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Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

AirportLabs provides a complete suite of products that drives efficiency in aviation. Our products and solutions help major airports, airlines, and ground handlers worldwide solve the hardest operational problems, improve efficiency, and develop the value of their services.

Our operations team is one of the best in the industry, delivering world-class SaaS solutions that enhance aviation efficiency. One in five passengers worldwide has had their journey improved by at least one of our products. We are reshaping the way aviation systems are built, delivered, and operated.

Key data for you to consider

  • Income: 2600 - 3500 GBP gross/month, depending on role fit and experience level
  • Yearly profit share 
  • Various performance and behaviour-based bonuses 
  • In-office or hybrid (partial office & partial remote)
  • Office location: Cluj-Napoca
  • Contract based on PFA or SRL with our UK entity
  • Paid holidays

Responsibilities

  • Design, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS and Hetzner, ensuring high availability, scalability, and cost optimization.
  • Orchestrate containerized environments using Kubernetes and Docker Swarm for efficient application deployment and management.
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration with Ansible and Terraform, implementing Infrastructure-as-Code best practices,  including the setup of distributed storage systems for high availability and data durability.
  • Implement and maintain infrastructure security, including IDS/IPS, firewalls, and security best practices to protect systems and data.

Skills

  • Assuming responsibility, taking ownership, and delivering on promise.
  • Ability to communicate async and sync, and everything in between.
  • Ability to debug and troubleshoot problems
  • Proactive, accountable, and results-driven.
  • Humble and eager to learn, teach, and be taught

Experience

  • Previous experience with tools in our stack or similar technologies, with a strong interest in learning new ones.
  • Familiarity with version control, such as git
  • Strong Linux skills, system administration, shell scripting, package management, process monitoring, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
  • Automation and scripting languages such as Bash, Python or similar

Nice to have

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field
  • Certifications such as: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD),, HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate, Ansible Automation Certification, CompTIA Network+/Security+
  • Previous experience in areas like software development, information security or computer networks.

Our recruitment process for this role consists of two phases:

Phase 1: An initial interview with members of our Operations team. Candidates who complete Phase 1 will be given a timed technical assignment.

Phase 2: Following a review of all Phase 1 submissions, selected candidates will be invited to a final interview. During this interview, candidates will present their completed assignments to our team.

Career development

Should you be interested in further professional development, we will support you to boost your skills and capabilities. Being a product company, we have a wider breadth of departments and skills that may be attractive to you:

  • Team Leader
  • Manager
  • Architect
  • Head of department

We place efficiency at the core of our business. Our day-to-day efforts contribute to improving the quality of passengers’ travel experience all across the world.

We foster a values-driven culture; therefore, colleagues who join our team must abide by and uphold our company values: Assertiveness, Efficiency, Grit, Initiative, Kindness & Collaboration, Knowledge transfer, Openness, Ownership, Responsibility & Accountability, Predictability, Psychological safety, and Transparency.

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