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Hardware Compatibility List & Ecosystem Lead
Vates Virtualization Management Stack (XCP-ng / Xen Orchestra)Job Description
Vates is a French software company specializing in virtualization, offering a credible alternative to proprietary solutions on the market. Our Vates VMS solution enables companies to manage their IT infrastructures in a simple, efficient, and controlled way.
As Hardware Compatibility Lead, you own the design and evolution of the Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) for XCP-ng.
Your mission is to define, build, and operate a structured HCL system that becomes the reference for hardware compatibility across the platform.
Your Responsabilities
Own the Hardware Compatibility Program
At VATES, you will find a flexible work environment, a supportive and approachable team, and a role that makes a real impact on a daily basis.
Location :
Our offices are based in Grenoble or Paris, but we operate on a fully remote model to provide greater flexibility and daily work comfort.
You are free to work 100% remotely or come on-site occasionally, depending on your preferences.
Benefits
Requirements
We are looking for a technical and cross-functional professional who is comfortable with infrastructure, virtualization, and hardware environments, and who can bring teams and partners together around a strategic, high-impact project.
We Are Looking For Someone With
Vates is a French software company specializing in virtualization, offering a credible alternative to proprietary solutions on the market. Our Vates VMS solution enables companies to manage their IT infrastructures in a simple, efficient, and controlled way.
As Hardware Compatibility Lead, you own the design and evolution of the Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) for XCP-ng.
Your mission is to define, build, and operate a structured HCL system that becomes the reference for hardware compatibility across the platform.
Your Responsabilities
Own the Hardware Compatibility Program
- Define and maintain the roadmap for the HCL system
- Align priorities with product, engineering, alliances, and support
- Identify gaps in coverage, validation depth, and tooling
- Drive improvements in compatibility quality and system reliability
- Ensure alignment with product strategy and release cycles
- Define and maintain the Certified / Verified / Compatible model
- Ensure consistent rules, data quality, and lifecycle across all tracks
- Balance vendor, internal, and community validation sources
- Define governance for acceptance, review, and publication
- Actively contribute to hardware validation (servers, storage, networking, accelerators)
- Support certification efforts with vendors when applicable
- Improve regression and compatibility testing practices
- Use and shape early-stage tooling through real-world validation work
- Develop relationships with hardware vendors and technology partners
- Work with alliances to expand coverage and engagement
- Define processes for collecting and validating compatibility data
- Integrate feedback from customers and the open-source community
- Define data model and workflows behind the HCL system
- Work with engineering teams to prioritize and deliver platform features
- Contribute directly to implementation when needed
- Ensure the platform becomes the trusted source of compatibility information
- Align engineering, product, alliances, support, vendors, customers, and community contributors
- Facilitate discussions and drive decisions
- Communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs clearly
- Build alignment without relying on formal authority
- Can run a cross-team program from end to end: roadmap, priorities, and the calls on what gets validated and when. Builds alignment without having formal authority over the people doing the work.
- Knows how to build and keep working relationships with hardware vendors and partners (joint validation, lab access, certification), not just run tests in a corner.
- Comfortable around an open-source community: gathering and reviewing the results people submit, folding them into the HCL, and working with the Community Manager rather than around them.
- Broad infrastructure background across virtualization, storage (SAN/NAS/HCI) and networking (VLANs, bonding, 10/25/100G). Enough to design test plans and read results critically. Deep hardware or electronics expertise is not the point here.
- Hands-on, not only strategic. At ease with Python/Ansible/Bash, willing to shape the early tooling and write parts of the system until it can stand on its own.
- Reports clearly, in writing and out loud, to technical and non-technical people.
- Fluent English.
- Familiar with XCP-ng or Xen-based virtualization.
- Has run a hardware compatibility list, a certification program, or partner/QA engineering before.
- Has worked in an open-source environment.
At VATES, you will find a flexible work environment, a supportive and approachable team, and a role that makes a real impact on a daily basis.
Location :
Our offices are based in Grenoble or Paris, but we operate on a fully remote model to provide greater flexibility and daily work comfort.
You are free to work 100% remotely or come on-site occasionally, depending on your preferences.
Benefits
- Meal vouchers
- Health insurance coverage funded at 50% by the company
- Benefits provided by the Works Council (employee discounts, cinema tickets, etc.)
- Employee savings plan (PEE)
- Profit-sharing scheme
- Annual bonus
- 100% remote work
Requirements
We are looking for a technical and cross-functional professional who is comfortable with infrastructure, virtualization, and hardware environments, and who can bring teams and partners together around a strategic, high-impact project.
We Are Looking For Someone With
- Bachelor’s degree to a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Network & Systems, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Several years of experience.
- Autonomous and pragmatic. Pulls in the right people (engineering, product, alliances, support, community).
- Player-coach: as happy designing the model as plugging a server in to test it.
- Fluent English.