Infrastructure Engineer | Senior

What we're building

BlancVPN runs a privacy service used by hundreds of thousands of people across the world — which means a distributed fleet of servers that has to stay fast, resilient, and always on. We're looking for an Infrastructure Engineer | Senior to own that fleet: the automation, monitoring, networking, and VPN protocols that keep the service reliable no matter where a user connects from.

This is a hands-on operations role for someone who's happiest when the system runs itself — automating the routine, catching problems before users do, and expanding the network without dropping availability.

What we're looking for

Core Requirements

- Fluent Russian and English (B2+)
- 5+ years in infrastructure, systems, or SRE operations
- Confident Linux and general *nix administration: system internals, troubleshooting, and kernel or network tuning
- Hands-on Ansible: writing roles and playbooks, with a solid understanding of IaC principles
- Experience with containerization and Docker Swarm
- Practical experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, and exporters
- Solid networking fundamentals: OSI model, TCP/IP stack, routing, DNS, and iptables/nftables
- Experience administering VPN protocols such as WireGuard, OpenVPN, IPsec/IKEv2, Xray, and Amnezia
- Scripting skills in Bash, Python, or Go

Nice-to-have

- Understanding of LXD-based virtualization
- Experience with BGP
- Experience operating traffic-balancing and high-availability systems at scale

What you'll be doing

Operations and Automation

- Own infrastructure operations: administer and support a distributed fleet of dedicated servers and virtual machines
- Build monitoring and response systems: configure and maintain a full Prometheus-based monitoring and alerting stack
- Automate routine operations, node configuration, and deployment workflows with Ansible

Network and Availability

- Expand the network: roll out new services and integrate new locations into the shared infrastructure
- Maintain high availability: operate traffic-balancing systems that keep services resilient
- Join a paid 24/7 on-call rotation for fast incident response

What we offer

🌍 Work from anywhere — fully remote (except Russia, Belarus, China, Syria, Iran, Yemen, North Korea, and some other regions)
🗓️ Flexible 5-day week — start when it suits you; loosely aligned to CET
⏱️ Overtime is paid separately — on-call and incident work is compensated
💻 Full home-office setup — all the equipment you need, on us
🌴 40 flexible paid days off + paid sick leave
❤️ Benefits — VHI, wellness, language courses, mental health support and a referral program 📈 Room to grow — annual development budget + in-person team meet-ups

Stages

👋 Welcome Call
🛠️ Technical Call
🤝 Pre-Offer Call