What we’re looking for

Ideaware is looking for a Senior DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer to join our team & work on an inspiring international project with one of our global partners to take a critical role in designing, automating, and securing our virtualization and networking platform.
This unified position combines DevOps, infrastructure automation, and security best practices, emphasizing Python scripting and automation.
You will be responsible for containerizing and deploying workloads, maintaining virtualized environments, securing infrastructure, and building automation workflows for provisioning and monitoring. If you are an experienced DevOps professional with a strong infrastructure background, networking knowledge, and scripting skills, we want to hear from you!
Our partner is an innovative startup company focused on developing a cutting-edge SaaS web application that can also be deployed locally. Their platform leverages AI, including LLMs algorithms and APIs, to provide advanced features and functionalities to our users.

Responsibilities

Infrastructure & DevOps

• Design, automate, and manage deployments of virtualized environments (VergeOS, KVM/QEMU).
• Containerize workloads and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments.
• Manage and optimize cloud-init, NetBox, OpenVPN, and Pfsense configurations.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and scaling using IaC (Terraform, Ansible).
• Optimize policy-based routing and network provisioning for scalability.

Security & Systems Management

• Implement security best practices for IAM, access control, and network security.
• Maintain centralized identity management (IDP/IAM) for internal and customer systems.
• Ensure compliance with security policies, logging, and monitoring standards.
• Harden Linux, Windows, and Android VM environments against vulnerabilities.
• Set up and maintain monitoring systems (InfluxDB, Grafana) for performance, security, and capacity planning.

Automation & Scripting

• Develop Python-based scripts for automating provisioning, monitoring, and backups.
• Build automation workflows for customer onboarding, system provisioning, and upgrades.
• Enhance system observability with custom alerting and reporting scripts.
• Assist in troubleshooting by developing internal tools to streamline issue resolution.

Qualifications

- 5+ years of experience in a DevOps, Infrastructure, or Systems Engineering role.
- Expertise in containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure automation (Terraform, Ansible).
- Strong experience with Linux system administration and virtualization (KVM/QEMU).
- Experience managing firewalls, VPNs, and policy-based routing (Pfsense/OpenVPN).
- Proficiency in Python for automation, scripting, and workflow orchestration.
- Experience with security best practices (IAM, network hardening, SIEM/logging).
- Familiarity with monitoring stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, InfluxDB).
- Experience with GitLab CI/CD or equivalent deployment pipelines.

Nice to have

- Experience with VergeOS or similar virtualization platforms.
- Knowledge of cloud-init and automating VM provisioning.
- Familiarity with Windows and Android VM management.
- Exposure to network security monitoring and incident response tools.