Pragmatike
Pragmatike
Pragmatike is a remote IT recruitment and staffing company that helps startups and enterprises find international technology professionals. Its service combines human-curated candidate matching with technical assessments, covering roles such as software development, data engineering, mobile and game development, product management, and other specialist positions. Pragmatike also supports the operational side of international hiring, including onboarding, invoicing, and payroll, and operates across more than 60 countries. The company says its vetted talent network can support fast placements, with qualified specialists potentially introduced within 48 hours.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer MAAS Armenia Remote

Senior SRE responsible for Pragmatike’s distributed cloud and GPU infrastructure. The role covers MAAS, Kubernetes, networking, automation, observability, and hardware reliability.

Description

  • Run and maintain large-scale Linux systems across Debian and Ubuntu bare-metal and virtualized environments
  • Manage MAAS bare-metal provisioning, including region and rack controllers, PXE, commissioning, cloud-init, node lifecycles, and API or CLI automation
  • Operate production Kubernetes clusters, handling upgrades, node pools, networking, storage, security hardening, and troubleshooting
  • Design and support multi-site networks using VLANs, Layer 2 and Layer 3 routing, bonded interfaces, VPNs, firewalls, and DNS
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning and operations with Ansible, Bash or Python, OpenTofu or Terraform, and Git-based workflows
  • Create and maintain automated deployment processes using PXE, Preseed, and cloud-init
  • Run observability systems with Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, VictoriaMetrics or VictoriaLogs, or similar tools
  • Establish and enhance SLIs, SLOs, alerting, and reliability practices for infrastructure and platform services
  • Lead infrastructure incident response, investigation, escalation, and post-incident improvements
  • Maintain on-call procedures and operational coverage across distributed environments
  • Work at the hardware layer with IPMI or Redfish, BMCs, RAID, storage, diagnostics, and GPU infrastructure
  • Administer virtualization platforms such as Proxmox, KVM/libvirt, OpenStack, or VMware, including GPU passthrough when needed
  • Develop internal infrastructure tools for host discovery, configuration, IPAM, hardware health, and operational automation
  • Manage infrastructure lifecycle work including site onboarding, maintenance, decommissioning, drift detection, and runbooks
  • Partner with engineering and cross-functional teams to improve reliability, resource utilization, and operational efficiency

Requirements

  • At least five years of practical experience in SRE, infrastructure, systems, or platform engineering
  • Advanced Linux administration expertise, especially with Debian and Ubuntu
  • Proven production experience with MAAS and bare-metal provisioning
  • Advanced hands-on experience running Kubernetes in production, including cluster lifecycles, networking, storage, upgrades, and troubleshooting
  • Strong networking expertise covering VLANs, Layer 2 and Layer 3 routing, bonding, VPNs, firewalls, and DNS
  • Strong automation ability using Ansible, Bash, and or Python
  • Experience with Terraform or OpenTofu and Git-based infrastructure workflows
  • Production experience with Prometheus, Grafana, or comparable observability platforms
  • Background in incident response, on-call operations, monitoring, alerting, and reliability practices
  • Experience with Proxmox, KVM/libvirt, OpenStack, VMware, or similar virtualization platforms
  • Experience managing bare-metal hardware, BMCs, IPMI or Redfish, storage, and hardware troubleshooting
  • Solid knowledge of distributed systems, container orchestration, and infrastructure reliability
  • Experience securing infrastructure through RBAC, firewalls, network policies, secrets management, and hardening
  • Ability to develop SOPs, runbooks, and operational processes from the ground up
  • Ability to work independently in a fast-moving, engineering-focused environment
  • Fluent English is required

Benefits

  • Fully remote work with flexible hours
  • A high-impact position offering substantial technical ownership and autonomy
  • Direct work with bare-metal systems, Kubernetes, networking, and GPU infrastructure
  • Collaboration with an international, engineering-focused team
  • A strong emphasis on automation, reliability, and infrastructure at scale
  • The opportunity to shape the architecture and operational foundations of a growing cloud platform

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