Network Operations Engineer

Spaceflux; Italia; Remote; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work from Italy

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Spaceflux is recruiting a Network Operations Engineer for a remote role based in Italy. You will monitor a global optical sensor network, ensure data flow, and participate in a 24/7 on-call routine.

The position requires hands-on experience with always-on remote systems, strong troubleshooting skills, and fluent English (Italian a plus). You will coordinate with on-site teams when remote recovery fails and contribute to incident response and tooling.

Qualifications

• In-depth experience operating an always-on, remotely run technical system.
• Fluent English; Italian a plus.
• Willing to observe rotating after-hours across time zones.
• Experience with telescope networks, observatory automation, or on-call work is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Monitor telescopes and data flow across the daily cycle.
• Manage a shared out-of-hours rota and make calls in marginal weather.
• Diagnose and fix first-line faults (remote restarts, roof/dome recovery, connectivity).
• Coordinate on-site teams when remote recovery fails.
• Run incident response in the monitoring platform and help write procedures and tooling.

Skills

Remote systems operations

Troubleshooting & remote access

Networking & monitoring

English proficiency

Job description

Spaceflux is recruiting a Network Operations Engineer in Remote, Italy.

Contract: full time (remote).

Language: English (fluent); Italian a plus.

Work experience: Operations of always‑on remote systems.

The role covers second operator for Spaceflux's global optical sensor network: monitor telescopes and data flow through the daily cycle and a shared out‑of‑hours rota, make open/close calls in marginal weather, diagnose and fix first‑line faults (remote restarts, roof/dome recovery, connectivity), coordinate on‑site teams when remote recovery fails, run incident response in the monitoring platform and help write procedures and tooling.

Requirements

• Hands‑on experience operating an always‑on, remotely run technical system (telescope network, satellite ground segment, NOC or similar); comfortable troubleshooting PCs, remote access, networking, logs and monitoring; practical, adaptable, knows when to elevate; happy with observing‑driven hours across time zones; fluent English.
• Telescope, observatory automation and on‑call experience are nice to have.

Offer

• Remote working from Italy, employed through Spaceflux Italia Srl, with competitive compensation commensurate with experience.
• A small, mission‑driven team with a path from operating the network to designing how it is run.

No application deadline is stated.