Platform Engineer

📋 Job Overview

We are looking for a Platform Engineer (all genders) to start as soon as possible in a full-time, permanent position. We embrace a remote-first approach, but you can choose whether you’d like to work in a hybrid model or entirely on-site, depending on your proximity to one of our locations.

🏢 About Contabo

Contabo is a company that provides hosting and cloud services, with a focus on high-performance and reliable infrastructure solutions.

🎯 The Role

The availability and performance of our platform are of the utmost importance to our customers’ satisfaction. These systems form the foundation of Contabo’s most important products, which is why the smooth operation of the environment has a direct and immediate impact on the company’s success.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for the operation and further development of our hosting platform—from Proxmox/KVM virtualization to storage (ZFS, Ceph) and networking, all the way through to monitoring and observability.
• Serve as the technical escalation point for our Platform Support team, analyze complex issues to their root cause, and ensure that problems do not recur.
• Use Ansible and Git for automation, plan and oversee maintenance, upgrades, and migrations, and contribute to capacity and hardware planning—for example, when introducing new hardware generations or setting up new locations.
• Be responsible for your own domain of the platform, make well-informed design decisions, and document them in a transparent manner.
• Actively share your knowledge with the team.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Training as an IT specialist in system integration, a degree in computer science, or a comparable qualification and experience.
• Several years of professional experience (at least 5 years) in the operation or development of large-scale Linux and virtualization environments.
• Solid hands-on experience with Linux (troubleshooting, performance), Proxmox/KVM or comparable virtualization technologies, Ansible, and monitoring solutions (e.g., Zabbix, Prometheus/Grafana).
• Very good German and English skills.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience with ZFS and/or Ceph, networking fundamentals (BGP, L3 routing, VLAN, Open vSwitch), Git/CI, and scripting in Bash or Python.
• A plus: Terraform, Kubernetes, Vault, PowerDNS, or experience in a hosting/cloud environment.
• Enjoy working with other teams and working independently.

🎁 Benefits

Competitive salary, remote-first approach, hybrid or on-site work options, opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies, and a chance to contribute to the foundation of Contabo’s most important products.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

No specific visa or eligibility information provided.