Full-Time Senior Backend Engineer OTC

The Public Cloud Portfolio Unit operates on a national and international level, for medium-sized and large companies. We develop, market and operate agile, cloud-native, forward-looking products and services for the digital world. We see ourselves as innovation drivers and make our customers' business fit for the digital future. Our mission: Together with our customer, shaping the safest, easiest and most efficient transformation to a digitized and cloud-native future.

Your Department

We run Open Telekom Cloud! Open Telekom Cloud is a public cloud standard product based on open source community software and driven by principles of DevSecOps. Lean structures, agile methods, highly motivated teams and an extremely dynamic business environment determine our actions. With this customer-oriented and agile orientation, we are the anchor point for the Public Cloud business in Deutsche Telekom Group.

We are measured by delivering a secure, stable and innovative platform. We work jointly with our platform partner and other partners out of the OpenStack ecosystem to create a highly innovative public cloud product based on European security and data protection standards.

We are looking for people who are professionals and evangelists with a great deal of enthusiasm for cloud technology and who are up to the challenges created by the development and operation of a hyper-scale public cloud.

We offer a unique insight into how a large public cloud works under the hood, intercultural teamwork, flat hierarchies, and an independent working-style.

Your Tasks

As "Backend Engineer OTC" you understand the latest developments in cloud and container technology. You will enhance our Open Telekom Cloud Database Services in a customer-oriented manner.

Do you like?

• Solve complex problems in the daily operation of a hyper-scaler's cloud backend.
• Work hardware-oriented at the console and use both command line and web console.
• Develop and operate monitoring and quality assurance tools for Database Services
• Consistently automate with common automation frameworks.
• Work in a team of specialists where everyone helps each other in an open and trusting manner.

Your Profile 

• Completed studies in a technical, engineering or scientific subject or comparable professional training.
• 5-7 years of professional experience in IT with a focus on modern cloud technologies.
• Very good knowledge of Database Solutions in Cloud (Relational and NoSQL as well)
• Good knowledge of infrastructure, network, hardware, storage, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS.
• Extensive knowledge in infrastructure automation.
• Strong experience in Linux and network related services.
• High level of customer focus.
• Driving new feature deployment and problem solving to enable higher customer satisfaction
• Knowledge of agile development processes.
• Ability to assess technical solutions and come up with creative approaches.
• OpenStack and programming experience in open source projects is a plus.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.