Support Engineer Container Systems (All cities, RO)

We are currently looking for a Support Engineer DevOps & Containers experienced in Kubernetes. Cegeka focuses on providing ICT services to medium sized and large companies. We have developed our container platform product named KubePort to deliver an easy to use and easy to maintain container environment. It’s a combination of Kubernetes or Openshift and a Cloud Native toolset (observability, messaging, api-gateways, …). Deployments occur on infrastructure maintained in our own datacenters or in the public cloud. Do you want to be part of an agile product team developing the product using scrum methodology? What we expect is experience in container technology (Kubernetes/OpenShift), good automation skills (ansible, python) and the will to learn lots of new technologies. Does this sound like a good fit? Then Cegeka has a tailored challenge for you! Our goal at Cegeka is helping the customer achieve its business goals.  To do this, we offer high-quality solutions and we strive for the best solution.  Our customers depend on our expertise to guide them through the complexity of the modern IT landscape.  To expand our team, we search for similar qualities.   We look for candidates with the right mentality and a will to learn.  Cegeka continuously invests in talent management so that every employee can realize his potential. #LI-AP1

• You will be part of our product development and delivery team for our inhouse developed Cloud Native Container platform Kubeport.  
• You will be building features as part of the product to continuously improve the value we deliver to our customers.  
• You will be delivering the product to our customers using IaC (Terraform, Ansible) and GitOps (Ansible, ArgoCD) methods in our own Cegeka Datacenter or Microsoft Azure.
• You will deploy, configure and manage Cloud Native tools like Grafana, Prometheus, Kafka, Rook-Ceph, Pulsar, … or any other tool on the Cloud Native Computing Foundation Landscape.
• You will join customer scrum calls and will support our customers in their search for infrastructure solutions related to the product.  
• You will troubleshoot complex problems which will improve your troubleshooting skills.
• You will perform tests in our internal labo environment to execute proof of concepts for ideas that emerged from the internal discussions of the scrum team.
• You will create Kubernetes operators (in Python) to perform automated tasks inside the platform towards services inside or outside of the platform.
• You will be part of team knowledge sharing sessions as receiver or as a presenter, increasing the overall knowledge of the team.

• You are extremely eager to learn, driven and enthusiastic with a passion for container technology.
• You see a Kubernetes or OpenShift cluster as your playground.
• You have basic expertise as a Support Engineer giving you basic knowledge of the following areas: Operating Systems (Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu Linux),  Container Platforms (Kubernetes, Openshift), Automation technologies (Ansible, Terraform, Python. Shell, Jenkins, GitHub/GitLab. ArgoCD
• As a DevOps engineer, you will come in contact with the CNCF landscape and you deploy and configure tools like: HashiCorp Vault, Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana stack (Grafana, Loki, Tempo), Elastic stack (Kibana, Elasticsearch, Fluentd), Kafka, Pulsar, Apisix, Kong, Ceph, Minio
• We are improving and managing a multitenant container platform framework, fully automated with IaC and GitOps concepts in an agile environment. In time you are expected to build up experience with IaC and GitOps as well.
• Since automation is at the core of the product, scripting skills (python) are a major plus.
• You will be part of the container platform service team providing platform support to customers, mainly developer profiles, so knowledge of CI/CD and basic development concepts is a major plus.
• The platform is hosted either on premise in our own datacenters, the customer datacenter or in the public cloud (mainly Azure). Knowledge and experience with Microsoft Azure is a major plus.
• You can work independently but also enjoy working in a team, you are communicatively strong and analytical.
• You tackle problems like a real entrepreneur.
• You are fluent in English an you have completed a higher education (Bachelor or Master).