Systems Engineer
Workplace: Stockholm, Sweden
Expires: June 27, 2025
Flightradar24 is seeking a talented and driven Systems Engineer proficient in system administration, private cloud, and automation to operate and develop their own infrastructure focusing on OpenStack and Kubernetes within a hybrid multi-cloud platform.
Main requirements:
- Extensive professional experience in Linux system administration and operations, preferably on large-scale low latency systems
- Hands-on experience with service orchestration, containerization, automation, scripting, and configuration management
- Passion for high performance computing and infrastructure optimization
- Networking experience including switch and firewall configuration and routing
- AWS cloud experience (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, ECS/EKS) is a plus
- Self-starter with strong project ownership
- Fluent English, both spoken and written
- Familiarity with BSD operating systems (FreeBSD and OpenBSD)
Responsibilities:
- Maintain and evolve system infrastructure based on private cloud and AWS/Azure services
- Standardize and automate infrastructure provisioning via Infrastructure-as-Code, orchestration, and configuration management
- Optimize reliability and performance of on-premise and cloud infrastructure
- Support scaling of infrastructure and services to cloud platforms
- Collaborate closely with developers to maintain high performance and reliability of live production platforms
- Develop future private cloud solutions based on OpenStack, Ceph, and KVM with integration to public clouds
- Work with technologies including Debian Linux, Ansible, Terraform, Docker, MySQL, Redis Cluster, RabbitMQ, Kafka, HAProxy, Nginx, Cloudflare, AWS, Azure, Datadog, Jenkins, Kubernetes
- Develop tooling to replace existing SaaS solutions like Datadog
- Minimize cloud dependency on hyperscalers such as AWS and Azure
Required hard skills:
- Linux system administration (Debian preferred)
- Service orchestration and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Ansible, Terraform)
- Scripting and automation
- Networking fundamentals including BGP routing and firewall configuration
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS and Azure)
Recommended hard skills:
- Experience with OpenStack, Ceph, KVM
- Familiarity with FreeBSD and OpenBSD operating systems
- Knowledge of databases and message brokers (MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka)
- Experience with monitoring and CI/CD tools (Datadog, Jenkins)
Soft skills:
- Self-starter and proactive project driver
- Team collaboration in distributed and multicultural environments
- Adherence to simplicity in design and implementation (KISS principle)
- Problem solving and troubleshooting enthusiasm (e.g., 'shaving yaks' and 'herding kittens' mindset)
Coding languages:
- Shell scripting
- Python (assumed common for automation)
Frameworks:
- OpenStack
- Kubernetes
- Docker
Operating systems:
- Debian Linux
- FreeBSD
- OpenBSD
Natural languages:
- English (Proficient)
Cultural skills:
- Work effectively in a distributed international team
- Embrace responsibility and ownership of technical projects
- Commitment to open technology and infrastructure innovation