Platform Engineer (Orchestration)

Requirements

• The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in designing, developing, and maintaining infrastructure with a focus on Containers, Virtual machines and CI/CD
• You have 4-8 Years of experience with Installation, setup & configuration of high availability, secure, and resilient hosting facilities in production environments 24/7
• Installation, setup & configuration of high availability, secure, and resilient hosting facilities in production environments 24/7
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, communication and organisational skills
• Very strong experience in building CI/CD stack and pipelines for both Platform and Developer use cases
• Proficient in bare-metal infrastructure management (network backbone, Unix administration, Ansible, Netbox...)
• Proficient with Kubernetes administration with self-hosted clusters using technologies such as RKE2, Cilium, Envoy, Longhorn, Rancher, Keda and Kyverno
• Proficient with VM administration on top of open-sourced hypervisors like Harvester, OpenStack, and/or Fleet
• Proficient in deployment templating with Helm, Kustomize and Jinja
• Proficient in Orchestration products, including installation, configuration, performance tuning, and monitoring on technologies like ArgoCD, Jenkins, Harbour, Vault, self-hosted Github runners and Argo Workflow
• Proficient in using generative AI to build and run Platform products (agent and skills usage for opening a PR from a specification prompt, bridging MCP servers to troubleshooting production issues)
• Experience in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or similar for automation tasks
• Experience in building a Platform as an internal Product
• If you don’t meet all the requirements below but believe this opportunity aligns with your experience and expectations, we still encourage you to apply!

What the job involves

• We seek an experienced Orchestration Platform Engineer to join our dynamic team
• You will be crucial in managing our Platform products with a reliable, secure and cost-effective approach to host our orchestration components used by all workloads at Brevo, running on OVH hosting provider
• You will contribute to both running and improving our legacy infrastructure running on top of baremetal servers and building the next Platform generation with state-of-the-art technologies on network, hypervisors and orchestration layers
• Architect, build and maintain scalable and efficient container platforms using RKE2, orchestration tooling to automate CI/CD, deployment and remediation using Terraform, Ansible, Packer, Github CI, Jenkins, Vault and Digger
• Monitor and optimise the performance to ensure high availability and reliability using Alloy, Fluentd, Grafana and Datadog
• Contribute to the internal product roadmap definition, the backlog refinement, the architecture and the implementation review inside the Orchestration team
• Manage and maintain capacity planning for the production-grade orchestration chain
• Work as a cornerstone between other Platform teams and other divisions to understand hosting requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs
• Implement automation for deployment pipelines to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention
• Diagnose and resolve orchestration and system issues, ensuring minimal disruption to services
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of architecture, processes, and procedures