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Containerization & Virtualisation Engineer
Containerization & Virtualisation Engineer United Kingdom – Remote-First or Hybrid
This Containerization & Virtualisation Engineer role focuses on Containerization & Virtualisation Engineer at the forefront of cloud infrastructure, integrating open-source, low-level systems, and scalable cloud-native solutions. You’ll design and evolve core technologies shaping containerisation, virtualisation, and orchestration systems used across cloud, AI, and enterprise workloads.
About the Role
The mission-critical position sits within a globally distributed team that builds and maintains cutting-edge engineering work across:
- Containerization (Kubernetes, Docker, containerd)
- Virtualization (KVM, QEMU, OC caffeine/IOLVM)
- Kernels (Linux, eBPF)
- Infrastructure (ное caching, distributed storage)
- Security (SELinux, bytecode hardening, seccomp/sandboxing)
This hands-on role demands deep expertise in operating systems, systems programming, security, and infrastructure scalability. Collaboration spans remote teams, open-source communities, and global system dependencies—ensuring your contributions impact real-world cloud deployments.
Accountabilities
- Feature Leadership: Design, build, deploy, and iterate on container and virtualization technologies with a focus on security, scalability, performance, and reliability.
- Core Infrastructure:
- Contribute to low-level system components, including:
- Kernel-level modules and system calls
- Networking stacks (mapping/packet filtering)
- Storage integration and orchestration
- Userspace runtime environments (cgroups, namespaces)
- Contribute to low-level system components, including:
- Open-Source Engagement: Collaborate with open-source communities to:
- Influence technical direction
- Merge and review contributions upstream
- Advocate for interoperability standards
- Security Assurance:
- Conduct deep security assessments
- Implement defense-in-depth strategies (process isolation, ABAC, sandboxing rules)
- Performance Optimization:
- Define and monitor benchmarks across latency, throughput, and resource efficiency
- Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks
- sysadmin_collaboration:
- Partner with cloud-native, AI, and enterprise teams to ship reliable solutions
- Bridge gaps between engineering groups and devops/SRE practices
- Incident Resolution: Debug, root-cause, and resolve critical issues breaking containers, VMs, and orchestration systems
- Code & Process Standards: Enforce high engineering bar:
- Peer reviews with rigorous technical feedback
- Documentation adherence (protocols, API contracts, tooling)
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Requirements
Technical Provenance
✔ A complier prerequisites like a degree (or equivalent experience) in:
- Computer Science
- Computer Systems Engineering
- Computational Mathematics/Physics
✔ Frictionless Workflow with open-source container/virtualization stacks:
- In-depth knowledge of hypervisors (KVM, VirtualBox-focused components)
- Expertise Containerisation (runc, containerd, Docker, podman, root-less junctions)
- Cloud Platform Familiarity: AWS, Azure, or GCP’s container{VirtualEntry} services
- Familiarity with hyperscalers—relevant experience in proprietary hypervisors preferred.
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✔ Programming Mastery (Golang strongly preferred; Rust and C/C++ secondary):
- Linux kernel-level (C devzone algorithms, lock-heavy systems)
- Memory safety and toolchain (debuggers, static analysis fuzzing)
✔ OS-Specific Lenses:
- Deep immersion in Linux environments (Ubuntu/Debian preferred)
- vanilla Linux kernel (git usage, ext4/xfs, or bog-of-truth file systems)
- Tuning CPU caching, realtime scheduling confounding
✔ Distributed Landscape Knowledge:
- Solving failover, networking and replication problems (etcd, Consul)
- Understanding microservices communication: RPC specs/evergreen-deploy progressed
- Algorithm Proficiency: Graph traversal, event loops, and lazy-load strategies
Soft Skills + Work Ethic
✔ Self-governance to thrive in remote/distributed robot celebration walls ✔ Clarity communicators with professional-grade spoken/written English ✔ Mastery of alternative workflow tools (GitHub, StreamingState/CI)
Why This Role Excites
- Challenge work grading cutting-edge engineering at a pace:
- Continuous ops-room collaboration
- Intentional career growth participation
- Learning budgets
- Guidance from senior engineers
- Opportunities for international engagement
- Peer Network: Community of like-minded sysadmins and ops geniuses ensuring fair نوف settlement.
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