Role overview

Qualifications

Solid experience with Linux and its kernel
Familiarity with Confidential Computing concepts
Knowledge of KVM virtualization
Experience with Golang and Python

Responsibilities

Design, development, and implementation of Confidential Computing at the hypervisor level
Maintain Exoscale’s operating systems and hypervisor fleets
Contribute to routing and security automation implementations
Participate in code changes reviews

Key facts

Remote from: Switzerland
Full time
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
English

Hard skills

Linux Trusted Computing KVM Switch Go (Programming Language) Containerization Python (Programming Language) Configuration Management Statement On Standards For Attestation Engagements (SSAE) Key Management Internal Documentation

Other skills

Teamwork
Communication

About the company

Exoscale

Exoscale is the leading Swiss/European cloud service provider. With services covering the full cloud infrastructure spectrum - from fast deploying virtual machines and S3 compatible object storage to a scalable kubernetes service and databases - Exoscale provides a simple and scalable experience in order to let its clients focus on their core business. Whether you're a seasoned system administrator or developer looking for full self-service capabilities and automation support, an IT manager looking for a turn-key IT hosting solution or looking to offload large processing tasks, Exoscale has the matching service. In one of the last countries allowing untampered data storage, our expert team, battle-hardened from experience in highly critical environments and industries will ensure your data and services are safe from technical or legal harm. Though we are proud of our Swiss quality and uphold its reputation we maintain very competitive prices. As a full-on cloud provider, all our services are pay-per-use and will let you scale both technically and financially as your business does. You're safe with us.

Company details

Company typeSME

Company size11 - 50

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Job description

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 implementing Exoscale's confidential computing product at the system level, working closely with product teams. It involves deep ownership of hypervisor internals, operating system stacks. The candidate will also take part in the evolution and maintenance of Exoscale's base systems.

Some of the challenges you will be working on:

- Design, development, and implementation of Confidential Computing at the hypervisor level.

- Design and maintain Exoscale’s operating systems and hypervisor fleets, from kernels to the network stacks, including security filtering layers.

- Contribute to the routing & security automation systems implementations.

- Help shape our operating system images strategy, from bare metal to Virtual Machines.

- Maintain and improve 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 rotation after a training period.

Ideal candidates:

- Have a solid experience with Linux, its kernel and Systems.

- Are familiar with Confidential Computing and related concepts, including hardware level ones (AMD SEV, Intel TDX, or equivalent).

- Are familiar with Secure Boot, chain of trust, attestation, key management.

- Are familiar with KVM virtualization.

- Have a good knowledge of eBPF.

- Have a good knowledge of container runtimes.

- Have a good experience with Golang, Python

- Have experience with configuration management solutions and large scale infrastructure.

- Love to automate anything that could be and inclined to write documentation.

- Are curious, autonomous and embrace learning new things every day.

- Are team players and are comfortable working in a distributed team.

- Have good English communication skills, written and spoken.

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!