System Engineer – Bare Metal

Pragmatike

System Engineer specializing in MAAS and bare-metal automation for a European deep-tech company. Delivering energy-efficient alternatives to traditional cloud providers with advanced automation.

Posted 6/22/2026full-timeRemote • 🇨🇱 ChileMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleCloudGrafanaLinuxOpenStackPrometheusPythonVMware

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Maintain and support core infrastructure systems with deep knowledge of Linux (Debian/Ubuntu preferred)
Work close to the metal: BIOS, IPMI, RAID setups, and hardware-level diagnostics are part of your comfort zone
Design and maintain scalable networks using VLANs, L2/L3 routing, VPNs, and especially UniFi equipment
Automate infrastructure provisioning and operations with Ansible, Bash/Python, and Git-based workflows
Set up and manage observability stacks, including Prometheus/Grafana for metrics and Graylog, ELK, or Loki for log centralization
Build tooling for server discovery, config auto-generation, automated OS deployments, PXE/Preseed/Cloud-init, and strong MAAS-based provisioning
Integrate and/or develop internal APIs for tracking compute and GPU resource allocation, as well as external APIs (billing, monitoring, OpenStack, etc.)
Deploy and maintain virtualization and orchestration systems such as OpenStack (preferably with Kolla-Ansible), Proxmox VE, or VMware ESXi
Support container-based workloads and isolate services efficiently

Requirements

What you’ll need

Expert-level Linux administration (preferably Debian/Ubuntu)
Strong MAAS / Ironic / bare-metal automation experience (mandatory)
Excellent networking fundamentals: VLANs, routing, VPNs
Infrastructure as Code (Ansible), scripting (Bash/Python), GitOps
Experience with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Graylog
Comfort with custom deployment automation (PXE, Preseed, MAAS/Ironic)
Familiarity with resource tracking, API integrations, and dashboard development
Proven experience with OpenStack, Proxmox, VMware, and container orchestration

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Flexible work arrangements
Professional development
Paid time off

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Hard Skills & Tools

LinuxDebianUbuntuAnsibleBashPythonOpenStackProxmoxVMwareVLANs

Soft Skills

expert-level administrationstrong networking fundamentalsexcellent communicationcomfort with automationproven experience