System Engineer – Managed Kubernetes
Leaseweb is looking for a System Engineer to join our Container Services team. The Container Services Team delivers our Managed Kubernetes service to our customers.
The Product Engineering Department
Our team of approximately 90 engineers is working in small scrum teams. Each team has end to end responsibility for a specific product or part of our architecture. We work on a remote-first basis, coming together in person at our Amsterdam headquarters twice a year.
Our organizational structure is flat, placing a high value on independence and entrepreneurship. The atmosphere is informal and relaxed, creating a highly motivating work environment in which you will work with some of the most inspiring colleagues in the industry.
The Container service team
The Container Service Team is responsible to develop and maintain Leaseweb Managed Kubernetes. This service allows Leaseweb’s customers to deploy, manage & update their own Kubernetes Cluster, while simplifying the management of these clusters.
You will be part of a multidisciplinary team formed of experienced professionals (software engineers, system engineers, scrum master, product owner and product management) that strive to make our product better.
What is the role about?
In your role as a System Engineer in the Container Services team you are responsible for developing our container service offering based on Kubernetes. Your main activities will be automating deployment of Kubernetes clusters across the various Leaseweb compute offerings, as well as maintaining and monitoring these clusters.
Key responsibilities:
- Automate deployment, monitoring, and management of Kubernetes clusters across Leaseweb’s compute offerings worldwide.
- Explore & Analyze Kubernetes components and advise best procedure for implementation.
- Supporting our customers and development team with the Leaseweb’s Kubernetes product
- Integrate new features to Leaseweb’s Kubernetes product.
- Document Knowledge Base articles.
- Regular on-call duty (EOD / Engineer on Duty).
What we’re looking for:
You love working in a team setting. You enjoy building new solutions using the latest technologies. You believe that continuous improvement also applies to yourself and have the desire to grow. You are not afraid to experiment but at the same time keep in mind observability, scalability, stability and reliability.
- Hands on experience with container orchestrators such as Kubernetes or OpenShift.
- Able to deploy applications using Dockerfile, Kubernetes manifests and helm charts.
- Relevant experience with monitoring / observability tools (e.g. Icinga, Prometheus, AlertManager, Loki, Grafana).
- Experience with automation tools such as (e.g. Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform).
- Have Scripting skills (e.g. Shell, Python, Ruby, GoLang).
- Demonstrable knowledge of Linux and operating system internals.
- Understand networking concepts such as DNS, DHCP, TCP / IP.
- Familiar with Gitops / Site Reliability / Devops concepts & practices.
- Has business level English, and good communication skills.
Nice to have:
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification.
- Has experience using or managing a Large Kubernetes cluster in production.
- Is aware of Kubernetes security good practices and mitigations.
- Experience with helm / ArgoCD or with any project of the CNCF Cloud-Native landscape.
- Knowledge of cloud inner workings (virtualization, bare-metal servers, networks)
- Previous contributions to open source such as Kubernetes or related project.
Benefits include
- Participation in annual company bonus scheme and company pension
- Internet allowance and travel allowance
- Working from home policy
- Lease bike plan
- 25 days of paid time off (and the option to buy or sell up to 5 more days)
- Free lunch, parking, and fresh fruit provided when in the office
- Attractive relocation packages and an agency that takes care of the entire visa process
- Access to the Leaseweb Academy, a personalized learning platform offering a variety of studies, (Dutch) courses, and trainings
- Fun events year-round – from virtual pub quizzes to summer parties, company runs, quarterly hackathons and much more
- Monthly after work drinks
- A multicultural work environment (our colleagues are from over 60 countries!) in a company where you can truly make a difference
Ready for the next step?
If you’d like to apply, please do so online. To learn more about us, follow us on LinkedIn or Instagram to get an inside look at life at Leaseweb. For questions, please reach out to Merve Bulazar, Talent Acquisition Lead, at: m.bulazar@global.leaseweb.com.
We directly source all candidates – any unsolicited profiles received from recruitment agencies will be treated as direct applications.
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