Network Engineer (w/m/d)

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 Network Engineer .

Platform 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, platform engineers build and maintain a wide range of technologies.

As users of Exoscale itself, platform engineers also take active part in improving products.

This position focuses on designing and maintaining Exoscale's datacenter core fabrics & edge networks.

Some of the challenges you will be working on :

• Design and maintain Exoscale’s networks, from core datacenter to edge via the of bound and VPN.
• Help improving our routing & security automation systems.
• Contribute to improve and maintain our network observability stacks.
• Contribute to our DDOS mitigation strategies.
• Improve our network provisioning and deployment systems & procedures.
• 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 to 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 Network Operating System (NOS) derivatives like Sonic and Cumulus
• Have hands-on experience on Juniper and Arista
• Are familiar with network routing and transport / encapsulation protocols : BGP, OSPF, VXLAN, EVPN, and MPLS
• Are at ease with routing daemons like FRR and BIRD.
• Have experience with VPN. IPSEC, Wireguard based.
• Have a good knowledge of Linux filtering with iptables and nftables.
• 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.
• 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 connections.
• Team events as well as training and further education.

We look forward to receiving your application!