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 team leader .
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 global network at various levels : from the edge to the end operating system via the core fabrics. Team leaders at Exoscale focus on many different aspects including people & team management, project management and technical delivery. Team leaders at Exoscale are expected to contribute on day to day and project technical tasks.
Some of the challenges you will be working on :
- Lead a small team of seasoned network engineers.
- Design and maintain Exoscale’s networks, from the edge to the end operating system via the core fabrics , the out of bound and VPNs.
- 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 previous team lead experience.Have a solid experience with Linux & its Network Operating System (NOS) derivatives like Sonic and CumulusHave hands-on experience on Juniper and AristaAre familiar with network routing and transport / encapsulation protocols : BGP, OSPF, VXLAN, EVPNAre 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 a good experience with Golang, PythonHave experience with configuration management solutions and large scale infrastructure.Have an affinity for network observabilityLove 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!