Platform Engineer, SRE

• Own the operational lifecycle of Linux-based runtime hosts
• Maintain and evolve internal host configuration, deployment, and management tooling
• Manage Linux system configuration and services using systemd and Linux-native tooling
• Automate host provisioning, configuration, upgrades, validation, and recovery
• Configure and troubleshoot host-level networking and runtime environments
• Build, package, validate, maintain, and troubleshoot AWS AMIs for production runtime environments
• Own and improve AMI creation and release processes
• Operate and troubleshoot AWS EC2-based runtime infrastructure
• Manage integration between machine images, runtime software, system configuration, and deployment automation
• Support hardware accelerator integration in AWS environments
• Help evolve deployment mechanisms toward customer-hosted and on-prem environments
• Define and implement Linux server-hardening standards and secure host configuration
• Apply least-privilege principles and reduce attack surface
• Work with the CISO to remediate vulnerabilities and improve host security
• Build and maintain production dashboards, actionable alerts, telemetry pipelines, and operational diagnostics
• Define and implement SLIs and SLOs for critical platform components
• Establish availability and uptime measurements supporting SLA commitments
• Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and reliability improvements
• Operate centralized metrics, logging, and telemetry infrastructure
• Deploy and maintain Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus-compatible systems, Mimir, ClickHouse, and Fluent Bit
• Build automation and operational tooling using Python, Bash, and Linux tooling
• Improve release, deployment, upgrade, and rollback workflows
• Support CI/CD and infrastructure automation
• Collaborate with software, networking, security, and hardware engineering teams

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, Linux Systems Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering
• Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting, including systemd, processes, networking, filesystems, permissions, kernel configuration, and system-level debugging
• Strong hands-on AWS experience, particularly EC2, networking, IAM, storage, and production Linux workloads
• Strong experience with AWS AMIs, including building, configuring, hardening, validating, versioning, and maintaining production machine images
• Strong experience with Linux server hardening and production security practices
• Hands-on experience with Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Mimir, ClickHouse, Fluent Bit, or comparable observability technologies
• Experience building production monitoring, dashboards, metrics, logging, and alerting solutions
• Understanding of SRE principles, including SLIs, SLOs, availability, incident response, and root-cause analysis
• Experience writing automation and operational tooling using Python and Bash
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP, routing, DNS, TLS, and secure connectivity
• Experience automating machine provisioning, configuration, deployment, and upgrades
• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues spanning infrastructure, operating systems, networking, and application runtime independently
• Strong ownership mindset and responsibility for systems from deployment through production operation
• 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, startup/high-growth experience

• Security: carefully vetted clients to minimize risks and ensure reliability and timely payments
• Career support and assistance finding new project opportunities
• Legal assistance with independent contractor or sole proprietorship status, taxes, and related processes
• English courses
• Professional growth opportunities
• Team-building events
• Flexible working hours
• 29 days of PTO (18 working days per year plus all national holidays)
• 10 paid recovery days
• Full financial and legal support for independent contractors
• Free English classes with native speakers or Ukrainian teachers
• Dedicated HR support