Platform Engineer

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SUSE is a global leader in innovative, reliable and secure enterprise open source solutions, including SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE), Rancher and NeuVector. More than 60% of the Fortune 500 rely on SUSE to power their mission-critical workloads, enabling them to innovate everywhere – from the data center to the cloud, to the edge and beyond. SUSE puts the “open” back in open source, collaborating with partners and communities to give customers the agility to tackle innovation challenges today and the freedom to evolve their strategy and solutions tomorrow.

We are open in our roots and open in our approach, striving to be the most trusted open innovator in the World. Openness extends beyond our technology. Our vibrant community thrives on diversity and connectivity without borders.

Platform Engineer

Job Description

Platform team is a part of the SUSE IT Platform Engineering department, maintaining the Internal Developer Platform which is available for SUSE teams to deploy and manage their applications. It's a space where anyone can deploy their own virtual machines or containers. The self-service Platform is built primarily with SUSE products (SLE, Rancher, Harvester, Longhorn, Neuvector) and other open source or CNCF tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Cortex, Kubewarden,...) both on-premises (multiple geo locations) and in the cloud. Additionally, the Platform team owns and maintains Cloud Landing Zones (AWS, Azure and GCP), available for internal SUSE teams to deploy the resources they need.

We are looking for an experienced engineer to collaborate on developing new features and maintaining high-quality products.

What you can expect:

• Translate business needs into technical requirements and solutions.

• Identify, develop and prioritize services according to business criticality.

• Research, design, operate and maintain infrastructure services for existing and new business applications and information systems.

• Work closely with various internal development teams and enable them to consume cloud-based resources.

• Participate as a member of an IT technical team and may lead a small team of engineers.

• Implement business or infrastructure applications or services following the best practices, reference architecture and cloud governance.

What we expect from you: 

• Have experience in Linux system administration and Kubernetes.

• Maintain resources using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm, Salt) and pipelines.

• Learn new technologies related to Cloud and Platform Engineering.

• Care for your team and its success.

• Document your work and maintain it.

• Work with others to achieve best-in-class solutions.

• Challenge the status quo to drive outstanding quality.

• You're open to giving and receiving feedback.

• You're willing and able to share your knowledge.

• Exhibit a high level of initiative and integrity.

• Possess creative ability, consulting skills, leadership qualities, credibility and self-confidence.

• Have knowledge about cloud-native and twelve-factor patterns.

• Have experience with writing code (e.g. Go, Python, Ruby, Rust) and databases (SQL-based and NoSQL).

• Have advanced understanding of modern software development methodologies, tools, testing and Git.

Why working at SUSE is great:

• 30+ years of experience in open source and Linux.

• Riding the wave of new trends in technology.

• Open source is everywhere in our daily job - flexible working time.

• Customer first policy. We care about our customers and we mean it!

• Platform Engineering culture. As platform engineers, we collaborate to build and maintain reliable and scalable platforms. We prioritize innovation, automation, and delivering high-quality solutions.

• Infrastructure as code - we don't trust our memory, we test and then run.

• Agile software development values and principles. We constantly learn how to deliver more value and work smarter, not harder.

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What We Offer 

We empower you to be bold, driving your career to create the future you want. We celebrate and reward your achievements.  

SUSE is a dynamic environment that is evolving rapidly, thus requiring agility, strong entrepreneurship and an open mind. 

This is a compelling opportunity for the right person to join us as we continue to scale and prosper.   

If you’re a big thinker, obsessed by execution and thrive in a dynamic environment in which you can tangibly create a lasting legacy, then please apply now!  

We give you the freedom to be yourself. You will work in a global community of unique individuals – like you – with different backgrounds, talents, skills and perspectives. A truly open community where everyone is welcome, has a voice and is encouraged to reach their full potential regardless of age, gender, race, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion, or any other characteristics.   

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• We are passionate about customers 

• We are respectful and inclusive  

• We are empowered and accountable   

• We are trustworthy and act with integrity  

• We are collaborative  

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