For its Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS) project funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK), the Open Source Business Alliance - Bundesverband für digitale Souveränität e.V. (OSB Alliance) is looking for a

Monitoring and Test Engineer (d/f/m)

(Remote or Berlin city centre)

We aim to fill this position as soon as possible.

The OSB Alliance - Bundesverband für digitale Souveränität e.V. represents over 200 member companies in the Open Source economy, which together generate more than 126 billion € annually in Germany. Together with scientific institutions and user organisations, the association works to anchor the central importance of open source software and open standards for a digitally sovereign society in public awareness. The OSB Alliance sees open source and open standards as a compelling basis for digital sovereignty, flexibility and security in the digital transformation and thus as the answer to one of the greatest challenges of our time.

With the Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS) project, the OSB Alliance is contributing to the realisation of the goals of the German government’s Digital Strategy 2025 and the European Gaia-X project by developing a next-generation open cloud infrastructure.

The project is driven by a small team in the OSB Alliance with multi-year funding from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK). The advertised position is part of this central team. In addition to this team, there are numerous developers from different companies and institutions in Europe who contribute to the project.

In this role, you will

• be part of a small central (remotely working) team that orchestrates the efforts to define, implement and validate (CI/CD) a stack of open source software,
• work with a cross-cultural and cross-company team of engineers that contribute to the effort,
• have the role to focus on ensuring the quality of developed and deployed infrastructure software (both virtualization and container layer) by creating automated tests and monitoring infrastructure,
• guiding the process to define requirements and specifications for those systems with our development and CSP partners where needed,
• take the lead in implementing test and monitoring software, collaborating with and guiding engineers from our partners (especially our CSPs),
• ensuring that the software is well integrated into our continuous integration and continuous monitoring systems,
• supporting the maintenance of systems used for continuous integration and for monitoring, including data collection, trending, alarming, visualization,
• documenting the solutions and supporting our partners to use them,
• work with the relevant open source communities, typically part of the CNCF, LF, OIF, contribute back upstream as suitable and present at relevant conferences.

We expect that you

• have several years of hands-on experience with open source tooling commonly used to help operators with life cycle management, updating, validating, monitoring, metering, logging, securing such environments,
• have advanced experience how test frameworks work and know how to set these up and add tests to them,
• have experience with working with open source projects,
• are used to work in the open, exposing your work in progress to a your team mates and a broader community, accepting criticism and willing to work on defining and refining the chosen approach in interaction with the community, building (lazy) consensus,
• are familiar with open source development tools and platforms such as Git, GitHub and the related workflows,
• have experience in using agile development methodologies,
• have strong analytical skills and a focus on high quality,
• are willing and able to present technology in meetings or on stage

We offer

• working in an open and inspiring environment, interacting with highly-skilled and driven individuals from the project, the partners and the relevant open-source communities
• contributing to a project that makes a difference by being instrumental for a vivid ecosystem of federated infrastructure providers in Europe and beyond
• being a key part of this important project
• working on open source infrastructure technology
• a lot of flexibility in how you organise your work and contribute to the internationally distributed team. This is a full time position; we try to be flexible with part-time needs.
• getting visibility by presenting the project to stakeholders and to the public on technology conferences
• an adequate compensation package

Get in touch with Kurt Garloff, Dirk Loßack or Manuela Urban via jobs[minus]scs[at]osb[minus]alliance[dot]com if you are interested and would like to know further details. We are looking forward to receive applications with application letter, CV and other relevant material from you!