Remote Linux Infrastructure & Automation Engineer

Jobgether; Nederland; Remote; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Flexible hours

24 vacation days annually

10 national holidays

Unlimited sick leave

Private medical insurance contribution

Co-working/gym reimbursement

Professional development budget

Remote-first culture

Job summary

Jobgether is partnering with a client to hire an Infrastructure Operations Engineer in the Netherlands. You will manage Linux-based infrastructure across bare-metal, private cloud, and public cloud environments, handling incidents, provisioning, DNS, firewall changes, and automation tasks in a remote-first, international setting.

You will contribute to monitoring, documentation, and operational improvements while collaborating with distributed teams and ensuring service availability.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience troubleshooting Linux systems in production-like environments, preferably RHEL family.
• Strong working knowledge of networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, TLS, and related issues.
• Experience with at least one virtualization platform or cloud environment.
• Ability to independently manage incidents and support tickets with clear findings and escalation when needed.
• Experience implementing standard production changes with rollback planning and post-implementation verification.
• Ability to modify automation scripts using Bash or Python.
• Experience using AI assistants to support troubleshooting with validation of outputs.
• Strong written and spoken English for asynchronous remote work.
• Ownership, accountability, and attention to detail in infrastructure requests.

Responsibilities

• Manage onboarding/offboarding and access requests per security procedures.
• Take ownership of Linux and infrastructure requests from triage to resolution or escalation.
• Perform host provisioning and production-server changes across metal, private, and public clouds.
• Troubleshoot DNS issues and perform DNS/domain changes.
• Implement firewall and OS changes with rollback and verification.
• Monitor performance, investigate alerts, and respond to incidents with business impact focus.
• Keep stakeholders informed with updates until service recovery.
• Improve alert routing and ownership; reduce alert noise.
• Manage Jira requests per priorities and response times.
• Deploy infrastructure services using approved runbooks and escalate design decisions when needed.
• Maintain clear technical documentation for recurring operations.
• Identify small-scale automation opportunities (onboarding, access mgmt, reviews).
• Collaborate with distributed infra teams to improve reliability and security.

Skills

Linux troubleshooting

Networking fundamentals

Incident management

Automation scripting (Bash or Python)

Documentation

English communication

Ownership

Problem solving

Tools

Virtualization platforms

Terraform

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Ansible

Job description

Jobgether is partnering with a client to hire an Infrastructure Operations Engineer in the Netherlands. You will manage Linux-based infrastructure across bare-metal, private cloud, and public cloud environments, handling incidents, provisioning, DNS, firewall changes, and automation tasks in a remote-first, international setting.

You will contribute to monitoring, documentation, and operational improvements while collaborating with distributed teams and ensuring service availability.