Senior IT Systems Engineer

Brainlab is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to design, operate, and continuously improve the reliability and availability of their hybrid environments using VMware Cloud Foundation, Grafana, and Kubernetes. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with VCF, solid understanding of core VMware technologies, and strong skills with infrastructure as code and automation tools.

Requirements

• Design, operate, and continuously improve the reliability & availability of our VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) based platforms (on-prem and in interconnection with cloud environments)
• Manage and automate VMware landscapes (vSphere, NSX, vSAN, Aria Suite etc.) in large-scale hybrid/multi-cloud setups
• Implement and extend our observability stack based on Grafana
• 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

Benefits

• 30 vacation days, plus December 24th and December 31st
• Flexible working hours as well as hybrid work model within Germany
• Bike leasing via cooperation partner "BikeLeasing"
• Parking garage and safe underground bike storage
• Award-winning subsidized company restaurant and in-house cafes
• Variety-rich fitness program in our ultra-modern 360m2 company gym
• Regular after work, team, and company events
• Comprehensive training and continuing education opportunities