Senior Infrastructure Operations Engineer

Posted 15hrs ago

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Senior Infrastructure Operations Engineer running Linux, Hetzner, and infrastructure-as-code systems. Improving reliability and automation for IP Fabric’s network-automation platform.

Responsibilities:

  • Support engineering as our customer with the infrastructure they need
  • Own and deliver significant infrastructure projects end to end, from proposal and planning through rollout and documentation
  • Bring fresh ideas and challenge the status quo constructively
  • Operate and improve Linux-based infrastructure across Hetzner VMs, Proxmox hypervisors, and bare-metal machines using Puppet and Ansible
  • Participate in a weekly business-hours on-call rotation, handle engineer requests, respond to monitoring alerts, and run upgrades
  • Improve monitoring, alerting, and observability
  • Share knowledge through documentation, runbooks, and pairing
  • Make infrastructure more reliable, improve engineering speed, automate repetitive work, and increase resiliency

Requirements:

  • Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills in production environments
  • Configuration management tool experience - SaltStack, Chef, Ansible, Puppet
  • Solid scripting in Bash and Python for automation
  • Experience with monitoring and alerting tools
  • Experience with on-call or operational responsibility, and a calm, structured approach to incidents
  • Clear communication in English (spoken and written)
  • EU citizenship or other eligibility to work in the EU
  • Service-minded attitude towards the engineers you support
  • Track record of owning improvements proactively
  • Bonus: Experience with Hetzner or other dedicated/bare-metal hosting
  • Bonus: Ansible
  • Bonus: Proxmox or other KVM-based virtualisation
  • Bonus: GitLab CI/CD pipelines and runners

Benefits:

  • 25 days of holidays + 5 flexi-days.
  • Pluxee Flexi Card (up to 16 000 CZK per year - valid only for Czech employees)
  • Anniversary rewards.
  • Collaboration with diverse, international teams.
  • A pet-friendly office in the center of beautiful Prague.
  • Complementary and yummy snacks, coffee, brew and refreshments in the office.
  • Regular team and company events.
  • Flexible environment prioritizing work-life balance and growth opportunities.