Exoscale is the leading Swiss/European cloud service provider.
With services covering the full cloud infrastructure spectrum - from fast deploying virtual machines to S3 compatible object storage - Exoscale provides a simple and scalable experience in order to let its clients focus on their core business.
Join a dynamic working environment with a cutting-edge distributed team based in Lausanne. Exoscale strives to create an environment with great working conditions and welcomes diverse applicants.
As part of its ongoing efforts to grow its infrastructure footprint Exoscale is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer.
The site reliability engineer plays a critical role in ensuring constant availability of the Exoscale platform. The engineering team at Exoscale works on all aspects from designing & developing products, to their operation and support.
With an expanding customer base and new products to further advance Exoscale's product portfolio, site reliability engineers build and maintain a wide range of technologies. As users of Exoscale itself, site reliability engineers also take active part in improving products.
This position focuses on designing and maintaining Exoscale's base systems and hypervisor internals including Layer 3 networking and security layers.
Some of the challenges you will be working on:
- Design and maintain Exoscale’s base operating systems and hypervisor fleets including their network stacks and security filtering layers.
- Contribute to the routing & security automation systems implementations.
- Help shape our image strategy, from bare metal to Virtual Machines.
- Maintain the system container runtimes.
- Improve our provisioning and deployment systems.
- Help improve bare metal and hypervisor systems performance.
- Contribute to the overall design and the architecture of the Exoscale platform systems.
- Contribute to internal tooling development.
- Improve our systems and processes to be scalable and highly available, helping achieve outstanding SLAs.
- Participate in code & changes reviews.
- Take part in the on-call roll after a training period.
Ideal candidates:
- Have a solid experience with Linux, its kernel and Systems.
- Are familiar with KVM virtualization.
- Are familiar with network routing and transport / encapsulation protocols: BGP, VXLAN and EVPN.
- Are at ease with routing daemons like FRR and Bird.
- Have a good knowledge of Linux filtering with iptables and nftables.
- Have a good knowledge of container runtimes.
- Are familiar with server hardware.
- Have experience with configuration management solutions and large scale infrastructure.
- Love to automate anything that could be.
- Are curious, autonomous and embrace learning new things everyday.
- Are team players and are comfortable working in a distributed team.
What we offer:
- Flexible working hours and working from home.
- Autonomous working conditions with a lot of freedom to create.
- Modern working atmosphere and centrally located office with great public transport connection.
- Team events as well as training and further education.
Candidates who are not familiar with all the topics above but willing to learn are encouraged to apply.
We look forward to receiving your application!
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