Exoscale

Hardware Engineer

Exoscale

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇨🇭 Switzerland

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Job Level

Junior

Tech Stack

AnsibleLinuxSwitchingTCP/IPTerraformUnix

About the role

  • Design and specify hypervisor and storage chassis and servers, as well as hardware configurations
  • Evaluate and qualify new hardware technologies and vendors for deployment at scale
  • Develop hardware standards and best practices
  • Plan and execute hardware refresh cycles and participate in capacity expansions
  • Analyze hardware utilization and performance data to optimize configurations
  • Monitor hardware performance, reliability metrics, and failure rates across the fleet
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex hardware issues in production environments
  • Coordinate with vendors, providers and manufacturers
  • Drive cost optimization initiatives through hardware lifecycle management
  • Collaborate with site reliability and software engineers to optimize hardware-software integration
  • Research emerging technologies and technology watch.

Requirements

  • Strong understanding of x86/ARM server architectures, memory hierarchies, and I/O systems
  • Experience working in large scale data center environments
  • Experience with hardware automation and monitoring tools
  • Experience with Linux/Unix operating systems and hardware management tools (IPMI, BMC, etc.)
  • Experience with Open Compute Project
  • Understanding of power and cooling systems in data centers, including liquid cooling
  • Familiarity with networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, routing, and switching
  • Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
  • 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.
Benefits
  • 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.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
hypervisor designstorage chassis configurationhardware standards developmenthardware refresh planninghardware utilization analysistroubleshooting hardware issuesx86 architectureARM architectureLinux operating systeminfrastructure-as-code
Soft skills
curiosityautonomyteam collaborationcommunication skills