Acronis is looking for a Senior Cloud Platform System Engineer to join our fully remote, globally distributed team. You will focus on infrastructure reliability and automation, helping to keep our production environment stable across multiple regions and reducing manual work by building repeatable infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code.
What You'll Do
- Keep production systems healthy, stable, and highly available across multiple regions.
- Build and maintain infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code and configuration management using Ansible.
- Improve delivery, deployment, and maintenance processes for our managed services and tooling.
- Participate in incident response and the on-call rotation; troubleshoot issues end-to-end and drive fixes to resolution.
- Partner with global teams to plan and execute platform changes.
- Contribute to automation initiatives (self-service workflows, safer changes, reduced manual tasks).
- Work on optional/bonus AI automation projects.
What We're Looking For
- 2+ years as a System Administrator (or 1+ year as DevOps/SRE).
- Strong Linux administration and production troubleshooting skills.
- Scripting skills in Bash, Go, or Python.
- Hands-on Ansible experience building reusable playbooks/roles.
- Terraform or similar IaC tools (acceptable if strong in Ansible/IaC fundamentals).
- Virtualization: VMware and/or KVM experience.
- Networking fundamentals: L3/L4, DNS, DHCP, NAT, routing, load balancers, VPN/IPsec, firewalls; hands-on troubleshooting with tools like tcpdump, traceroute, iperf.
- Web/edge basics: reverse proxies/web servers (e.g., NGINX).
Nice to Have
- Observability & logs: Elastic/ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager.
- Cloud basics: Azure / AWS / GCP.
- Databases/queues: PostgreSQL/MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ/Kafka.
- Security basics: hardening, secrets management, access management, RBAC/least privilege.
- CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions.
- Interest or experience in AI for operations / automation.
Technical Stack
- Linux, Bash, Go, Python, Ansible, Terraform, VMware, KVM, NGINX, Elastic/ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Azure, AWS, GCP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions
Team & Environment
This is a fully remote, globally distributed team. Acronis fosters a culture of innovation, accountability, and impact. We encourage people to think boldly, challenge conventional approaches, and take ownership of outcomes. It's a high-growth, fast-paced environment where resilience, adaptability, and a commitment to continuous improvement drive success.
Work Mode
This is a fully remote position within a global team structure.
Acronis is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, national origin, physical or mental disability, medical condition, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.
