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Lead System Engineer - VMWARE + OpenStack

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Quick Summary

Key Responsibilities

Install, configure, administer, and support enterprise private cloud and virtualization platforms. Operate and maintain OpenStack and CEPH environments, ensuring platform availability, resilience,

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Team Overview

The successful candidate will join the HOS/CTS Team, responsible for the deployment, operation, and continuous improvement of Société Générale's private cloud and virtualization platforms.

The team:

  • Deploys, supports, and maintains the Group's private cloud, storage, and virtualization infrastructure.
  • Provides expert guidance to internal stakeholders on cloud hosting and infrastructure services.
  • Supports application teams in adopting modern cloud and infrastructure platforms.
  • Works closely with regional and global teams to ensure platform stability, performance, capacity, and operational excellence.
  • Drives automation, standardization, and continuous improvement across hosting and cloud services.

 

Role and Responsibilities

As a Cloud & Virtualization Engineer, your mission will be to:

  • Install, configure, administer, and support enterprise private cloud and virtualization platforms.
  • Operate and maintain OpenStack and CEPH environments, ensuring platform availability, resilience, performance, and scalability.
  • Manage Linux-based cloud infrastructure, including compute, storage, and platform services.
  • Perform platform upgrades, patching, maintenance, and lifecycle management activities.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex cloud, storage, virtualization, and infrastructure incidents.
  • Support infrastructure deployment projects and cloud transformation initiatives across the region.
  • Automate infrastructure operations using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and configuration management tools.
  • Collaborate with global architecture, engineering, and operations teams on strategic platform initiatives.
  • Develop and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, standards, and best practices.
  • Participate in capacity planning, performance optimization, and infrastructure governance activities.
  • Represent the HOS/CTS team in regional and global technical forums and working groups.
  • Share knowledge and mentor junior engineers within the team.

 

Education

  • University degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.

 

Private Cloud, OpenStack & CEPH

  • Strong hands-on experience with:
    • OpenStack
    • CEPH
    • Linux (Red Hat, Rocky Linux, Ubuntu, or equivalent)
  • Experience operating large-scale enterprise private cloud environments.
  • Strong understanding of cloud architecture, virtualization, high availability, performance optimization, and capacity planning.
  • Experience with CEPH cluster operations, monitoring, troubleshooting, and capacity management.
  • Knowledge of software-defined infrastructure, enterprise storage, networking, and infrastructure resiliency concepts.
  • Ability to troubleshoot complex cloud, compute, storage, and platform issues in production environments.

Container & Platform Technologies

  • Experience with Docker and containerization technologies.
  • Understanding of container lifecycle management, image repositories, networking, and security best practices.
  • Exposure to Kubernetes, OpenShift, or other cloud-native platforms is advantageous.
  • Understanding of modern application hosting platforms and cloud operating models.

Automation & Operations

  • Strong automation mindset with a focus on operational efficiency and reliability.
  • Experience with:
    • Ansible
    • Terraform
    • Python
    • GitHub / GitHub Actions
  • Experience implementing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and infrastructure automation frameworks.
  • Knowledge of CI/CD practices supporting infrastructure and platform deployments.
  • Experience automating OpenStack, CEPH, Linux, and infrastructure operations.

Nice to Have

  • Experience with VMware technologies, including:
    • VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)
    • VMware vSphere
    • VMware ESXi
    • VMware vCenter Server
    • VMware NSX
    • VMware vSAN
    • VMware Lifecycle Manager (vLCM)
    • VMware HA, DRS, and vMotion
  • Experience supporting mixed OpenStack and VMware environments.
  • Knowledge of enterprise virtualization architectures and operations.
  • Experience with enterprise server hardware platforms (Dell, Lenovo, HPE, etc.).

 

Opportunity to work with some of the best minds in a team and learn a lot on the technical front. Get mentored/groomed on the best practices followed in the software industry.

 

Location & Eligibility

Where is the job
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On-site at the office
Who can apply
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Lead System Engineer - VMWARE + OpenStack