L3 Storage Network Engineer

Senior Storage Operations Engineer (Germany)

• Location: Remote within Germany – must either reside in Germany or be willing to relocate.
• Citizenship: Must possess German or EU citizenship.
• Security: Existing German security clearance (e.g., Ü2) or eligibility to obtain it.
• Employment type: Full-time.

We’re seeking an experienced L3 Senior Storage Operations Engineer to enhance our mission‑critical environments. You’ll handle advanced incident troubleshooting, performance tuning, and operational excellence across modern storage platforms.

• Own L3 incident troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and problem management for storage services.
• Operate, optimize, and lifecycle‑manage enterprise storage platforms.
• Drive stability and resilience through automation, monitoring, and runbooks.
• Collaborate closely with the platform, Linux, Kubernetes, and network/security teams.
• Contribute to change/release processes and compliance within secured environments.

• Solid L3 experience in Storage Operations (production, environments).
• Experience with Ceph (RADOS, RBD, CephFS, CRUSH, pools/PGs, rebalancing, tuning) and/or deep incident/problem management (RCA, post‑mortems, runbooks).
• Scripting/automation for ops (e.g., Python, Bash, Ansible, REST/ONTAP/CSI where applicable).

• SAN/NAS protocols (iSCSI, NFS, SMB), zoning & multipathing.
• Performance tuning (latency, throughput, IOPS, caching) and capacity planning.
• Observability (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK), backup & DR design/runbooks.
• Experience in regulated/sovereign or high‑security environments.
• High‑impact role in critical infrastructure.
• Collaborative senior peer group, clear engineering ownership.
• Opportunity to shape standards, automation, and SLOs.

Send your CV (in English) to with reference number SOEDE
008.

Thank you!

T3 Team