Senior Storage Network Engineer

Applicants must possess German or EU citizenship to be eligible for this position. Location: Remote within Germany – candidates must either reside in Germany or be willing to relocate.We are not accepting candidates with a resident card!Note: Candidates who do not meet the location, citizenship, or clearance eligibility requirements will not be considered due to project compliance requirements and will be rejected!IT means everything to us!At TH3RA, we deliver IT solutions that empower global businesses to achieve their digital ambitions. With deep expertise and a commitment to excellence, we support clients across industries in building resilient, scalable, and secure infrastructures.🚀 L3 Senior Storage Operations Engineer (Germany)Location: Germany - RemoteContract: Full-time (long-term engagement)Clearance: Existing German security clearance (e.g., Ü2) or eligibility to obtain itWe’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.What you’ll doOwn L3 incident troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and problem management for storage servicesOperate, optimize, and lifecycle-manage enterprise storage platformsDrive stability and resilience through automation, monitoring, and runbooksCollaborate closely with the platform, Linux, Kubernetes, and network/security teamsContribute to change/release processes and compliance within secured environmentsMust-have skillsSolid L3 experience in Storage Operations (production, environments)NetApp ONTAP (Clustered/C-mode): admin, troubleshooting, performance, snapshots/replication, quotas, export policiesOne of the following: Ceph (RADOS, RBD, CephFS, CRUSH, pools/PGs, rebalancing, tuning) and/orStrong Linux & Kubernetes (Day-2 ops, storage classes/CSI, PV/PVC, troubleshooting I/O & performance)Deep incident/problem management (RCA, post-mortems, runbooks)Scripting/automation for ops (e.g., Python, Bash, Ansible, REST/ONTAP/CSI where applicable)Fluent English (spoken & written)Eligibility & complianceBased in Germany (or willing to relocate)German or EU citizenship required due to clearance & contractual constraintsExisting German security clearance (e.g., Ü2) or clear path/eligibility to obtain itNice to haveSAN/NAS protocols (iSCSI, NFS, SMB), zoning & multipathingPerformance tuning (latency, throughput, IOPS, caching) and capacity planningObservability (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK), backup & DR design/runbooksExperience in regulated/sovereign or high-security environmentsWhy joinHigh-impact role in critical infrastructureCollaborative, senior peer group, and clear engineering ownershipOpportunity to shape standards, automation, and SLOs📨 How to apply: Send your CV (in English) to jobs@th3ra.com with ref: SOEDE008 or apply below.Note: Candidates who do not meet the location, citizenship, or clearance eligibility requirements cannot be considered due to project complianceThank you!T3 Team