Senior Infrastructure Operations Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><strong>About IP Fabric </strong></h3> <p><span data-contrast="none">Join a pioneering force in network automation! </span></p> <p><span class="TextRun SCXW160894911 BCX0" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW160894911 BCX0">At IP Fabric, we enable people to uncover the truth about their networks. </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW160894911 BCX0" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW160894911 BCX0">Built by network professionals and industry experts, our innovative solutions are transforming how enterprises manage their networks. As a post-Series B company, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW160894911 BCX0">we're</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW160894911 BCX0"> expanding rapidly across Europe, the U.S., and beyond.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW160894911 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":279}"> </span></p></div><h3 data-local-id="aec3a04b6e0d" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="heading" data-prosemirror-node-block="true" data-pm-slice="1 1 []">About the Role</h3> <p data-renderer-start-pos="134" data-local-id="ed3a8cc04322">At IP Fabric, we help the world's largest enterprises understand and assure their networks. Behind our product is a platform our engineering teams rely on every day, and that is where you come in.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="332" data-local-id="b0b9e37118e4">As an <strong data-renderer-mark="true">Infra Ops Engineer</strong>, you'll join a small, hands-on infrastructure team that runs our internal platform: Hetzner infrastructure, Linux servers, hypervisors, all managed as code with Puppet and Ansible. You'll keep things reliable, share on-call (business hours only), and above all <strong data-renderer-mark="true">make things better</strong>: leading infra projects that make engineering faster, automating repetitive work and increasing resiliency.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="746" data-local-id="6843d651c4fe">We see internal engineers as our customers. Communication, ownership and a proactive, helpful attitude matter here as much as technical skill.</p> <h3 data-local-id="3102d1361cc6" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="heading" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">What You'll Do</h3> <ul> <li data-renderer-start-pos="908" data-local-id="59c13cf3fe85"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Support engineering as our customer</strong>, with the infrastructure they need.</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="983" data-local-id="c799441f9cbf">Own and deliver <strong data-renderer-mark="true">significant infrastructure projects</strong> end to end, from proposal and planning through rollout and documentation</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1111" data-local-id="7861e927670f"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Bring fresh ideas</strong> and challenge the status quo constructively</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1176" data-local-id="ee2fdcb8ca4a">Operate and improve our Linux-based infrastructure across Hetzner VMs (together with Proxmox hypervisors, bare-metal machines etc), using Puppet and Ansible.</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1337" data-local-id="8375293e0a11">Take part in a weekly, <strong data-renderer-mark="true">business-hours on-call rotation</strong>: handle requests from engineers, respond to monitoring alerts and run upgrades</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1474" data-local-id="79526f7bc5e0">Improve monitoring, alerting and observability so issues are caught before engineers notice them</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1574" data-local-id="13a53919674f">Share knowledge through documentation, runbooks and pairing, to raise the team's bus factor</li> </ul> <h3 data-local-id="a318476a32b9" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="heading" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">What You'll Need</h3> <ul> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1687" data-local-id="8392b205c996">A <strong data-renderer-mark="true">service-minded attitude</strong> towards the engineers you support</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1750" data-local-id="83e2dc1a9d21">A track record of <strong data-renderer-mark="true">owning improvements proactively</strong>, not just executing tickets</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1831" data-local-id="308754dd6f01">Strong <strong data-renderer-mark="true">Linux administration</strong> and troubleshooting skills in production environments</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1916" data-local-id="9d6af26c5c78">Configuration management tool experience - SaltStack, Chef, Ansible, Puppet</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1996" data-local-id="c50c1be29684">Solid scripting in <strong data-renderer-mark="true">Bash and Python</strong> for automation</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="2049" data-local-id="ca02c3668355">Experience with <strong data-renderer-mark="true">monitoring and alerting</strong> tools</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="2098" data-local-id="27002409e8d9">Experience with on-call or operational responsibility, and a calm, structured approach to incidents</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="2201" data-local-id="dfd9e5a8dea3">Clear communication in <strong data-renderer-mark="true">English</strong> (spoken and written)</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="2201" data-local-id="dfd9e5a8dea3">EU citizenship or other eligibility to work in the E