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This is a hands-on role for someone who treats reliability as an engineering discipline, not a fire drill, and enjoys large-scale automation, Linux networking, incident response, and performance tuning in complex production environments.\nIf you want to:\nAutomate and scale the deployment of thousands of VPN servers across a global fleet, and design out single points of failure;\n\nBuild reliable monitoring, logging, and anomaly detection that catches issues before they become incidents;\n\nTroubleshoot complex issues across Linux systems, networking, VPN protocols, and proxy layers;\n\nReduce repetitive manual work with automation and internal tooling, from scripts to n8n workflows and Jira integrations;\n\nPartner with software engineers to optimize the infrastructure and improve tooling, CI/CD, and reliability processes;\n\nLead incident response, postmortems, disaster recovery readiness, and long-term performance work.\n\nAnd you can check off:\nProven experience in SRE or similar roles, with real ownership of production-critical systems at scale;\n\nStrong Linux systems and networking knowledge, including DNS, VPNs, routing, firewalls, and proxies;\n\nSolid experience with Ansible and infrastructure automation in production, and scripting skills (Bash/Python) for operational automation;\n\nExperience with monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting performance and reliability issues at scale;\n\nFamiliarity with GitLab CI/CD, incident management, disaster recovery, and secure infrastructure practices;\n\nComfort using AI tools (Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) to reduce manual work, and the judgment to check their output for security and performance.\n\nBonus points if you:\nHave experience with bare-metal provisioning and network boot (iPXE/PXE), hardware lifecycle, and out-of-band management;\n\nHave coordinated with hosting or colo providers through remote-hands and provider APIs;\n\nHave operated other latency-sensitive, globally distributed services, or driven cross-team architecture decisions.\n\nHere’s the deal:\nGrowth and learning opportunities: time dedicated to learning, conferences, online learning platforms, and books for your professional development;\n\nHealth and wellness: we want you to feel and be your best. 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