Jobs at Exoscale (Now Hiring) — 7 open

Hardware Engineer (f/m/d)

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland · On-site

Mid level

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 si…

Skills: X86 Server Architecture, ARM Server Architecture, Data Center Infrastructure, Hardware Automation, Linux/Unix

Site Reliability Engineer - Confidential Computing (f/m/d)

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland · Remote OK

Mid level

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 si…

Skills: Linux Kernel, Systemd, Confidential Computing, AMD SEV, Intel TDX

Site Reliability Engineer - Confidential Computing (f/m/d)

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland · Remote OK

Senior

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 si…

Skills: Linux Kernel, Confidential Computing, AMD SEV, Intel TDX, Secure Boot

Site Reliability Engineer - Compute System & Network (f/m/d)

Húmera, Madrid Community, Spain · Remote OK

Mid level

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 si…

Skills: Linux, Kernel, Systemd, KVM, Network routing

Software Engineer - Core Compute (f/m/d)

Húmera, Madrid Community, Spain · Remote OK

Mid level

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 si…

Skills: Cloud infrastructure, Virtualization, KVM, UNIX, Distributed systems

Site Reliability Engineer - System & Network (w/m/d)

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland · Remote OK

Mid level

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 si…

Skills: Linux Kernel, KVM Virtualization, BGP, VXLAN, EVPN

Site Reliability Engineer - Core platform (f/m/d)

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland · Remote OK

Mid level

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 si…

Skills: Linux, Golang, PKI, HashiCorp Vault, Kubernetes

Hardware Engineer (f/m/d)

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland • On-site

Mid level

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Full-time
Flexible Working Hours, Autonomous Working Conditions, Collaborative Culture, Modern Working Atmosphere, Centrally Located Office, Team Events
Posted 9d ago
~40 hrs/week

Responsibilities

The Hardware Engineer is responsible for designing, specifying, and qualifying hardware for cloud data centers, including servers and storage chassis. They focus on optimizing hardware-software integration, managing lifecycle refreshes, and ensuring maximum efficiency and reliability of the physical infrastructure.

Requirements

Candidates should have a strong understanding of x86/ARM architectures and experience in large-scale data center environments. Proficiency with Linux, hardware management tools (IPMI/BMC), and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or Ansible is required.

Full job description

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!

Related keywords

Cloud InfrastructureHypervisorStorage ChassisHardware StandardsCapacity ExpansionHardware UtilizationReliability MetricsLiquid CoolingInfrastructure-as-Codex86ARMIPMIBMCOpen Compute ProjectTCP/IPRouting

About Exoscale

LinkedIn Visit site

Simple. Sovereign. Sustainable.

Industry: IT Services and IT Consulting
Company size: 51-200 employees
Founded: 2011
Headquarters: Lausanne, Vaud
LinkedIn followers: 6,375

Exoscale is a European sovereign cloud service provider offering a full range of infrastructure solutions, including virtual machines, S3-compatible object storage, scalable Kubernetes clusters, block storage, managed databases, GPUs and many more. The platform is designed for simplicity and flexibility, allowing users to deploy resources quickly and manage their cloud environments efficiently, whether through self-service tools or ready-made solutions for operational ease. Exoscale supports a wide range of users, from developers and system administrators seeking automation to IT managers needing reliable hosting or powerful compute capacity. With data centers located in Europe and strong data protection commitments, your data and services are safeguarded against technical issues and external legal risks. Exoscale combines quality with competitive, pay-per-use pricing, so you can scale resources and costs in step with your business growth.

Offices: Boulevard de Grancy, Lausanne, Vaud 1006, CH · Wattstr 11, Berlin, D-13355, DE

Cloud ComputingDatacenterIaaSHostingCloud StorageObject StorageKubernetesDBaaSBlock StorageGPUs

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About Exoscale

LinkedIn Visit site

Simple. Sovereign. Sustainable.

Industry: IT Services and IT Consulting
Company size: 51-200 employees
Founded: 2011
Headquarters: Lausanne, Vaud
LinkedIn followers: 6,375

Exoscale is a European sovereign cloud service provider offering a full range of infrastructure solutions, including virtual machines, S3-compatible object storage, scalable Kubernetes clusters, block storage, managed databases, GPUs and many more. The platform is designed for simplicity and flexibility, allowing users to deploy resources quickly and manage their cloud environments efficiently, whether through self-service tools or ready-made solutions for operational ease. Exoscale supports a wide range of users, from developers and system administrators seeking automation to IT managers needing reliable hosting or powerful compute capacity. With data centers located in Europe and strong data protection commitments, your data and services are safeguarded against technical issues and external legal risks. Exoscale combines quality with competitive, pay-per-use pricing, so you can scale resources and costs in step with your business growth.

Offices: Boulevard de Grancy, Lausanne, Vaud 1006, CH · Wattstr 11, Berlin, D-13355, DE

Cloud ComputingDatacenterIaaSHostingCloud StorageObject StorageKubernetesDBaaSBlock StorageGPUs

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