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We are looking for a motivated System Engineer to help build and evolve this product.\nProduct Engineering at Leaseweb\nOur team of approximately 145 engineers works in small scrum teams, each with end-to-end responsibility for a specific product or part of our architecture. We work on a remote-first basis, coming together in person at our Amsterdam headquarters twice a year.\nOur organizational structure is flat, placing a high value on independence and entrepreneurship. The atmosphere is informal and relaxed, creating a highly motivating work environment where you will work alongside some of the most inspiring colleagues in the industry.\nWhat is the role about?\nAs a System Engineer in the Container Services team, you are responsible for developing our container offering based on Kubernetes. Your main activities will be automating the deployment of Kubernetes clusters across Leaseweb's various compute offerings, as well as maintaining and monitoring those clusters.\nYou will be part of a multidisciplinary team of experienced professionals: software engineers, system engineers, a scrum master, product owner, and product management.\nKey Responsibilities:\nAutomate deployment, management, patching, and deletion of Kubernetes clusters across Leaseweb's compute offerings\n\nArchitect, explore, evaluate, integrate and tune Kubernetes components, advising on best practices and identifying issues before they reach production\n\nBuild and tune alerting & observability: Develop the monitoring, alerting, and logging that tells us our clusters are healthy - create & tune dashboards, alert, and metrics, using the SRE philosophy.\n\nMaintain the platform: Deploy new Kubernetes version, Update components, and make sure our components are secure.\n\nInvestigate production issues, Troubleshoot, contribute to runbook and create permanent fixes for the issue we discover.\n\nHelp the team design new features for Leaseweb's customers\n\nSupport customers and development teams, Participate in regular on-call duty (Engineer on Duty)\n\nGrow the engineers around you: Share your Kubernetes expertise with engineers in other teams, mentor colleagues within your own team, and contribute to cross-functional efforts on problems bigger than any single team\n\nAlign with the wider architecture: Make sure the team's solutions line up with the department's architecture standards, and spot where the team can improve\n\nWhat we're looking for:\nYou love working in a team setting. You enjoy building new solutions using the latest technologies. You believe that continuous improvement also applies to yourself and have the desire to grow. You are not afraid to experiment.\nHands-on experience operating Kubernetes at scale, supporting multiple clusters across different environments including production\n\nGood knowledge of the CNCF & Kubernetes ecosystem, knows enough to be able to compare choices, and state tradeoff for common technology choices.\n\nMastery of ArgoCD or a similar GitOps tool for continuous delivery, with a solid understanding of GitOps, SRE, and DevOps principles\n\nDemonstrable knowledge of Kubernetes inner-workings, components, networking and storage fundamentals\n\nExperience working & architecting cloud-native applications\n\nSolid knowledge of Linux operating systems, with experience performing standard system administration tasks (OS maintenance, networking, DNS, backups)\n\nGood communication skills (in English)\n\nExperience with containerized application packaging and deployment\n\nScripting skills in Shell and/or Python for automation and tooling\n\nFamiliarity with CI/CD tooling\n\nNice to have:\nExperience with Golang\n\nPrevious contributions to open-source projects such as Kubernetes or related tools\n\nBenefits include:\nParticipation in annual company bonus scheme and company pension\n\nInternet allowance and travel allowance\n\nWorking from home policy\n\nWork from abroad: Up to 4 weeks per year, following policy guidelines\n\nLease bike plan\n\n25 days of paid time off (and the option to buy or sell up to 5 more days)\n\nFree lunch, parking, and fresh fruit provided when in the office\n\nAccess to the Leaseweb Academy, a personalized learning platform offering a variety of studies, (Dutch) courses, and trainings\n\nAttractive relocation packages and an agency that takes care of the entire visa process\n\nFun events year-round - from virtual pub quizzes to summer parties, company runs, quarterly hackathons and much more\n\nA multicultural work environment (our colleagues are from over 60 countries!) in a company where you can truly make a difference\n\nReady for the next step?\nIf you'd like to apply, please do so online. To learn more about us, follow us on LinkedIn or Instagram to get an inside look at life at Leaseweb. 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