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Information Systems Engineer

at Fortinet

Mid LevelNo visa sponsorshipAWS/GCP/Azure DevOps

Posted 10 hours ago

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Compensation: Not specified
City: Frankfurt am Main
Country: Germany

Fortinet is seeking an Information Systems Engineer to join the EMEA OpenStack system team. The role involves deploying, managing, and automating OpenStack-based private cloud platforms across the EMEA region, handling incidents and escalations, and coordinating with remote field engineers. The candidate will work in Linux-heavy environments, using automation tools such as Ansible and Git, and participate in change management and 24/7 on-call coverage. This is a production-focused role aimed at delivering scalable, reliable, and secure systems.

Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany

Overview:

Fortinet is recruiting an Information Systems Engineer to join our EMEA OpenStack system team. This team is responsible for deploying, managing, operating our OpenStack-based private cloud platforms.

As part of the Management Information System (MIS) team, you will be involved in EMEA servers’ deployment, systems deployment, automation. You will be driving remote field engineers in datacentres and working with remote teammates. You will ensure that systems are delivered efficiently, and securely, while supporting business objectives such as scalability, reliability, and performance. This position would represent a great fit for OpenStack engineer or IT professionals with a combination of Linux, automation, containers. The ideal candidate can adapt to different environments and seeks production reliability; you support Fortinet’s ongoing growth within EMEA region.

Key Responsibilities:

Manages multiple production OpenStack private cloud infrastructures in EMEA within the MIS System team, helping the development and deployment of new platforms across the EMEA region.
Handle incidents and technical escalations by hosting conference calls, coordinating actions, troubleshooting, and providing analysis and technical investigation of issues within the Fortinet systems environment
Install, configure, automate, patch hundreds of Linux servers using git/ansible
EMEA systems installation from physical server plan and layout to host installation, system configuration and tuning
Work with remote teammates, remote field engineers
Involved in change management, perform production changes, upgrades, apply security patches, following carefully the processes
Manage OnCall to provide 24/7 support with the team
Build/Share procedures in our Wiki, build share scripts in our repos

Skills and Attributes Requirements:

Around 5 years of experience with production platforms
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering or related field, or an equivalent combination of training and experience
Advanced experience in Linux based systems (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu)
Experience in OpenStack administration
Experience in at least one scripting language (Ansible, Python, Bash, etc.) and repository management like git
Experience in change management process, Jira
Excellent ability to organize, multitask, work individually and in a team, able to adapt
All positions require strong oral and written communication skills. All positions also require good knowledge of English (written and spoken) to provide full information as well as to document tasks, processes, areas of responsibility for configuration, troubleshooting, and maintenance

Nice to have:

Docker/Kubernetes, container, orchestration experience is a plus
Datacentre operations knowledge
System logging like ELK knowledge
knowledge in network, server and system monitoring (Zabbix, Nagios, Prometheus, Grafana, etc...)
RedHat Certification
ITIL Certification
Knowledge in software defined storage and network

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