Systems & IT Engineer (wmd) 80-100

About Papers

Papers is a software engineering company founded on high-tech talent. We support the full lifecycle of innovative web3 products from concept to software market fit building secure scalable futures for our clients and the internet at large.

With over a decade of experience and a reputation built on delivering for Fortune 500s and blockchain ecosystems our teams combine deep technical know-how with a mission to enable meaningful decentralized innovation.

As an engineering-driven team we work with autonomy and purpose. Our culture is built on meritocracy long-term thinking and a commitment to quality over buzz. We aim to collaborate with people who love tech for its own sake and want to help shape the future by solving real-world challenges.

Your Responsibilities

• Manage and improve our self-hosted Linux-based infrastructure (Ubuntu) running on a fleet of dedicated/bare-metal servers
• Keep servers patched and up to date (OS/security updates reboots) and maintain the various applications we self-host
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI): build images push to the GitLab Container Registry
• Set up and optimize Docker and Docker Compose deployments
• Automate infrastructure and host provisioning with Ansible
• Define and enforce backup strategies and disaster-recovery processes.
• Run our observability stack Telegraf InfluxDB Grafana for metrics and alerting (alerts route to Teams/PagerDuty) Graylog for log aggregation and write runbooks for the alerts
• Administer Microsoft 365 / Entra ID (Azure AD) identity & access management MFA Conditional Access SSO and email/collaboration security
• Own and continuously improve our security posture: SSH/host hardening firewalls secrets management least-privilege access periodic access reviews and incident response
• Participate in on-call rotations to support critical services (incl. the Acurast blockchain/bridge infrastructure)
• Collaborate with backend engineers to streamline integration and delivery
• Continuously identify and automate repetitive tasks to reduce manual intervention

Tech Stack Overview

Youll be working with:

• Linux (Ubuntu) bare-metal/dedicated hosts
• GitLab CI Docker Docker Compose
• Ansible (infrastructure-as-code)
• Nginx Lets Encrypt/certbot
• Telegraf InfluxDB Grafana (metrics alerting); Graylog (logs) PagerDuty
• PostgreSQL NATS NetBird (mesh VPN)
• Microsoft 365 / Entra ID (Azure AD) identity MFA Conditional Access
• Scripting: Bash Python

Your Profile

• 3 years of hands-on experience in DevOps SRE or infrastructure roles
• Proficient with Linux/Ubuntu system administration on self-managed servers
• Comfortable with Docker / Docker Compose and CI/CD workflows (GitLab CI)
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Ansible especially)
• Confident with Nginx TLS shell scripting and practical networking (reverse proxies firewalls VPN/overlay networks)
• Comfortable owning a metrics/alerting stack and responding to incidents
• Solid grasp of security fundamentals: identity & access management (MFA/SSO least privilege) host hardening secrets handling and patch management
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
• Self-driven self-organized pragmatic and comfortable working independently

Bonus if you have:

• Background in blockchain/web3 infrastructure (we run Acurast network and bridge services)
• Microsoft 365 / Entra ID administration (Conditional Access Intune Defender)
• Deeper security background: hardening vulnerability/patch management or a security certification
• Experience operating a TIG stack (Telegraf/InfluxDB/Grafana) or other time-series monitoring
• Managed-cloud experience (GCP/AWS/Azure) and Kubernetes/Helm
• Terraform or other declarative IaC (transferable to our Ansible setup)
• Contributions to open-source projects
• Experience scaling infrastructure in startup or high-growth environments

Why join Papers

• Work with cutting-edge web3 clients and technology.
• 25 days paid vacation per year.
• 2 days of home office per week possible
• High ownership low bureaucracy your voice matters.
• Influence the DevOps strategy from day one.
• Regular team events and retreats when possible.
• Learning and development supported.