System Engineer – Bare Metal

Pragmatike

System Engineer focused on Metal-as-a-Service automation for a decentralized cloud computing company. Seeking expertise in Linux and large-scale infrastructure management.

Posted 6/22/2026full-timeRemote • 🇧🇷 BrazilMid-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 working hours
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

LinuxDebianUbuntuAnsibleBashPythonGitOpenStackProxmoxVMware

Soft Skills

expert-level administrationstrong networking fundamentalscomfort with automationproven experience