Lead/Senior DevOps Engineer

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)
• It will be Permanent Employment for Spain and Germany-based candidates.

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