[MSO] Senior Proxmox Engineer (3-month contract)

Project – the aim you’ll have

We are looking for a Proxmox Engineer to join a Dutch engineering team delivering private cloud services to government and regulated-market customers in the Netherlands. The client is a managed services provider operating that platform.

This is a three-month full-time assignment with the possibility of extension. The purpose of the role is to verify that the client’s Proxmox environments – the out-of-band environment and the environment supporting the OpenStack platform – are correctly configured and built according to good practice, to bring them to a stable state, and to transfer that knowledge to the engineers who will operate them afterwards.

The assignment runs in three phases. First, an assessment of the current state of the environments: how they are built and configured, where the gaps and risks are, and what needs to change. Second, stabilisation: correcting the findings and verifying that the sizing matches the actual and expected load, so that the platform behaves predictably rather than only until it is pushed. Third, working alongside the operational engineer who will run the environment, so that the knowledge is transferred through practical day-to-day work rather than a document handover.

Role – how you’ll contribute

• Assess the existing Proxmox VE environments – cluster configuration, storage, networking, HA, backup – against good practice, and document what you find
• Identify configuration gaps, single points of failure and operational risks, and propose concrete remediation
• Verify sizing and capacity against the actual and expected load, and say clearly where the environment will not hold
• Implement the agreed corrections and improvements, and confirm they work
• Validate backup and restore, including whether recovery actually works end to end
• Work with the OpenStack team to make sure the Proxmox layer supports what the platform above it needs
• Produce documentation and runbooks that someone else can work from
• Work alongside the client’s operational engineer, transferring knowledge through shared day-to-day work
• Report progress and findings directly to the client’s engineers and managers in the Netherlands

Department: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Function: Information Technology
Experience Level: Mid-Senior Level