Job Description
Exoscale is the leading Swiss/European cloud service provider.
We offer a simple and scalable experience to let our clients focus on their core business.
Our dynamic working environment welcomes diverse applicants based in Lausanne.
We are hiring a Network Engineer team leader as part of our ongoing efforts to grow our infrastructure footprint.
The platform engineering team works on all aspects from designing & developing products, to their operation and support.
We have an expanding customer base and new products to further advance our product portfolio.
Platform engineers build and maintain a wide range of technologies, including those used by Exoscale itself.
This position focuses on designing and maintaining Exoscale's global network at various levels.
Team leaders focus on people & team management, project management and technical delivery.
They 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, out of bound and VPNs.
* Help improve routing & security automation systems.
* Contribute to improve and maintain network observability stacks.
* Contribute to DDOS mitigation strategies.
* Improve network provisioning and deployment systems & procedures.
* Contribute to the overall design and architecture of the Exoscale platform systems.
* Contribute to internal tooling development.
* Improve 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 Cumulus.
* Have hands-on experience on Juniper and Arista.
* Are familiar with network routing and transport / encapsulation protocols: BGP, OSPF, VXLAN, EVPN.
* 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 a good experience with Golang, Python.
* Have experience with configuration management solutions and large scale infrastructure.
* Have an affinity for network observability.
* Loveto 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.