Before Applying**\n\n**Citizenship**\n\nYou must hold valid citizenship in a country that is a full member of both the **European Union (EU) and NATO**.\n\nIf you hold multiple citizenships, **all citizenships must be from countries that are members of both the EU and NATO.**\n\n**Employment in Germany**\n\nYou must:\n\n- Be employed directly by a legal entity registered in Germany.\n- Hold a German employment contract.\n- Be subject exclusively to German labor law.\n- Comply with all applicable German tax, social-security, and employment regulations.\n- Reside in Germany.\n\n**Employment through non-German entities, including foreign subcontractors or affiliates, does not meet this requirement.**\n\n**Security Clearance – Ü2**\n\nYou must hold a **valid and verifiable Ü2 security clearance** in accordance with the German Security Clearance Act (*Sicherheitsüberprüfungsgesetz – SÜG*) and applicable preventive personnel sabotage-protection requirements.\n\n## Tasks\n\nKubernetes & Platform Operations\n\n- Operate and maintain Kubernetes clusters with Gardener, including workloads, deployments, Helm charts and platform components.\n- Troubleshoot availability, performance and deployment issues.\n- Ensure secure, scalable, resilient and highly available platforms.\n\nCI/CD & Automation\n\n- Operate and optimize Jenkins and ArgoCD pipelines for automated deployments.\n- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Git-based deployment workflows.\n- Develop automation and operational tools using Python, Go and/or Bash.\n- Automate provisioning, health and compliance checks, alerting and reporting.\n\nMonitoring & Observability\n\n- Manage Prometheus, Thanos and OpenTelemetry environments, including scrape jobs, alert rules and PromQL.\n- Develop and maintain Grafana dashboards.\n- Continuously improve monitoring and alerting capabilities.\n\nLogging & Log Management\n\n- Operate and optimize Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Logstash and Kibana.\n- Monitor log ingestion, storage, performance and reliability.\n- Support centralized troubleshooting, anomaly detection, security and compliance.\n\nIntegration & Operations\n\n- Integrate observability and logging platforms with ServiceNow, PagerDuty and other enterprise tools via secure APIs.\n- Handle operational requests.\n- Participate in Scrum, DevOps and service-improvement activities.\n- Collaborate with internal teams, SAP, suppliers and stakeholders.\n\nIncident & Problem Management\n\n- Participate in a 24/7 on-call and shift rotation, including weekends and public holidays.\n- Respond to platform, monitoring, logging and deployment incidents.\n- Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA).\n- Support Major Incident Management (MIM).\n- Implement sustainable corrective actions.\n- Continuously improve platform stability, resilience and operational processes.\n\n## Requirements\n\nKey Technologies\n\nKubernetes | Gardener | Helm | Jenkins | ArgoCD | Git | IaC | Python | Go | Bash | Prometheus | PromQL | Thanos | OpenTelemetry | Grafana | Elasticsearch | OpenSearch | Logstash | Kibana | ServiceNow | PagerDuty | REST APIs\n\nTechnical Skills & Experience\n\n- Proven experience as a **Sovereign Cloud Engineer and/or Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)**.\n- Strong experience operating and maintaining **Kubernetes clusters**, ideally with Gardener.\n- Hands-on experience with **Kubernetes workloads, deployments, Helm charts and platform components**.\n- Experience troubleshooting **availability, performance and deployment issues**.\n- Experience with **Jenkins and ArgoCD** for automated CI/CD deployments.\n- Solid understanding of **Infrastructure as Code (IaC)** and Git-based deployment workflows.\n- Programming or scripting experience with **Python, Go and/or Bash**.\n- Experience with **automation of provisioning, health checks, compliance checks, alerting and reporting**.\n- Hands-on experience with **Prometheus, PromQL, Thanos and OpenTelemetry**.\n- Experience developing and maintaining **Grafana dashboards** and monitoring/alerting solutions.\n- Experience with **Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Logstash and Kibana**.\n- Understanding of **log ingestion, storage, performance and reliability**.\n- Experience supporting **centralized troubleshooting, anomaly detection, security and compliance**.\n- Experience integrating platforms with **ServiceNow, PagerDuty and other enterprise tools via secure REST APIs**.\n- Experience with **incident management, Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Major Incident Management (MIM)**.\n- Experience working in **24/7 operational environments**, including on-call and shift rotations.\n- Strong understanding of **platform security, scalability, resilience, reliability and high availability**.\n- Experience working in **Scrum and DevOps environments**.\n- Strong collaboration skills and experience working with **internal teams, SAP, suppliers and other stakeholders**.\n\nLanguages\n\n- **English:** Required\n- **German:** A plus\n\n## Benefits\n\nWhat You Can Expect\n\n- A technically challenging role within a **highly secure and business-critical cloud environment**.\n- The opportunity to work with modern **cloud-native, Kubernetes and observability technologies**.\n- An **international working environment** with teams and stakeholders across different locations.\n- The opportunity to contribute to **automation, platform reliability and continuous improvement**.\n- Remote / hybrid working possibilities within Germany.","responsibilities_text":null,"requirements_text":"Key Technologies\nKubernetes | Gardener | Helm | Jenkins | ArgoCD | Git | IaC | Python | Go | Bash | Prometheus | PromQL | Thanos | OpenTelemetry | Grafana | Elasticsearch | OpenSearch | Logstash | Kibana | ServiceNow | PagerDuty | REST APIs\nTechnical Skills & Experience\n- Proven experience as a **Sovereign Cloud Engineer and/or Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)**.\n- Strong experience operating and maintaining **Kubernetes clusters**, ideally with Gardener.\n- Hands-on experience with **Kubernetes workloads, deployments, Helm charts and platform components**.\n- Experience troubleshooting **availability, performance and deployment issues**.\n- Experience with **Jenkins and ArgoCD** for automated CI/CD deployments.\n- Solid understanding of **Infrastructure as Code (IaC)** and Git-based deployment workflows.\n- Programming or scripting experience with **Python, Go and/or Bash**.\n- Experience with **automation of provisioning, health checks, compliance checks, alerting and reporting**.\n- Hands-on experience with **Prometheus, PromQL, Thanos and OpenTelemetry**.\n- Experience developing and maintaining **Grafana dashboards** and monitoring/alerting solutions.\n- Experience with **Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Logstash and Kibana**.\n- Understanding of **log ingestion, storage, performance and reliability**.\n- Experience supporting **centralized troubleshooting, anomaly detection, security and compliance**.\n- Experience integrating platforms with **ServiceNow, PagerDuty and other enterprise tools via secure REST APIs**.\n- Experience with **incident management, Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Major Incident Management (MIM)**.\n- Experience working in **24/7 operational environments**, including on-call and shift rotations.\n- Strong understanding of **platform security, scalability, resilience, reliability and high availability**.\n- Experience working in **Scrum and DevOps environments**.\n- Strong collaboration skills and experience working with **internal teams, SAP, suppliers and other stakeholders**.\nLanguages\n- **English:** Required\n- **German:** A plus","status":"open","duplicate_of":null,"first_seen":"2026-11-02T15:27:24.049289+00:00","responsibilities_summary":null,"requirements_summary":null,"all_tools":["Kubernetes","Jenkins","Argo CD","Git","Infrastructure as Code","Python","Go","Bash","Prometheus","OpenTelemetry","Grafana","Elasticsearch","OpenSearch","Logstash","Kibana","ServiceNow","PagerDuty","REST","SRE","Helm","CI/CD","Scrum","SAP"],"posting_language":"en","evidence":[{"language":"english","requirement":"required","quote":"English:   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