Senior Platform Engineer (Virtualization)

Brevo; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meal vouchers - Swile (12,5 € per day)

Excellent private health care, 70% covered by the company

RTT

50% Reimbursement of Navigo or bicycle mileage

Work's council benefits

Social, green, and LGBTQIA+ committees

Budget to support your workspace at home

Relocation package for international talents

New office with free refreshments and fun activities

Job summary

A leading CRM platform in Paris seeks a Senior Orchestration Platform Engineer to design and maintain virtualization infrastructure. You will lead the architecture and implementation of scalable solutions while collaborating across teams. Candidates should possess a strong background in open-source virtualization, Linux environments, and CI/CD pipelines. The company offers competitive benefits and a supportive work culture.

Qualifications

• Experience with large-scale infrastructures including > 1000 VMs and > 10000 containers.
• Strong experience in network backbone tuning and operations (IPAM, BGP, NAT, etc.).
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build and maintain scalable virtualization platform.
• Monitor and optimize performance for high availability.
• Implement automation for deployment pipelines.

Skills

Open-source virtualization products

Linux environments

Network operations tuning

CI/CD pipelines

Scripting languages

Job description

Overview

Brevo is the leading and fast-growing Customer Relationship Management (CRM) suite designed to enable millions of organizations to connect with people using technology for their success. Our platform provides a unified view of the entire customer journey with intuitive marketing and sales tools, including Marketing Automation, Email, SMS, WhatsApp, Chat, and more. More than 500,000 businesses across 180 countries rely on Brevo, including Louis Vuitton, Carrefour, eBay, and Michelin. Brevo reached €142M ARR in 2023 (40% growth year on year) and has close to 1,000 employees globally.

We seek an experienced Senior Orchestration Platform Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in designing, developing, and maintaining infrastructures focusing on virtualization engines and will be crucial in managing our Platform architecture with a reliable and cost-effective approach to host Brevo Platform products on top of our bare metal hosting provider (OVH).

As a Senior Orchestration Platform Engineer specialized into virtualization engines, you will:

• Architect, build and maintain scalable and efficient virtualization platform such as KubeVirt, Harvester, KVM
• Architect, build and maintain the orchestration stack for virtualization provisioning, failure autoremediation and capacity planning through Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform, Ansible, Packer, Jenkins
• Monitor and optimize the performance to ensure high availability and reliability using Fluentd, Prometheus and Grafana
• Contribute to mentorship, internal product roadmap definition, backlog refinement, architecture and implementation review inside the Orchestration team
• Manage and maintain capacity planning for the production-grade virtualization product
• Serve as a cornerstone between other Platform teams and divisions to understand virtualization requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs
• Implement automation for deployment pipelines to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention
• Diagnose and resolve orchestration issues, ensuring minimal disruption to services
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of architecture, processes, and procedures

What will contribute to your success:

• Installation, setup & configuration of high availability, secure, and resilient hosting facilities in production environments 24/7
• Strong experience in open-source virtualization products (installation, configuration, performance tuning, and monitoring)
• Strong experience with Linux environments on bare metal machines like OVH
• Strong experience in network backbone tuning and operations (IPAM, BGP, NAT, etc.)
• Strong experience using local and distributed storage for virtualization engines (storage pool and storage volume paradigms such as ZFS, Longhorn or CephFS)
• Experience with large-scale infrastructures including > 1000 VMs and > 10000 containers
• Proficient with CI/CD pipelines for Platform products
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical and organizational skills
• Experience with Cloud native orchestration platforms like Containers and Kubernetes
• Experience in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or similar for automation tasks
• Experience in hybrid, on-premise and/or cloud-based architectures and services
• Experience in building a Platform as an internal Product
• Experience with workload orchestration such as ArgoCD or Flux is a plus

What We Offer

• Meal vouchers - Swile (12,5 € per day)
• Excellent private health care, of which 70% is covered by the company
• RTT
• 50% Reimbursement of Navigo or bicycle mileage reimbursement
• Inter-office trips
• Work's council benefits (Leeto)
• Social, green and LGBTQIA+ committees to take care of environmental and social matters
• Several services related to prevention, health and personal and professional well-being on Welii platform
• Very competitive referral program
• Second parent leave: 1 month of fully paid leave
• Kids leave: additional time off if your children are sick and need you
• English classes, and over 155000 courses available on Udemy
• Budget to support your workspace at home
• Relocation package for international talents
• A brand new office in a central location with free fruits, drinks & lots of fun activities
• Sustainable Mobility Package if you choose to commute to work on a mechanical or electric bike
• ...and more!

Meet us

• A call with the Talent Acquisition team
• An interview with the Platform Orchestration Manager
• An interview with one of Platform System team member
• Last interview with the VP of Platform

Brevo puts diversity and inclusion at the heart of its values. We examine all applications with regard to equal skills and applying the principles of non-discrimination.

Brevo values work-life balance and offers flexible working hours and remote work. Most of our teams will be working mostly remotely and others will follow a hybrid model depending on the nature of the job. This policy is based on a mutual understanding between the Head of, Managers, and Team Members.

Seniority level

Not Applicable

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Hospitality, Food and Beverage Services, and Retail

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