about the role
Exoscale is a Swiss/European cloud provider headquartered in Lausanne with an engineering team spread across Europe. The Hardware Engineer specifies, qualifies and manages the server and storage hardware that underpins its cloud services, working closely with SRE and software engineers on the hardware-software interface.
what you will do
- Specify and design hypervisor and storage servers and their configurations
- Evaluate and qualify new hardware technologies and vendors for large-scale use
- Plan hardware refresh cycles and capacity expansions, and track fleet reliability
- Troubleshoot complex hardware problems in production
- Define hardware standards and drive cost optimisation over the lifecycle
requirements
Must have
- Good understanding of x86/ARM server architecture, memory and I/O subsystems
- Experience in large-scale data center environments
- Linux/Unix experience and hardware management tools such as IPMI and BMC
- Good written and spoken English and comfort in a distributed team
Nice to have
- Experience with the Open Compute Project and data center power/cooling incl. liquid cooling
- Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, routing, switching)
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or Ansible