DevOps Engineer- Contour Cloud

Key Responsibilities

• Cloud & Platform Engineering
• Design, deploy, and maintain Linux-based cloud infrastructure supporting ContourCloud workloads
• Build and automate cloud deployments, platform services, and infrastructure workflows through scripting and code
• Support and enhance virtualization platforms, with a primary focus on Xen/XCP-ng; VMware, NSX and vSphere experience
• Build, deploy, and maintain physical and virtual server platforms
• Cinch Software Integration
• Work daily with Cinch Software to:
• Enable cloud orchestration and automation
• Ensure reliable cloud deployments and management workflows
• Improve integration between software-driven automation and infrastructure reality
• DevOps & Automation
• Collaborate closely with the Cinch Software development team to support:
• Cloud orchestration
• Platform integration
• Deployment automation
• Infrastructure-as-Code–style workflows
• Networking & IP Management
• Work directly with the Network Engineering team on:
• IP address management (IPAM)
• Network provisioning and lifecycle
• Cloud and data center network integration
• Monitoring, Observability & Operations
• Implement and maintain monitoring and observability platforms including:
• Zabbix for infrastructure monitoring
• Grafana for visualization and dashboards
• Storage & Systems
• Design, build, and maintain server and storage platforms, including:
• ZFS-based storage architectures
• TrueNAS (Core or SCALE) platforms
• Participate in platform reliability and operational readiness initiatives

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong Linux systems administration experience (required)
• Proven experience with:
• Scripting and automation
• Infrastructure or platform engineering in production environments
• Hands-on experience with:
• Xen virtualization
• XCP-ng (preferred)
• VMware NSX & vSphere
• Experience working with:
• NetBox (IPAM / DCIM)
• Zabbix
• Grafana
• Experience building and supporting:
• Physical servers
• Virtual infrastructure
• ZFS-based storage platforms
• TrueNAS
• Ability to work cross-functionally with:
• Software development teams
• Network engineering teams
• Infrastructure and operations teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in private cloud or MSP environments
• Familiarity with cloud orchestration and self-service platform design
• Understanding of DevOps best practices across infrastructure and application lifecycles
• Strong documentation and communication skills
• Experience supporting multi-tenant or customer-facing platforms

How This Role Is Different

• Not a pure CI/CD or app DevOps role
• Not isolated infrastructure engineering
• This is a platform DevOps role, tightly coupled to:
• Product-driven cloud orchestration (Cinch)
• Real production infrastructure
• Networking, storage, and observability

Why Contour Cloud?

• Work on a real, production private cloud platform
• Direct impact on cloud architecture, automation, and platform design
• Tight collaboration with product development around Cinch Software
• Engineering-first culture with deep infrastructure expertise