At the forefront of health technology for over 35 years, Munich-based Brainlab digitizes medical workflows, from diagnosis to therapy, to offer clinicians and patients better treatment possibilities. Our innovative digital ecosystem forms the basis for modern healthcare technology in 4000 hospitals in 120 countries.
Our key to success is our creative, talented and hard-working team, which consists of around 2000 dedicated and inspiring individuals in 25 locations worldwide. To succeed in reaching our targets, we are seeking committed colleagues who can stand behind our core values curious, authentic and useful.
Job DescriptionWe are looking for an experienced Senior Systems Engineer who feels comfortable at the intersection of classical on-premises infrastructure and modern cloud-native technologies. You will be responsible for the reliability, automation and observability of our hybrid environments – with a strong focus on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), Observability using the Grafana, Kubernetes cluster management, and automation workflows.
Your main responsibilities
- 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
- Very good hands-on experience with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) – ideally including recent versions (5.x / 9.x)
- Solid understanding of core VMware technologies: vSphere, NSX, vSAN
- Practical experience operating and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters
- Good knowledge of container ecosystem concepts
- Strong skills with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
- Experience with workflow orchestration / automation tools – Kestra is a strong plus
- Very good practical knowledge of Grafana stack
- Scripting & programming skills
- Good German and very good English skills (documentation & communication mostly in English)
- A mutually-supportive, international team
- Meaningful work with a lasting impact on medical technology
- 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
Ready to apply? We look forward to receiving your online application including your first available start date and desired salary.
Contact person: Leonie von Leoprechting
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What We Do
Brainlab is a digital medical technology pioneer founded in 1989 and headquartered in Munich. The company employs more than 2000 people in 25 locations around the globe. Brainlab serves physicians, medical professionals and their patients in over 6000 hospitals in 121 countries. Brainlab creates software-driven medical solutions that digitize, automate and optimize clinical workflows for neurosurgery, spine, trauma, craniomaxillofacial (CMF), general and vascular surgery as well as radiotherapy and radiosurgery. Core products center around surgical navigation, radiotherapy, digital operating room integration, and information and knowledge exchange. The Brainlab open framework operating system will allow third parties to develop medical applications to further advance the field of spatial computing and mixed reality. Brainlab is dedicated to creating an impact in healthcare. The company connects opportunities from emerging digital technologies to transform healthcare at scale and help improve the lives of patients worldwide.
