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In this role, you will take responsibility for the operation and further development of our hosting platform, including virtualization, storage, networking, and monitoring, while collaborating closely with various teams.
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Your role in the team
- We are looking for a Platform Engineer (all genders) to start as soon as possible in a full-time, permanent position.
- We embrace a remote-first approach, but you can choose whether you'd like to work in a hybrid model or entirely on-site, depending on your proximity to one of our locations.
- The availability and performance of our platform are of the utmost importance to our customers' satisfaction.
- These systems form the foundation of Contabo's most important products, which is why the smooth operation of the environment has a direct and immediate impact on the company's success.
- To keep our systems running and our customers satisfied, you'll take responsibility for the operation and further development of our hosting platform—from Proxmox/KVM virtualization to storage (ZFS, Ceph) and networking, all the way through to monitoring and observability.
- You will serve as the technical escalation point for our Platform Support team, analyze complex issues to their root cause, and ensure that problems do not recur.
- You will use Ansible and Git for automation, plan and oversee maintenance, upgrades, and migrations, and contribute to capacity and hardware planning—for example, when introducing new hardware generations or setting up new locations.
- You will be responsible for your own domain of the platform, make well-informed design decisions, and document them in a transparent manner.
- You will actively share your knowledge with the team.
- In doing so, you'll work closely with Platform, Support, Dev, Network, and Security to solve problems together and drive improvements.
- Since our teams and data centers are spread across the globe, part of your work will also be conducted in English.
Our expectations of you
Education
- training as an IT specialist in system integration, a degree in computer science, or a comparable qualification and experience
Qualifications
- Your personality, combined with:
- Self-motivation and a proactive approach: You contribute ideas, document decisions clearly, and enjoy sharing your knowledge with others
- Enjoy working with other teams and working independently
- Sehr gute Deutsch- und Englischkenntnisse
Experience
- several years of professional experience (at least 5 years) in the operation or development of large-scale Linux and virtualization environments
- solid hands-on experience with Linux (troubleshooting, performance), Proxmox/KVM or comparable virtualization technologies, Ansible, and monitoring solutions (e.g., Zabbix, Prometheus/Grafana)
- Ideally, experience with ZFS and/or Ceph, networking fundamentals (BGP, L3 routing, VLAN, Open vSwitch), Git/CI, and scripting in Bash or Python
- A plus: Terraform, Kubernetes, Vault, PowerDNS, or experience in a hosting/cloud environment
Benefits
Work-Life-Integration
Health, fitness & fun
Food & drink
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About your employer
Contabo is an innovative hosting company specializing in server and cloud solutions. Our data centers in Munich and Nuremberg are equipped with over 7,000 dedicated servers, and we have over 40,000 customers worldwide. We have been growing steadily since our founding in 2003 and we want to continue expanding through continuous innovation.
- Established Company
- Onsite, Hybrid, Full Remote
- Internet, IT, Telecommunication
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