About the Role
Flex Databases team is looking for a DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer who can approach infrastructure with intelligence and pragmatism. We create and implement a secure, unified, and compliant electronic system developed specifically for life sciences. The system is composed of modules covering clinical, safety, quality and compliance, as well as project and finance management, from project start-up to product post-marketing. Our mission is reflected in the system – flexible, unified, and hassle-free for users.
Requirements
•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.
•Practical experience with CI/CD tools and processes.
•Good knowledge of Git and TFS.
•Experience with at least one public cloud platform.
•Experience supporting and administering production database systems (installation, configuration, backup, recovery, monitoring, and troubleshooting).
•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.
•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.
Nice to Have
•Ansible experience is preferred.
•Jenkins experience is preferred.
•Experience with GitLab and TFS is preferred.
•AWS experience is preferred.
•Experience with Firebird is a strong advantage.
•Experience with other relational databases (e.g. Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle) is also acceptable.
Conditions
•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).
•We care more about the things you do rather than your set working hours. 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, following an open-door policy and accepting constructive feedback from both sides.
•We believe in teamwork with our clients and employees and build long-lasting trusted relationships.
