Platform Engineer

ItalyOn-site

Responsibilities

Enable internal teams to consume compute, storage, and cloud resources through reliable self-service, translating business needs into technical solutions prioritized by criticality.
Manage everything as Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm, Salt) through CI/CD and GitOps, following reference architecture and cloud governance.

By transforming community innovations into secure, sovereign and AI-ready solutions, SUSE empowers customers to escape vendor lock-in and regain control of their IT destiny.
Through industry-leading Linux, Kubernetes, Edge and AI infrastructure solutions, SUSE delivers the flexibility to innovate everywhere—from the data center to multi-cloud and out to the edge.
Only SUSE also manages many Linux and Kubernetes distributions.
We're equally pragmatic about what's next: we adopt new technologies as they prove themselves and increasingly scale our work capacity with AI agents.
Focus Areas Research, design, deploy, operate, and maintain the platform's core infrastructure services, including the virtualization layer (Harvester, KVM), storage (NetApp, Longhorn), and the Cloud Landing Zones (AWS, Azure, GCP).
experience in Linux system administration and Kubernetes. Hands-on
experience with virtualization such as KVM and Harvester (KubeVirt), plus enterprise and cloud-native storage solutions.
Infrastructure as Code and GitOps practices with CI/CD pipelines; knowledge of the Rancher ecosystem and CNCF tooling is a strong plus.
Experience operating workloads on-premises and in at least one public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP), with knowledge of cloud-native patterns.
Go, Python, Ruby, Rust) and familiarity with databases (SQL and NoSQL), backed by solid software development methodology, testing, and Git skills.

About Us SUSE is a global leader of enterprise open source software.
At SUSE, Choice Happens because we prioritize community, interoperability and relentless innovation.
We're the team behind SUSE's Internal Developer Platform: a self-service foundation, spanning data centers across the globe and the public cloud, where anyone can spin up the virtual machines, containers, and applications they need.
We're self-organized, agile, and serious about doing infrastructure right — everything as code, tested before it runs, grounded in SRE and DevOps practices.
Continuously improve the platform for resilience, security, scalability, and efficiency against evolving requirements and threats.
Participate in and, where appropriate, lead cross-functional teams — analyzing complex requirements, designing multi-team solutions, setting technical direction, and mentoring others. Preferred
Scripting and development in a modern language (e.g.
High initiative, integrity, and ownership, with the drive to challenge the status quo, document and share your work, and give and receive feedback.
Job Information Technology What We Offer We empower you to be bold, driving your career to create the future you want.
SUSE is a dynamic environment that is evolving rapidly, thus requiring agility, strong entrepreneurship and an open mind.