Remote Linux Infrastructure Engineer - Ops & Automation

Jobgether; Schweiz; Remote; CHF 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work worldwide

Flexible hours

Professional development budget

Co-working/ gym reimbursement

Paid vacation and holidays

Private medical insurance support

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking an Infrastructure Operations Engineer based in Switzerland to maintain and improve Linux-based infrastructure across private and public clouds. You will troubleshoot incidents, manage changes, and contribute to automation in a remote-first, international environment.

The role emphasizes ownership, proactive problem solving, and collaboration with distributed teams, handling onboarding/offboarding, access management, DNS, firewall changes, and runbooks.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience troubleshooting Linux systems in production-like environments, preferably RHEL-family.
• Solid networking knowledge: TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, TLS, and OS/network/application issue isolation.
• Proven virtualization or cloud platform experience.
• Demonstrated ability to manage incidents, gather evidence, assess impact, prioritize tasks, and escalate with clear findings.
• Experience implementing safe production changes with rollback and verification.
• Ability to modify scripts in Bash or Python and develop small improvements.
• Experience using AI assistants to support troubleshooting and documentation, with independent validation.
• Strong written and spoken English for asynchronous, remote work.
• Analytical mindset with proactive issue resolution.
• Ownership, accountability, and attention to detail in handling infrastructure requests.
• Excellent communication and collaboration in distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Onboard/offboard users and manage access with least-privilege principles.
• Triage, troubleshoot, and resolve Linux and infra incidents or escalate as needed.
• Provision hosts across bare-metal, private cloud, and public cloud following procedures.
• Troubleshoot DNS and perform domain management changes per guidelines.
• Apply firewall and OS changes with rollback and verification.
• Monitor performance, respond to alerts, and minimize service impact.
• Keep stakeholders updated through incident resolution until recovery is verified.
• Improve alert routing and ownership to reduce noise.
• Manage Jira requests with clear communication and SLAs.
• Deploy standard services per specs and runbooks; escalate architectural decisions.
• Maintain and improve technical runbooks and docs.
• Identify automation opportunities across onboarding, access management, and reviews.
• Collaborate with distributed infra teams to ensure reliability and security.

Skills

Linux troubleshooting

Networking fundamentals

Virtualization/cloud platforms

Incident management

Automation scripting (Bash/Python)

AI-assisted troubleshooting

English communication

Ownership and accountability

Team collaboration

OpenNebula/KVM

Terraform/GitLab CI/Jenkins

Access-management experience

Tools

KVM

OpenNebula

Terraform

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Ansible

Terraform

FreeIPA/LDAP

Job description

Jobgether is seeking an Infrastructure Operations Engineer based in Switzerland to maintain and improve Linux-based infrastructure across private and public clouds. You will troubleshoot incidents, manage changes, and contribute to automation in a remote-first, international environment.

The role emphasizes ownership, proactive problem solving, and collaboration with distributed teams, handling onboarding/offboarding, access management, DNS, firewall changes, and runbooks.