IT Infrastructure & Operations Engineer

📋 Job Overview

We are toogeza, a Ukrainian recruiting company that is focused on hiring talents and building teams for tech startups worldwide. Currently, we are looking for a IT Infrastructure & Operations Engineer (SysOps) for Roosh.

Location: EU
Work Model: Remote

🏢 About Roosh Investment Group

Roosh Investment Group scales remarkable businesses globally. We're a dedicated team of investors, entrepreneurs and operators. With over 10 years of expertise, we act as partners in growing businesses rather than mere financial backers.

🎯 The Role

We are looking for an experienced, hands-on Senior IT Infrastructure & Operations Engineer to take end-to-end ownership of our infrastructure operations.

You will be the primary technical owner responsible for the stability, availability, security, performance, and recoverability of our business-critical IT infrastructure.

This is a highly autonomous role. We expect you to independently manage daily infrastructure operations, resolve complex technical issues, plan and execute changes, identify operational risks, and continuously improve infrastructure reliability.

You will report to the Head of IT, who will provide strategic direction, architectural oversight, and approval for major infrastructure decisions.

We value sound engineering judgment, transparency, accountability, and operational discipline just as much as technical expertise.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end technical ownership of infrastructure operations, including physical servers, virtualization platforms, operating systems, networking, and supporting services.
• Independently maintain, troubleshoot, and improve Windows Server and Linux environments.
• Administer virtualization platforms, including Proxmox, VMware, or equivalent technologies.
• Manage infrastructure capacity, performance, lifecycle, and operational health.
• Identify and proactively address single points of failure, configuration weaknesses, technical debt, and operational risks.
• Coordinate infrastructure maintenance activities with minimal business disruption.
• Work with external vendors and service providers when necessary.
• Own the technical operation and reliability of backup and recovery solutions.
• Monitor backup execution, retention, integrity, and storage capacity.
• Perform scheduled recovery tests and maintain validated restoration procedures.
• Maintain and execute disaster recovery procedures aligned with defined RTO and RPO requirements.
• Assess infrastructure resilience and recommend improvements to availability and business continuity.
• Administer networking infrastructure, including MikroTik, HPE Aruba, switches, firewalls, VPNs, Wi-Fi, and network segmentation.
• Troubleshoot routing, DNS, DHCP, connectivity, and network performance issues.
• Maintain secure administrative access, network configurations, and infrastructure access controls.
• Implement security hardening, operating system updates, and vulnerability remediation in collaboration with the Information Security team.
• Apply least-privilege principles and follow privileged-access management requirements.
• Support security investigations and remediation of infrastructure-related findings.
• Take technical leadership during infrastructure incidents, including critical service disruptions.
• Independently diagnose incidents, restore services, coordinate resolution activities, and communicate operational status.
• Perform root cause analysis and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Plan and execute infrastructure changes using impact assessments, testing, maintenance windows, and rollback procedures.
• Independently execute pre-approved standard changes within agreed operational boundaries.
• Escalate high-risk, architectural, or business-impacting changes for approval.
• Maintain accurate change records, incident reports, and post-incident documentation.
• Own infrastructure monitoring, alerting, and operational visibility.
• Ensure critical systems and services are appropriately monitored and actionable alerts are configured.
• Develop scripts and automation to reduce manual tasks and operational errors.
• Improve infrastructure standardization, configuration consistency, and maintenance processes.
• Recommend technical improvements based on evidence, operational metrics, and business requirements.
• Maintain infrastructure documentation, diagrams, inventories, and operational runbooks.
• Act as the primary technical point of contact for infrastructure-related matters.
• Independently make day-to-day operational decisions within established policies and architectural guidelines.
• Collaborate with IT Support, Information Security, and Digital Transformation teams.
• Provide technical recommendations, risk assessments, and implementation options to the Head of IT.
• Communicate infrastructure risks, critical incidents, and significant technical decisions transparently.
• Ensure sufficient documentation and knowledge transfer to support operational continuity.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience managing production or business-critical infrastructure.
• Advanced administration of Windows Server and Linux systems.
• Solid experience with enterprise virtualization platforms such as Proxmox, VMware vSphere, or OpenStack.
• Understanding of virtualization clusters, storage, resource allocation, networking, and high-availability concepts.
• Proven experience implementing and maintaining backup and disaster recovery solutions.
• Practical experience restoring systems and troubleshooting infrastructure failures.
• Strong networking knowledge, including routing, switching, firewalls, VPNs, DNS, DHCP, and network performance optimization.
• Experience with network security concepts, including access controls, segmentation, and security hardening.
• Proven ability to lead incident response and problem management activities.
• Experience with infrastructure monitoring, alerting, and performance analysis tools.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using languages such as PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Knowledge of containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
• Understanding of DevOps principles and practices.
• Previous experience in a similar role within a startup or investment firm.

🎁 Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits package.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Eligibility to work in the European Union is required.