Infrastructure Operations Engineer

Accountabilities

• Manage employee onboarding, offboarding, and access-management requests in accordance with established security procedures, ensuring appropriate approvals, least-privilege access, and verification of completed actions.

• Take ownership of common Linux and infrastructure requests and incidents, from initial triage and troubleshooting through resolution or escalation to the appropriate technical owner.

• Perform standard host provisioning and production-server changes across bare-metal infrastructure, private cloud, and public cloud environments, following approved procedures and escalating non-standard requirements.

• Troubleshoot DNS-related issues and execute authorized DNS and domain-management changes in accordance with established operational guidelines.

• Implement approved firewall and operating-system changes, ensuring appropriate rollback procedures and post-change verification.

• Monitor infrastructure performance, investigate alerts, and respond to operational incidents while prioritizing actual service availability and business impact.

• Keep stakeholders and requesters informed throughout incident resolution, providing regular updates until service recovery has been confirmed.

• Distinguish genuine infrastructure issues from alert noise and improve alert routing, escalation paths, and ownership where necessary.

• Manage Jira requests according to agreed priorities and response times, ensuring clear communication and consistent follow-up.

• Deploy standard infrastructure services using approved specifications, procedures, and operational runbooks, escalating architectural or design decisions when required.

• Maintain clear and accessible technical documentation to support recurring operational activities and ensure effective team coverage.

• Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency through small-scale automation, particularly across onboarding, offboarding, access management, and access-review processes.

• Collaborate with infrastructure colleagues in a distributed environment to maintain service reliability, security, and continuous operational improvement.

Requirements:

• Hands-on experience troubleshooting Linux systems in a professional or production-like environment, with preference for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) family distributions.

• Good working knowledge of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, and TLS, with the ability to identify and isolate operating-system, network, and application-level issues.

• Practical experience with at least one virtualization platform or cloud environment.

• Demonstrated ability to independently manage technical incidents and support tickets, including gathering evidence, assessing business impact, prioritizing tasks, communicating progress, verifying recovery, and escalating issues with clear technical findings.

• Experience implementing standard production changes safely, including rollback planning and post-implementation verification.

• Ability to understand, maintain, and modify existing automation scripts or develop small improvements using Bash or Python.

• Practical experience using AI assistants to support troubleshooting, scripting, and technical documentation, with the ability to independently validate outputs before implementing production changes.

• Strong written and spoken English skills, with the ability to communicate effectively in an asynchronous, remote-working environment.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, combined with a proactive approach to identifying and resolving technical issues.

• Strong sense of ownership, accountability, and attention to detail when managing infrastructure requests and operational responsibilities.

• Good communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work independently while contributing effectively to a distributed technical team.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with OpenNebula, KVM, or other private-cloud and virtualization technologies.

• Familiarity with Ansible or other configuration-management tools.

• Knowledge of infrastructure automation and deployment tools such as Terraform, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.

• Familiarity with Git and version-control workflows.

• Experience administering identity and access-management platforms such as FreeIPA, LDAP, or Google Workspace.

Benefits:

• Fully remote working environment, with the flexibility to work from anywhere worldwide.

• Flexible working hours, allowing you to organize your schedule around your personal and professional commitments.

• 24 paid vacation days annually.

• 10 additional national holidays.

• Unlimited sick leave.

• Financial compensation toward private medical insurance.

• Reimbursement for co-working spaces and gym or sports activities.

• Dedicated professional development and education budget.

• Opportunities to work on interesting, challenging, and technically diverse infrastructure projects.

• Strong focus on continuous learning, career development, and technical growth.

• Opportunity to receive a reward for innovative ideas that have the potential to be patented.

• Collaborative, remote-first working culture that encourages ownership, knowledge sharing, and mutual support.