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 multi-cultural cutting-edge team distributed across Europe. With headquarters 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 Hardware Engineer.
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
Job purpose:
The Hardware engineer plays a critical role in designing, deploying, and maintaining the physical infrastructure that powers our cloud services. The engineering team at Exoscale works on all aspects from designing & developing products, to their operation and support. The Hardware Engineer works at the intersection of hardware and software. With an expanding customer base and new products to further advance Exoscale’s product portfolio, Hardware Engineers ensures our data centers operate with maximum efficiency, reliability, and performance. As users of Exoscale itself,
Hardware Engineers also take active part in improving products This position focuses on specifying, designing and qualifying hardware for cloud data centers, including developping standards and hardware life cyle management.
Some of the challenges you will be working on:
- 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.
Ideal candidates:
- 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.
What we offer:
- Flexible working hours.
- Autonomous working conditions with a lot of freedom to create and challenge.
- Collaborative culture, working alongside talented engineers in a supportive environment.
- 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 are looking forward to your application!
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 the growing the Business Operations Team, Exoscale is recruiting a Datacenter & Cloud Infrastructure Capacity Planner - Business Operations to join our headquarter offices in Lausanne.
Job purpose:
We are looking for a commercially-minded and strategic Capacity Planner. This vital role is responsible for aligning our European data centre investments with customer demand and financial targets. You will develop and manage the end-to-end capacity plan for our server, storage, and network infrastructure, ensuring our strategy supports sustainable growth and operational excellence.
What you do:
- Business-Driven Demand Forecasting: Collaborate with Sales, Finance, and Product teams to translate commercial forecasts into a hardware demand plan designed to support revenue targets and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
- Investment & Supply Planning: Develop a comprehensive hardware capacity plan that ensures optimal capital investment and operational efficiency. Model and plan for data centre constraints, including space, power, and cooling.
- Hardware Lifecycle Management: Partner with Engineering and Supply Chain teams to manage the entire hardware lifecycle, from new technology evaluation and financial assessment through to deployment and end-of-life (EOL) strategies.
- Capacity Planning Process Leadership: Coordinate the monthly Capacity Planning cycle, presenting supply-demand scenarios, financial outlooks, and inventory risks to senior leadership. Provide clear recommendations that balance customer requirements with business objectives.
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Act as the primary integration point between commercial teams, finance, as well as the hardware engineering and data centre operations teams. Drive alignment on budgets, long-range plans, and execution schedules.
What you offer:
- A university degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Finance, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Significant experience in large scale hardware deployments and lifecycle management.
- 3-5 years of professional experience in capacity planning, supply chain management, or financial planning, preferably within the technology or telecommunications sector.
- A strong commercial and technical understanding of server architecture (compute, memory, storage) and the data centre environment.
- Proven analytical and quantitative skills, with advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and experience with data visualisation tools.
- Fluency in English is required.
What makes you unique:
- A higher education degree in a relevant discipline.
- Experience with advanced planning systems
- Experience developing business cases or financial models to support large-scale capital investments.
- Familiarity with data analysis using SQL, Python.
- Professional proficiency in another European language (e.g., German, French, Spanish) is highly advantageous.
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 are looking forward to your application!
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, developing and maintaining Exoscale’s core platform and security components.
Some of the challenges you will be working on:
- Design and maintain our core Linux-based platform ecosystem.
- Develop and manage our PKI, secrets management, and security systems.
- Contribute to internal platform tooling, automation, and orchestration development.
- Enhance the developer experience (DX) by delivering self-service systems and pipelines.
- Play a key role in the architecture and design of Exoscale’s platform systems.
- Improve processes to ensure scalability, security, and high availability.
- Participate in code and change reviews to maintain high development standards.
- Join the on-call rotation after completing a training period.
Ideal candidates are:
- Experienced with Linux, including networking and security filtering.
- Knowledgeable in platform security components and PKI systems (experience with HashiCorp Vault is a plus).
- Proficient in Golang (mandatory for this position).
- Familiar with service discovery and DNS systems at scale.
- Experienced in containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes is a plus).
- Comfortable working with KVM virtualization.
- Skilled in configuration management and large-scale infrastructure.
- Passionate about automation. You look for ways to optimize workflows and reduce manual effort.
- Team players who thrive in a distributed team environment.
- Curious, autonomous, and eager to learn new technologies every day.
- Strong communicators in English, both 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 are looking forward to your application!