Cloud Systems Administrator - Remote (GCP/AWS)

Lever, Inc.; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work flexibility

Exposure to agentic AI and cutting‑edg

Job summary

Lever, Inc. is seeking a Systems Administrator for a fully remote position based in the Netherlands.

You will manage cloud-hosted research apps, AI frameworks, and scientific SaaS platforms, across GCP and AWS, with a focus on security, IAM, and modern identities. This role spans containerized environments, CI/CD, and IaC workflows, collaborating with scientists, developers, and data engineers to ensure resilience and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Technology, or a related technical discipline.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in systems and cloud administration within production environments across GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Strong proficiency in Linux administration, Docker containers, Python environments, API management, and core networking protocols (DNS, TLS, load balancing).
• Robust knowledge of cloud security, IAM, SSO, OAuth, secrets management, and container orchestration platforms such as Cloud Run or Kubernetes.
• Demonstrated experience with CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code, monitoring and observability tools, and ITSM ticketing platforms (ServiceNow, Jira).
• Excellent troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills with a strong capacity for cross-functional collaboration.
• Preferred experience with Vertex AI, agentic AI orchestration, MCP servers, hybrid-cloud setups, scientific computing/bioinformatics platforms, or relevant security certifications.

Responsibilities

• Administer GCP and AWS cloud projects, managing IAM, service accounts, RBAC, SSO, OAuth, networking, storage, compute, and third-party SaaS integrations.
• Operate and maintain Cloud Run, Docker containers, container registries, DNS, TLS certificates, load balancers, and Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP).
• Support agentic AI tools, MCP servers, APIs, machine-to-machine authentication, secret management, API keys, and model integration frameworks.
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code workflows, ensuring automated security scanning, testing, deployment traceability, and Python dependency management.
• Monitor system health, performance metrics, logs, token usage, and cloud expenses, proactively mitigating service disruptions, model/tool failures, and API quota limits.
• Manage incident response, root-cause analysis, disaster recovery, vulnerability remediation, and service request tickets using ServiceNow and Jira.
• Identify unmanaged shadow AI services or overprivileged identities, while producing comprehensive operational runbooks and technical documentation for production deployments.

Skills

Linux admin

Docker

Python

API management

Cloud security

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

ServiceNow

Jira

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Cloud Run

GCP

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

ServiceNow

Jira

Job description

Lever, Inc. is seeking a Systems Administrator for a fully remote position based in the Netherlands.

You will manage cloud-hosted research apps, AI frameworks, and scientific SaaS platforms, across GCP and AWS, with a focus on security, IAM, and modern identities. This role spans containerized environments, CI/CD, and IaC workflows, collaborating with scientists, developers, and data engineers to ensure resilience and cost efficiency.