- Location
Am Brauhaus 12
01099 Dresden
- Employment Area
IT - Cloud Services
- Level
Experienced professional
- Working Model
Full-time
- Reference ID
5113 Schwarz Digits creates the technological foundation for digital sovereignty in Europe. As the IT and digital division of the Schwarz Group, we develop and manage the IT infrastructures for the retail divisions Lidl and Kaufland, as well as Schwarz Production and PreZero. At the same time, we operate as an independent provider in the external market to support companies across Europe in their digital transformation. We bundle our core services in the areas of Cloud, Cyber Security, Data & AI, Communication, and Workspace.
Join us and contribute to digital sovereignty in Europe. With us, you will work at the intersection of agility and security: You will benefit from fast decision-making processes, enjoy genuine creative freedom in your projects, and be able to build upon the stable foundation of the Schwarz Group.
Join our engineering team in Dresden to drive digital sovereignty and build next-generation cloud infrastructure at scale.
As a Software Development Engineer, you will operate at the intersection of software engineering, cloud architecture, and infrastructure automation:
Your Tasks
- Next Generation Cloud Architecture: Design and advise on the next generation of our cloud and virtualization technology.
- Cloud System Architecture: Design, build, and operate resilient, highly scalable cloud services and underlying IaaS/PaaS components.
- Automation & Infrastructure as Code: Implement and maintain infrastructure provisioning using code-driven workflows (IaC).
- Control Plane & Microservices: Design and develop custom Kubernetes operators, controllers, and RESTful/gRPC APIs to control cloud resource lifecycles.
- Advise Management on technology strategy: Help to develop our technology roadmap
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): Participate in performance optimization, capacity planning, fault recovery, and incident management to maintain high availability guarantees.
- Agile Collaboration: Work closely in cross-functional DevOps/DevSecOps teams with Cloud Architects, Security Engineers, and Product Owners.
Your Profile
- Must have
- Educational Background: Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or equivalent practical experience.
- Software Development: 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong proficiency in C, C++, Go (Golang), Python, or Rust for infrastructure-level programming.
- Cloud Architecture & Networking: Solid understanding of core networking protocols (TCP/IP, BGP, DNS, HTTP/2), Load Balancing, Ingress Controllers, and Service Meshes (e.g., Istio, Cilium).
- DevOps & CI/CD: Mastery of modern CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD) and GitOps principles.
- Language Skills: Business fluent in English (oral and written); German skills are a plus.
- Nice to have
- Experience with open-source cloud management platforms such as OpenStack (Nova, Neutron, Cinder) or Ceph distributed storage.
- Cloud security fundamentals (IAM, zero-trust network design, encryption at rest and in transit).
- Active contributions to open-source cloud-native projects (e.g., CNCF ecosystem).
Your contact
Heiko Kiefer
Recruiter
- E-Mail:recruiting@mail.schwarz
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