• 3+ years of hands-on experience in infrastructure administration, DevOps, or a similar technical role.
• Strong practical experience with Windows and/or Linux server administration.
• Experience with production infrastructure operations, including monitoring, troubleshooting, patching, backup, and recovery.
• Good understanding of networking fundamentals, DNS, SSL/TLS, firewalls, and related infrastructure technologies.
• Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management; Ansible experience is preferred.
• Practical experience with CI/CD tools and processes; Jenkins experience is preferred.
• Good knowledge of Git and TFS; experience with GitLab and TFS is preferred.
• Experience with at least one public cloud platform; AWS experience is preferred.
• Experience supporting and administering production database systems (installation, configuration, backup, recovery, monitoring, and troubleshooting). Experience with Firebird is a strong advantage; experience with other relational databases (e.g. Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle) is also acceptable.
• Scripting skills in Python, Bash, and/or PowerShell.
• Ability to troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment, and application-related issues.
• Ability to work with existing and legacy systems and improve them incrementally without introducing unnecessary operational risk.
• Good written and spoken English.
  

Professional Skills:

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Practical, hands-on approach to infrastructure operations.
• Comfortable combining day-to-day infrastructure work with DevOps engineering tasks.
• Willingness to support existing systems rather than focusing exclusively on new technologies.
• Ability to understand an existing system before proposing significant changes.
• Ability to identify repetitive manual work and automate it where appropriate.
• Pragmatic approach to technology selection and infrastructure improvements.
• Ability to introduce improvements gradually, with appropriate assessment of operational risks.
• Ability to collaborate with system administrators, developers, QA engineers, and software architects.

Why join us:

• Fully remote & international team
• Opportunity to work in a fast-growing company with impact on global clinical research
• Supportive culture that values responsibility, flexibility, and quality
• Annual leave (depends on contract type)
• Bank holidays (depends on contract type)
• Sick days fully paid by the company (depends on contract type)

How we work:

• We care more about the things you do rather than your set working hours. We have flexible start hours from 8:00 to 11:00. It is important to participate in meetings with clients and (fixed) team meetings.
• We value respect, transparency, proactivity, openness and positive approach. We do care about our team’s mental health and happiness. This is why we follow an open-door policy and accept constructive feedback from both sides.
• We believe in teamwork with our clients and employees and build long-lasting trusted relationships.

To apply for this position, please contact: hr_team@flexdatabases.com