Platform Engineer, SRE

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Ukraine.

📋 Description

• Take charge of the operational lifecycle for Linux-based runtime hosts.

• Enhance and maintain internal host configuration, deployment, and management tools.

• Oversee Linux system configuration and services utilizing systemd and other Linux-native tools.

• Automate the processes of host provisioning, configuration, upgrades, validation, and recovery.

• Set up and resolve issues related to host-level networking and runtime environments.

• Construct, package, validate, maintain, and troubleshoot AWS AMIs for production runtime settings.

• Assume responsibility for improving AMI creation and release workflows.

• Manage and troubleshoot AWS EC2-based runtime infrastructure.

• Oversee integration between machine images, runtime software, system configuration, and deployment automation.

• Assist with hardware accelerator integration within AWS environments.

• Contribute to the evolution of deployment mechanisms for customer-hosted and on-premises environments.

• Define and enforce Linux server hardening standards and secure host configurations.

• Implement least-privilege principles to minimize the attack surface.

• Collaborate with the CISO to address vulnerabilities and enhance host security.

• Create and maintain production dashboards, actionable alerts, telemetry pipelines, and operational diagnostics.

• Define and implement SLIs and SLOs for essential platform components.

• Establish measurements for availability and uptime to support SLA commitments.

• Engage in incident response, root-cause analysis, and reliability enhancements.

• Operate centralized metrics, logging, and telemetry infrastructure.

• Deploy and maintain systems such as Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Mimir, ClickHouse, and Fluent Bit.

• Develop automation and operational tools using Python, Bash, and Linux tools.

• Enhance workflows related to release, deployment, upgrades, and rollbacks.

• Support CI/CD and infrastructure automation initiatives.

• Collaborate with teams in software, networking, security, and hardware engineering.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, Linux Systems Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.

• Proficient in Linux systems administration and troubleshooting, including systemd, processes, networking, filesystems, permissions, kernel configuration, and system-level debugging.

• Extensive hands-on experience with AWS, especially in EC2, networking, IAM, storage, and production Linux workloads.

• Strong background in AWS AMIs, including building, configuring, hardening, validating, versioning, and maintaining production machine images.

• Solid experience with Linux server hardening and production security practices.

• Hands-on familiarity with Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Mimir, ClickHouse, Fluent Bit, or similar observability technologies.

• Experience in developing production monitoring, dashboards, metrics, logging, and alerting solutions.

• Understanding of SRE principles, including SLIs, SLOs, availability, incident response, and root-cause analysis.

• Proficient in scripting for automation and operational tooling using Python and Bash.

• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, routing, DNS, TLS, and secure connectivity.

• Experience in automating machine provisioning, configuration, deployment, and upgrades.

• Capability to independently troubleshoot complex issues across infrastructure, operating systems, networking, and application runtime.

• Strong sense of ownership and responsibility for systems from deployment through operational stages.

• Nice to have: Linux performance tuning, high-performance or low-latency networking, DPDK, FPGA or hardware accelerators, customer-managed/on-prem environments, PKI/certificate management/TLS/mTLS, Terraform, GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD, vulnerability management, SOC 2, and startup/high-growth experience.

🏝️ Benefits

• Security: carefully vetted clients to minimize risks and ensure reliable and timely payments.

• Career support and assistance in finding new project opportunities.

• Legal assistance with independent contractor or sole proprietorship status, taxes, and related processes.

• English courses.

• Opportunities for professional growth.

• Team-building events.

• Flexible working hours.

• 29 days of PTO (18 working days per year plus all national holidays).

• 10 paid recovery days.

• Comprehensive financial and legal support for independent contractors.

• Free English classes with native speakers or Ukrainian instructors.

• Dedicated HR support.