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  • About the project
    The team develops and maintains distributed services around analytics, APIs, and transaction monitoring. The systems process very large volumes of data — terabytes of storage, trillions of records, continuously growing load.

    Infrastructure:

    ~100 servers (bare metal + VPS)
    active use of IaC
    Kubernetes clusters in production
    focus on stability, observability, and automation

    The project is long-term — not a hype startup, but a mature product with real users.

    What the work looks like
    This is a hands-on role with a clear time allocation:

    60% — operations and incidents (including helping teams)
    20% — infrastructure automation
    20% — prototyping, improvements, technical initiatives

    There is on-call responsibility, but normally after-hours incidents happen 2–3 times a year, not every week.

    Responsibilities
    Operation of production services and infrastructure (server provisioning/decommissioning, updates, replacements, performance troubleshooting)
    Support and development of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / Ansible: modules, roles, standards, reviews)
    Monitoring, alerting, backups, and regular recovery checks
    Development of service and infrastructure automation
    Development of CI/CD and release procedures
    Incident diagnosis and resolution, support for product teams
    Traffic analytics, bot and attack protection tools
    Responsibility for 24/7 platform stability

    Requirements

    What’s important
    4+ years of experience operating Linux/Ubuntu infrastructure and production services
    Strong understanding of networking and troubleshooting
    Kubernetes (cluster operations), Rancher, Docker / containerd
    Hands-on experience with Ansible and Terraform
    Monitoring: Prometheus / Thanos / Telegraf / Grafana / Sentry
    CI/CD: Jenkins
    Automation: Bash, Python
    Experience working with LVM

    Nice to have
    Experience working with blockchain nodes
    Diagnosis and tuning of ClickHouse and MongoDB in high-load clusters
    Providers: Hetzner / OVHcloud
    Cloudflare (edge, DDoS), experience with AWS
    Handling abuse tickets with hosting providers

    Technology stack
    VPN: WireGuard, OpenVPN
    Databases: ClickHouse, MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL
    Applications: Node.js (pm2), php-fpm, Lua, Tarantool
    Supporting services: Go (operatorSDK), Ruby, Node.js, PHP

    Benefits

    5,000 – 8,000 € net

    Format: office / hybrid / remote

    Location: Spain (Barcelona and suburbs) or remote (CET ±2)

    Full-time

    Opportunity to genuinely influence architecture and processes

    Mature engineering team and reasonable expectations

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