Site Reliability Engineer - PaaS (w/m/d)

Site Reliability Engineer - PaaS (w/m/d)

Location: Lausanne, Switzerland or remote in Europe

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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 Kubernetes internal PaaS and managed service ecosystem delivery. A range of topics are covered: tooling development, platform development and maintenance, application delivery pipelines and more.

Some of the challenges you will be working on:

- Design, maintain and operate both Exoscale's internal PaaS and Exoscale’s public managed service offering (SKS) based on the Kubernetes ecosystem.

- Help improve the developer experience (DX) through the delivery of self-service systems and pipelines.

- Improve and develop our application delivery CI and CD pipelines based on Argo CD.

- Contribute to the 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 proven solid experience with Kubernetes design, management and troubleshooting.

- Have a solid experience in dealing with Linux on a daily basis.

- Are familiar with IaC (infrastructure as code) tooling like Terraform.

- Have experience with Golang programming language, Python and Clojure a plus.

- Have a good knowledge of security concepts and PKI infrastructure.

- Are familiar with common application operation topics such as CI/CD systems and runtime environments.

- 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. 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!