Remote Linux Infrastructure Engineer – Automation & SRE

Jobgether; Australia; Remote; AUD 135,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work worldwide

Flexible hours

24 paid vacation days annually

10 national holidays

Unlimited sick leave

Private medical insurance contribution

Co-working/gym reimbursement

Professional development budget

Challenging, diverse infrastructure项目

Remote-first culture

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking an Infrastructure Operations Engineer based in Australia for a fully remote, international role. You will maintain Linux-based infrastructure across cloud and on-prem environments, handle incidents, and contribute to automation while supporting distributed teams.

You will manage onboarding/offboarding, provisioning, DNS/domain changes, and security-aligned access practices, with a strong emphasis on documentation and process improvement.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Linux troubleshooting in production-like environments, preferring RHEL family distributions.
• Good working knowledge of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, TLS).
• Experience with at least one virtualization platform or cloud environment.
• Ability to independently manage technical incidents and support tickets with clear findings.
• Experience implementing standard production changes with rollback planning and verification.
• Ability to understand and modify automation scripts (Bash or Python).
• Experience using AI assistants to support troubleshooting and documentation, with independent validation.
• Strong English communication for asynchronous, remote work.
• Analytical and proactive problem-solving skills with ownership mindset.
• Ability to work effectively in a distributed team.

Responsibilities

• Manage employee onboarding, offboarding, and access-management requests with least-privilege controls.
• Own Linux and infrastructure requests and incidents from triage to resolution or escalation.
• Perform host provisioning and production-server changes across bare-metal, private cloud, and public cloud.
• Troubleshoot DNS issues and manage DNS/domain changes per guidelines.
• Implement firewall and OS changes with rollback and verification.
• Monitor performance, investigate alerts, and respond to incidents prioritizing service availability.
• Keep stakeholders updated during incident resolution until recovery is confirmed.
• Improve alert routing, escalation paths, and ownership as needed.
• Manage Jira requests with clear communication and follow-up.
• Deploy standard infrastructure services using approved runbooks; escalate design questions.
• Maintain clear operational documentation for recurring tasks and coverage.
• Identify automation opportunities in onboarding/offboarding/access management.

Skills

Linux

Networking

Cloud/Virtualization

Incident management

Scripting Bash/Python

Documentation

Communication

Tools

OpenNebula

KVM

Terraform

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Ansible

FreeIPA/LDAP/Google Workspace

Job description

Jobgether is seeking an Infrastructure Operations Engineer based in Australia for a fully remote, international role. You will maintain Linux-based infrastructure across cloud and on-prem environments, handle incidents, and contribute to automation while supporting distributed teams.

You will manage onboarding/offboarding, provisioning, DNS/domain changes, and security-aligned access practices, with a strong emphasis on documentation and process improvement.