Datacenter System Engineer

Cleura is one of the leading European providers of IT infrastructure services based on Open Source. Our company provides public, compliant, private and hybrid cloud solutions based on OpenStack and has data centres around the world. We are a fast-growing company and a European leader in infrastructure as a service. We love having fun and working hard. We live to get that smile on our customer's faces when we solve a problem or simply provide something better than expected. That’s in fact why we go to work the next day.
Cleura is part of Iver, meaning that we have more than 1500 colleagues to support us in reaching our goals of becoming the primary European Compliant IaaS alternative.
There are endless opportunities at Cleura/Iver if you in the future would like to develop in any other area within the company/group. We strive for everyone to be engaged and aligned with your personal drivers.
About the Role
We are looking for engineer(s) with data centre experience to join our Network and Infrastructure team at Cleura. They will deploy and maintain the physical infrastructure which is the very foundation of our product offering. This is a great opportunity to work on bleeding-edge technology for a company striving for personal and team development.
You will report to a People and Process manager, under the Technology and Services department.
About the team
We love Open source! We primarily use Open-source technologies and enjoy contributing back when we can.
We work in an agile way, when it's relevant.
We are disciplined when it comes to testing changes.
We have fun at work. Work hard, play hard….
We spend time training new people who join the team and adjust how we work together via retrospectives. 10% of our working hours are dedicated to Education. You get to sit on the school bench or even hold the teacher stick yourself.

Responsibilities
Handle physical hardware lifecycle, from order to usage by other teams. This includes rack&stack (yourself if you like it! or through remote hands), configuring Baseboard management controllers (BMCs), and provisioning the systems.
As you are working within the network and infrastructure team, you will have to handle the physical hardware lifecycle for network gear too.
Work with vendors, from knowing their products to fixing bugs in their BMCs firmware.
Contribute in internal tooling for managing network and infrastructure.
Troubleshoot and fix issues in our cloud systems managing bare metal. We run Openstack with OSA, Ceph.
Work with different teams on delivering their hardware on time.
Contribute to improving our documentation and help train fellow co-workers on best deployment practices and support them in using the cloud.

Requirement/ Must have
You have fluent communication skills in English.
OOB management tools like IPMI/iDRAC/Redfish hold no secrets for you
You know your way around hardware
You are interested to follow hardware vendor technologies
You have experience working in datacentres
You understand data centre infrastructure and best practices, rack types, PDU's, cable management etc...
You want to define our way of working for bare metal provisioning
You can pick up and learn new technologies and enjoy doing so
You have knowledge of RAID and how to maintain it

Good to have
Experience with Ansible
You have experience with Canonical's MaaS or cobbler
You have operations/deployment experience on the OpenStack platform
Experience with Atlassian's software suite
Experience with Git
Knowledge of Device42

Personal Qualities
Genuinely interested in new technologies, software or hardware.
Well-organised and structured.

What we offer
Cleura has signed a corporate bargaining agreement with Almega with all benefits and insurances that it entails.
Full-time position with 6-months probationary period
Leave Policy: 6 weeks paid vacation as an employee and 4 weeks paid vacation as a contractor
Yearly wellness allowance of SEK 5000 as employee
Remote work: Work everywhere you want from the EU, and whenever you want, as long as you're working a minimum of 40 hours a week and according to the company and project needs

I'm interested. What's next?
We'd like to hear from you! We have a few questions we would like to ask you. We will start reviewing and inviting applications right away, so make sure you get yours in early.
We would like to encourage you to post a short video presenting yourself.
Type of Employment
Full-time position.
If you live in Sweden or Germany, you would be directly employed by our Swedish entity, and in Germany by our German subsidiary.
If you live in any country other than Sweden or Germany (but within EU), we will enter into a contractual agreement as applicable to the legal situation in your country.
Salary and compensation will be negotiated during the interview process.
Location
Cleura HQ at Blekingegatan 1, 371 57 Karlskrona, remote, or at any of Iver Group offices available at https://www.iver.com/om-iver/vara-kontor/#Sverige
Start Date
Immediate/at your earliest convenience