Job
- Level
- Senior
- Location
- Cologne
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Job Field
- IT, DevOps, Back End
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
Job Summary
In this role, you develop our OpenStack-based cloud infrastructure and automate processes using Ansible, Terraform, and Kubernetes, while also integrating AI technologies into operations.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- You support us in further developing, operating, and industrializing OVHcloud's on-premise cloud platform.
- As part of a small, experienced team, you will work on our OpenStack-based infrastructure as well as the Kubernetes and GitOps stack that powers our customer-oriented cloud platform.
- AI-assisted engineering is an integral part of our daily engineering practice - from spec-driven development and agentic coding workflows to incident response and automation.
- The platform is actively being developed, giving you direct influence on architecture, automation strategy, and the use of AI in platform engineering.
- As a senior, you take ownership of your topics and shape your professional focus according to your strengths—with an emphasis on automation, compute lifecycle, platform engineering, and AI substrate.
- You design and develop our OpenStack-based on-premise cloud infrastructure with the goal of deploying and operating complete cloud environments in a highly automated manner on Bare Metal.
- You develop and operate Infrastructure as Code with Ansible and Terraform, as well as our Kubernetes and GitOps workflows with FluxCD / ArgoCD - supported by LLMs, agentic workflows, and automated testing and review processes.
- You are responsible for the lifecycle of our compute infrastructure - from bare metal, firmware, and provisioning to hypervisors and virtual compute nodes.
- This includes, among other things, patching, migrations, host evacuations, capacity rebalancing, and automating a stable platform operation.
- You develop our AI substrate and our self-healing strategy further — from structured knowledge bases and agentic workflows for incident triage and capacity planning to the incremental automation of today's runbooks.
- You design tests for non-regression, performance, and security, document and package solutions, and continuously improve the platform based on telemetry, operational experiences, and user feedback.
- As a Senior Engineer, you are the technical contact and sparring partner for colleagues around Automation, Platform Engineering, and AI Tooling.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- You have already managed compute infrastructure end-to-end - from firmware/BIOS rollouts, bare-metal provisioning, and hardware diagnostics to hypervisors, migrations, host evacuations, graceful drains, and capacity rebalancing.
- AI-assisted engineering is already part of your daily work.
- You work independently, bring a strong ownership mindset, and enjoy not only operating things but continuously improving them.
- At the same time, you are happy to share your knowledge and can clearly communicate complex technical contexts.
- We work in an international environment in English.
- You therefore feel confident discussing, documenting, and collaboratively advancing technical topics in English.
Experience
- You bring several years of practical experience as an SRE, Platform Engineer, or DevOps Engineer in operating productive infrastructure and have solid experience with OpenStack, Kubernetes, and Linux, including on Bare Metal.
- You are proficient in Ansible, Terraform, and GitOps workflows such as FluxCD or ArgoCD, and have experience in operating automated processes in a stable and reproducible manner in production environments.
- You have experience with Go and/or Python as well as with Claude Code, Cursor, Aider, or comparable agentic coding environments.
- Observability, Networking, Compute Tuning, Auto-Remediation, Security-critical Infrastructures, and Multi-Site Cloud Environments are also part of your technical expertise.
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What we offer
- A platform in real Build Mode with plenty of creative freedom, visible influence on architectural decisions, and an experienced senior team where autonomy and ownership matter.
- AI-augmented engineering as a core part of our way of working.
- Exceptional team spirit across all departments and borders - we live #OneTeam.
- Exciting tasks in a highly innovative and international environment with cutting-edge technologies.
- 32 vacation days.
- Flexible working hours, home office options, and a secure, permanent position with market- and performance-oriented compensation.
- Employer-funded retirement plan and an attractive insurance package.
- OVHcloud covers 50% of the costs for public transportation.
- Up to €400 annual subsidy for sports activities, such as gym memberships or sports courses.
- Attractive discounts at numerous shops and companies through Corporate Benefits.
- We participate in the leasing of your cargo bike.
- Regular company events as well as free cold and hot beverages.
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About Your Employer
gridscale GmbH
gridscale ist ein europäischer IaaS- und PaaS-Anbieter und schafft mit seiner innovativen Technologie die Basis für anspruchsvolle Cloud-Lösungen. Das Unternehmen mit Hauptsitz in Köln bietet zukunftsorientierten und digital ausgerichteten Nutzern mit seiner hochautomatisierten Architektur eine Lösung, in der sie flexibel zwischen einer Vielzahl an Infrastructure-as-a-Service-Komponenten sowie komplementären Platform-as-Service-Elementen wählen können.
Description
- Founding Year
- 2014
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Internet, IT, Telecommunication
Site Reliability Engineer - Openstack
- Location
- Cologne
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
