OVH has currently its branches in 19 countries in the world. Leading Cloud provider in Europe and third in the world with >300 000 dedicated servers, over 18 million installed Web applications located all over its 27 data centers in Europe, Asia and North America. The global fiber-optic network of total capacity more than 13 Tbps made it possible for OVH to become a major player in 'Digital as a Service' market.
The success of OVH is associated with its unique business model, based on innovation and full control over the services - from manufacturing the services, supporting it to maintain the entire technical infrastructure. OVH hires currently over 2200 employees worldwide. Branch in Wrocław is an R&D center for network services, Public cloud services based on OpenStack and Ceph technologies, developping of email services including Hosted Exchange solution.
Our project:
Ceph is an open-source, distributed storage system with no single point of failure. It is increasingly used as a software-defined storage solution for cloud infrastructure. Our project's goal is to provide Ceph-as-a-Service, so others can make use of it without having to set it up and manage themselves. Our project is most accurately described as delivering Infrastructure As Code. We write software that takes care of setting up systems, so that no human sysadmin intervention is required. We use Python as the primary programming language and Puppet for setting up and managing systems. We also contribute all our patches upstream.
Your role:
- Developing massive, distributed storage services for cloud computing
- Developing IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) applications in Python and Puppet
Requirements:
- 4+ years' experience in software development
- Very good knowledge of at least one of the following programming languages: Python/Ruby
- Familiarity with good software development practices (writing tests, documentation)
- Good command of spoken and written English
Assets:
- Experience with software-defined storage systems (Ceph, Gluster or similar)
- Good understanding of GNU/Linux system internals
- Experience in working with distributed systems
- Familiarity with Python frameworks: Celery, SQLAlchemy
- Experience with Linux kernel development
- Knowledge of C/C++ programming language
- Experience with Docker and container technology
- Experience with OpenStack
What we offer:
- Participate in creating innovative projects for cloud environments
- Work on and learn a broad technology stack – from kernel development to high-level Python applications
- Maintain a huge cloud-scale environment of thousands of servers
- Be part of a small team of all levels – from junior to senior
- Relaxed work atmosphere far different from other corporate standards
- Work in a multi-national environment with state-of-the-art video conference equipment
- Optional part-time work from home
- Get involved with open-source communities – go to conferences all around the world
- Private health care
- Meal bonus
- And many other benefits