Remote Linux Infra Operations Engineer — Automation & Cloud

Jobgether; Portugal; Remote; EUR 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work environment

Flexible working hours

24 paid vacation days annually

Unlimited sick leave

Private medical insurance contribution

Co-working spaces reimbursement

Professional development budget

Remote-first culture

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking an Infrastructure Operations Engineer to maintain Linux-based infrastructure across cloud and on‑prem environments. This remote-first role offers exposure to bare-metal, private and public clouds, with a focus on reliability and automation.

You will own incident triage, provisioning, DNS and network tasks, and collaborate with distributed teams to improve runbooks and documentation while preserving security and service availability.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience troubleshooting Linux systems in production-like environments.
• Good working knowledge of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, TLS).
• Practical experience with at least one virtualization platform or cloud environment.
• Proven ability to manage incidents, gather evidence, prioritize tasks, and communicate progress.
• Experience implementing standard production changes with rollback planning.
• Ability to modify automation scripts using Bash or Python.
• Experience using AI assistants to support troubleshooting and documentation.
• Strong written and spoken English for asynchronous remote work.
• Analytical, proactive problem-solving with strong ownership.
• Effective communication and collaboration in a distributed team.

Responsibilities

• Manage employee onboarding, offboarding, and access-management requests.
• Triage and troubleshoot Linux and infrastructure incidents to resolution or escalation.
• Perform host provisioning and production-server changes across multiple environments.
• Troubleshoot DNS issues and perform domain-management changes.
• Implement firewall and OS changes with rollback and verification.
• Monitor infrastructure performance and respond to incidents with business impact in mind.
• Keep stakeholders informed with regular incident updates and recovery status.
• Improve alert routing and ownership to reduce noise.
• Manage Jira requests with priorities and timely communication.
• Deploy infrastructure services using approved runbooks and escalate design decisions when needed.
• Maintain clear technical documentation for recurring tasks.
• Identify opportunities to automate onboarding, offboarding, and access-management processes.
• Collaborate with distributed infrastructure teams to maintain reliability and security.

Skills

Linux troubleshooting

Networking fundamentals

Cloud/Virtualization

Incident management

Automation with Bash or Python

AI-assisted troubleshooting

English communication

Ownership & accountability

Remote collaboration

Tools

OpenNebula

KVM

Terraform

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Ansible

FreeIPA

LDAP

Job description

Jobgether is seeking an Infrastructure Operations Engineer to maintain Linux-based infrastructure across cloud and on‑prem environments. This remote-first role offers exposure to bare-metal, private and public clouds, with a focus on reliability and automation.

You will own incident triage, provisioning, DNS and network tasks, and collaborate with distributed teams to improve runbooks and documentation while preserving security and service availability.