Remote Linux Infrastructure Operations Engineer

Jobgether; New Zealand; Remote; NZD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work environment

Flexible hours

25 days PTO + 10 holidays

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking an Infrastructure Operations Engineer based in New Zealand to maintain Linux-based infrastructure across cloud and bare-metal environments. You will troubleshoot incidents, implement standard production changes, and contribute to automation and runbooks in a remote-first team.

You will collaborate with distributed colleagues, handle onboarding/offboarding requests, manage access, and continuously improve monitoring, alerting, and documentation to ensure high availability.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Linux systems in production or production-like environments.
• Proficient networking knowledge including DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS.
• Experience with at least one virtualization or cloud platform.
• Ability to independently manage incidents and support tickets with clear findings.
• Experience implementing safe production changes with rollback plans.
• Ability to modify automation scripts in Bash or Python.
• Comfort using AI tools to support troubleshooting and documentation, with validation before changes.
• Strong written and spoken English for asynchronous collaboration.
• Demonstrated ownership and attention to detail in infrastructure requests.

Responsibilities

• Manage employee onboarding, offboarding, and access management per security procedures.
• Triage, troubleshoot, and resolve Linux/infrastructure incidents or escalate.
• Provision hosts and perform production-server changes across bare-metal, private, and public cloud.
• Troubleshoot DNS issues and perform domain-management changes following guidelines.
• Implement firewall and OS changes with rollback and verification.
• Monitor performance, respond to alerts, prioritize service availability and business impact.
• Communicate incident updates to stakeholders until recovery.
• Improve alert routing and ownership; refine escalation paths.
• Handle Jira requests with clear communication and timely follow-up.
• Deploy infrastructure services per runbooks and approved specs; escalate design decisions.
• Maintain technical docs for recurring tasks and coverage.
• Identify small-scale automation opportunities (onboarding, offboarding, access reviews).
• Collaborate with distributed infrastructure teams to improve reliability and security.

Skills

Linux troubleshooting

Networking fundamentals

Cloud & virtualization

Incident management

Automation scripting (Bash/Python)

AI-assisted troubleshooting

English communication

Ownership & accountability

Remote collaboration

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

GitLab CI / Jenkins

KVM/OpenNebula

FreeIPA/LDAP

Job description

Jobgether is seeking an Infrastructure Operations Engineer based in New Zealand to maintain Linux-based infrastructure across cloud and bare-metal environments. You will troubleshoot incidents, implement standard production changes, and contribute to automation and runbooks in a remote-first team.

You will collaborate with distributed colleagues, handle onboarding/offboarding requests, manage access, and continuously improve monitoring, alerting, and documentation to ensure high availability.