Exoscale is the leading Swiss/European cloud service provider, offering a full spectrum of cloud infrastructure services - from instantly deployable virtual machines to S3-compatible object storage. Our mission is to deliver a simple, scalable cloud experience that enables our customers to focus on what they do best. We’re a distributed team headquartered in Lausanne, driven by a culture of openness, technical excellence, and collaboration. We value diversity and strive to provide an inclusive, flexible, and empowering work environment. As part of our ongoing infrastructure expansion, Exoscale is hiring a Network Automation Engineer to help scale and operate our European network. This is a hands-on engineering position focused on the design, automation, and reliability of Exoscale’s network—spanning from the edge and core fabrics down to the operating system level. You’ll work closely with a team of platform engineers who are not only building and running the infrastructure, but also using and improving our own cloud products. You’ll also collaborate with team leads who take part in both technical delivery and project/team management. Your work will directly impact the availability, performance, and evolution of our platform. We’re looking for engineers who are passionate about automation and infrastructure, and who enjoy solving complex problems at scale. You likely have: We’re excited to meet you - apply now and help us build the future of European cloud infrastructure.About the Role
What You’ll Be Working On
- Design, build, and maintain Exoscale’s European network infrastructure—including core fabrics, edge routers, out-of-band networks, and VPNs.
- Improve routing and security automation tooling.
- Enhance and support our network observability and monitoring stack.
- Contribute to our DDoS mitigation strategies and systems.
- Develop and maintain automated network provisioning and deployment workflows.
- Collaborate on the architecture and design of Exoscale’s infrastructure and internal tools.
- Drive scalability and high availability improvements across systems and processes.
- Participate in code reviews and infrastructure change reviews.
- Join the on-call rotation (after a training period).About You
- Solid experience with Linux and NOS derivatives like SONiC or Cumulus.
- Hands-on experience with Juniper and Arista devices.
- Good knowledge of routing and encapsulation protocols (BGP, OSPF, VXLAN, EVPN).
- Familiarity with routing daemons like FRR and BIRD.
- Experience with VPN technologies, including IPsec and WireGuard.
- Proficiency in Linux firewalling with iptables and nftables.
- Programming skills in Go and Python.
- Experience with large-scale infrastructure and configuration management tools.
- An understanding of or interest in network observability.
- A curious and autonomous mindset, with a strong learning orientation.
- Strong communication skills in English, both written and spoken.
- Comfort working in a distributed and collaborative team environment.What We Offer
- A high degree of autonomy and creative freedom.
- A modern work environment with centrally located offices and excellent public transport access.
- Ongoing learning opportunities, training, and team events.
Work at Exoscale
Working at Exoscale
Join a dynamic working environment with a cutting-edge team based in Lausanne or remote. Exoscale strives to create a flexible environment with great working conditions and welcomes diverse applicants.
We encourage a healthy work-life balance, value input from our team and help everyone grow professionally. Open source is a large foundation of our platform and we encourage and sponsor contributions to existing or new projects.
We participate in global communities, through our attendance and sponsorship of conferences as well as in local events. We value community, fostering and building a great tech scene in our area.
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Exoscale is the leading Swiss/European
cloud service provider.
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 designing and maintaining Exoscale’s base systems and hypervisor internals including Layer 3 networking and security layers. Some of the challenges you will be working on: - Design and maintain Exoscale’s base operating systems and hypervisor fleets including their network stacks and security filtering layers. - Contribute to the routing & security automation systems implementations. - Help shape our image strategy, from bare metal to Virtual Machines. - Maintain the system container runtimes. - Improve our provisioning and deployment systems. - Help improve bare metal and hypervisor systems performance. - 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 achieve outstanding SLAs. - Participate in code & changes reviews. - Take part in the on-call roll after a training period. Ideal candidates: - Have a solid experience with Linux, its kernel and Systemd. - Are familiar with KVM virtualization. - Are familiar with network routing and transport / encapsulation protocols: BGP, VXLAN and EVPN. - Are at ease with routing daemons like FRR and Bird. - Have a good knowledge of Linux filtering with iptables and nftables. - Have a good knowledge of container runtimes. - Are familiar with server hardware. - 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. 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!