Cloud Engineer

About the Role

Are you ready to invent the future of cloud infrastructure? Join us to shape a new era in cloud computing and build a career that matches your ambition. We are looking for Cloud Engineers to design, deploy, and operate the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) layer of the Outscale cloud.

You will work at the intersection of our Platform as a Service (PaaS) and the underlying physical infrastructure, driving automation, expanding services to new regions, and ensuring the platform is secure, resilient, high-performing, and compliant.

You will partner with infrastructure development, automation, and operations teams to implement cloud best practices and deliver production-ready, compliant cloud solutions.

• Deploy, manage, maintain, and operate Outscale cloud using best‑practice patterns for scalability, performance, and security.
• Build, implement, and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) pipelines with Terraform, Ansible/Salt Stack, Packer, Jenkins, etc.
• Own the full lifecycle of our IaaS environment, from initial provisioning to continuous supervision, placing a strong emphasis on process automation.

• Automate and industrialise deployments, updates, and regional expansions; ensure repeatable, auditable release pipelines.

• Propose and implement system improvements that boost performance, resilience, and cost‑efficiency.
• Contribute directly to the technological evolution of the platform.

• Define, implement, and refine critical KPIs (SLI, SLO, SLA).
• Build and maintain observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, ELK) to proactively detect and resolve issues.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimise system performance, reliability, and scalability.

• Identify and remediate single points of failure and security risks; ensure system resiliency.
• Analyse and address performance and scalability challenges with durable solutions.

• Write clear technical documentation, runbooks, and operational playbooks.
• Conduct knowledge‑transfer sessions and internal training to keep the team up‑to‑date.

• Perform deep‑dive investigations on escalations from client support.
• Participate in on‑call rotations and provide timely resolutions.

• Strengthen relationships with internal (development, security, product) and external (vendors, partners) teams to foster a collaborative, innovative environment.

• Assist in capacity planning and roadmap development for future infrastructure growth.

• Ensure all cloud‑engineering practices comply with internal standards and regulatory requirements (e.g., VA standards).

• Applicants must be authorized to work in the US.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 3–8 years of experience in Cloud Engineering, Dev Ops, or Site Reliability Engineering.
• Proven expertise in Unix/Linux environments with strong scripting/automation skills (Bash, Python).
• Expert‑level proficiency with Salt Stack or Ansible (Salt Stack preferred).

• Deep knowledge of networking fundamentals, physical and virtual system & storage infrastructure.
• Hands‑on experience provisioning, orchestrating, and managing virtual resources.
• Familiarity with data protection, disaster‑recovery strategies, and compliance frameworks.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes architecture and operations.
• Strong troubleshooting mindset with an automation‑first approach.

• Linux (CentOS / Rocky)

• Python3, Bash

• Git, Terraform, Ansible, Salt Stack (preferred), Packer, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes

• QEMU, KVM, VMware ESXi

• Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, ELK Stack

• HAProxy, Nginx, LevelDB, MongoDB, Redis, Node.js, SQL databases

• Strong understanding of L2/L3 concepts, physical & virtual networking, storage infrastructure

• Experience with any public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.)