- Fully Remote Role
- Up to €125k/year + 20% bonus + benefits OR Strong daily rate
- Opportunity to progress into a CTO role
The role involves owning and evolving a mission-critical communications platform across Linux, AWS and colocated infrastructure, while shaping automation, observability, reliability and engineering standards in a real-time communications environment.
It’s the kind of role where technical influence is very visible and there’s room to grow into wider technology leadership over time.
No sponsorship available at this time.
Your Role:
- Design, deploy, monitor, and maintain robust Linux-based infrastructure across colocation data centers and AWS cloud environments.
- Lead the Incident Response and Business Continuity planning, including active participation during maintenance windows and escalations.
- Support the development team by refining CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment practices.
- Oversee infrastructure monitoring and optimization using modern observability tools.
- Act as a senior escalation point for the Level 3 Support team.
- Directly manage a small team of system engineers, driving accountability and growth.
- Help set and enforce security and reliability standards that align with industry best practices.
Your Experience:
- 10+ years of experience in a senior-level systems or site reliability engineering role.
- Proven experience building and scaling high-availability, distributed systems.
- Deep expertise in Unix/Linux systems administration.
- Strong relational database management knowledge: MySQL/MariaDB including replication and scaling methods.
- Advanced knowledge of networking: iptables, nftables, VLAN, BGP.
- VoIP proficiency: SIP, RTP, WebRTC, and experience with Asterisk, FreeSwitch, Kamailio, or OpenSIPS.
- Solid AWS or similar public cloud knowledge and experience
- Skilled with automation/configuration tools like Ansible or Puppet.
- Hands-on experience with monitoring stacks such as ELK Stack, Prometheus, Grafana.
- Experience with Message Queuing systems (RabbitMQ, NATS, or similar).
- Scripting experience in at least two server-side languages: Bash, Go, PHP.
- Virtualization and containerization expertise: VMWare, Proxmox, Docker.
- Strong grasp of cybersecurity best practices.
- Excellent communication skills in both written and spoken English.
Please apply directly or contact me for further information [email protected].
