We’re looking for a **Lead/Senior DevOps Engineer** to lead the infrastructure strategy and automation behind our **Enterprise VPN** and **Zero Trust networking platform**. This role is essential to ensuring product services and customer\-deployed gateways are secure, scalable, and always\-on. You’ll own our **infrastructure\-as\-code**, CI/CD pipelines, system observability, and secure deployment practices across **public\-hosted** and **customer\-deployed** environments. As a key member of the **founding team**, you’ll shape our **technical strategy**, **engineering practices**, and **system resilience**. Your decisions will influence both product direction and company growth. **Our philosophy is that we are a small, close\-knit team, and we care deeply about you:** * Competitive pay rates * Fully remote work environments * Self\-managed time off **Important:** * This is a full\-time remote job, and it will be **a long\-term** **B2B contract** (on our website in the JD, you can see the locations for this role) * This will be **a permanent employment** opportunity for candidates based in **Spain, Germany, Romania, and Poland**. If you prefer a B2B contract, please indicate it in your application form. **Your contribution will include:** * Design and implement **scalable cloud infrastructure** using **AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker;** * Operate and optimize **Linux\-based environments** running gateways and services * Build and maintain **robust CI/CD pipelines** (e.g., GitHub Actions) for backend and desktop applications * Automate deployment, monitoring, and **security hardening** of **VPN infrastructure** * Manage **secrets, TLS certificates, firewall rules**, and secure service configurations * Define and enforce **observability practices** (dashboards, alerts, metrics, disaster recovery) * Contribute to **incident response** and **live site operations**, including root cause analysis and remediation * Support internal dev environments, onboarding flows, and infrastructure for developer productivity * Collaborate with engineers to integrate **DevSecOps** principles into build and deployment workflows **You’ll be a great fit if you have the following:** * 6\+ years of experience in **DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering** roles * Deep knowledge of **Linux/Unix systems administration** * Strong experience with **Terraform**, **Kubernetes**, **Docker**, and cloud providers (AWS required; GCP or Azure a plus) * Experience deploying and managing **high\-availability**, **distributed**, and **multi\-tenant** systems * Familiarity with **CI/CD best practices**, Git\-based workflows, and build/release automation * Solid understanding of **networking fundamentals** (TCP/IP, VPNs, routing, firewalls, DNS, TLS, etc) * Experience with **Infrastructure as Code** (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, etc.) * Understanding of the full software lifecycle: standards, version control, testing, release, and operations * Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language (**Python**, **Bash**, or **Go**) * Exposure to **AI Ops** tools and techniques (log correlation, anomaly detection, predictive scaling) **Bonus points for:** * Experience with OpenVPN or other network tunneling/security tools * Familiarity with **Cloudflare** (i.e. DNS, WAF, Zero Trust configuration) * Exposure to **DevSecOps practices**, including secrets management, policy\-as\-code, and vulnerability scanning * Experience deploying or managing **SQL and NoSQL** systems (e.g., PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDB) * Familiarity with observability tooling: **Prometheus**, **Grafana**, **ELK**, **CloudWatch**, **Datadog**, or **OpenTelemetry** * Experience with **security event logging**, **anomaly detection**, or **compliance logging** * Experience with platforms like **Datadog APM**, **New Relic**, **Splunk**, or custom ML\-based monitoring * Experience mentoring or leading junior engineers or cross\-functional infrastructure efforts * Knowledge of enterprise deployment models, network segmentation, and policy\-based access control * Experience in cybersecurity and/or startups