Senior Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Brevo, a leading CRM suite, as a Senior Orchestration Platform Engineer. You will architect, build, and maintain scalable virtualization platforms using technologies like KubeVirt, Harvester, KVM, Terraform, Ansible, and Packer. Responsibilities include managing the orchestration stack, monitoring performance, contributing to team mentorship and roadmap definition, and collaborating with other teams. You will implement automation, diagnose issues, and maintain documentation. Success requires strong experience in open-source virtualization, Linux environments, network operations, distributed storage, large-scale infrastructures, CI/CD pipelines, and scripting languages. Brevo offers a unique opportunity in a hyper-growth environment with various benefits.

Requirements

• Installation, setup & configuration of high availability, secure, and resilient hosting facilities in production environments 24/7
• Strong experience in open-sourced Virtualization products (installation, configuration, performance tuning, and monitoring)
• Strong experience with linux environments on baremetal machines like OVH offers
• Strong experience in network backbone fine tuning and operations (IPAM, BGP, NAT, …)
• Strong experience using local and distributed storage for virtualization engine (storage pool and storage volume paradigms such as with ZFS, Longhorn or CephFS)
• Previous experience in large scaled infrastructures including > 1000 VMs & > 10000 containers
• Proficient with CI/CD pipelines for Platform products
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical and organizational skills
• Experience with Cloud native orchestration platforms like Containers and Kubernetes
• Experience in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or similar for automation tasks
• Experience in hybrid, on-premise and/or cloud-based architectures and services
• Experience in building a Platform as an internal Product

Responsibilities

• Architect, build and maintain scalable and efficient virtualization platform such as KubeVirt, Harvester, KVM
• Architect, build and maintain the orchestration stack for virtualization provisioning, failure autoremediation and capacity planning through Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform, Ansible, Packer, Jenkins
• Monitor and optimize the performance to ensure high availability and reliability using Fluentd, Prometheus and Grafana
• Contribute to the mentorship, the internal product roadmap definition, the backlog refinement, architecture and implementation review inside the Orchestration team
• Manage and maintain capacity planning for the production grade virtualization product
• Work as a cornerstone between other Platform teams and other divisions to understand virtualization requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs
• Implement automation for deployment pipelines to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention
• Diagnose and resolve orchestration issues, ensuring minimal disruption to services
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of architecture, processes, and procedures

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with workload orchestration such as ArgoCD or Flux is a plus

Benefits

• Meal vouchers - Swile (12,5 € per day)
• Excellent private health care, of which 70% is covered by the company
• RTT
• Inter-office trips
• Work's council benefits (Leeto)
• Social and green committees to take care of environmental and social matters
• Several services related to prevention, health and personal and professional well-being on Welii platform
• Very competitive referral program
• Second parent leave: 1 month of fully paid leave
• Kids leave: additional time off if your children are sick and need you
• English classes, and over 155000 courses available on Udemy
• Budget to support your workspace at home
• A modern office in a central location with free fruits, drinks & lots of fun activities
• Relocation package for international talent
• Sustainable Mobility Package if you choose to commute to work on a mechanical or electric bike