Senior OpenStack Engineer
About the role
Senior OpenStack Engineer :
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Our client, a leading Swiss technology company, is looking for an experienced Senior OpenStack Engineer to join its cloud infrastructure team. This is an opportunity to play a key role in designing, operating, and evolving a large-scale OpenStack platform that supports critical enterprise services.
Your Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and operate the company's OpenStack platform.
- Architect and optimize OpenStack Compute, Storage, and Networking services.
- Automate deployments and operational processes using Ansible, OpenTofu, and related tools.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure issues at 2nd and 3rd level.
- Collaborate closely with infrastructure and engineering teams.
- Provide technical leadership on architecture and technology decisions.
- Drive continuous improvements in cloud infrastructure, automation, and platform reliability.
Your Profile:
- Degree in Computer Science or an equivalent technical qualification.
- Several years of experience designing and operating OpenStack environments.
- Strong expertise in Linux administration and container technologies.
- Hands-on experience with automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible and Infrastructure as Code.
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, networking, and storage technologies.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Fluent German (C1 level) and good English.
- Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation.
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English: required
• Fluent German (C1 level) and good English
German: required
• Fluent German (C1 level) and good English
Workload: unclear from the available text
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