About the role
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.).