DevOps Engineer - Bare Metal Infrastructure

Job Description

Join our growing team at There’s An AI For That, an innovative platform dedicated to organizing and curating the ever-expanding universe of artificial intelligence tools.

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with strong experience working with bare metal infrastructure, who enjoys operating close to the hardware layer and owning systems end-to-end.

This is a full-time, on-site role based in our modern offices on Calea Victoriei. The position is ideal for a senior professional who values technical ownership, real infrastructure challenges, and building reliable systems outside of fully managed cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Manage, maintain, and optimize Linux servers running on bare metal infrastructure

• Design, operate, and scale bare metal systems for compute, storage, and networking

• Automate infrastructure and operational tasks using Ansible and scripting (Bash / Python)

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support development and production workflows

• Monitor system performance, availability, and reliability

• Implement backup, recovery, and high-availability strategies

• Ensure infrastructure security, stability, and documentation best practices

Qualifications

Required

• Senior-level experience with Linux systems administration

• Hands-on experience managing bare metal servers

• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, firewalls, load balancing)

• Experience with infrastructure automation (Ansible)

• MySQL experience (backups, scaling, performance tuning)

• Redis experience (data structures, backup strategies, clustering)

Nice to have

• CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)

• Monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix)

• Python scripting

• Experience working with high-availability or mission-critical systems

• Experience with ClickHouse

• Vector database knowledge

Note: This role focuses on bare metal infrastructure hosted in datacenters.

Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP is not required.

We Offer

• Net salary between 3,000 - 5,000 EUR/month, depending on experience and expertise level

• Private health insurance package with Regina Maria medical network

• Daily delicious lunch covered by the company, delivered to the office

• Technical ownership and architectural impact

• A collaborative and supportive work environment

• The opportunity to work hands-on with real bare metal infrastructure in a fast-growing project

• Access to emerging technologies and continuous learning opportunities