System-Administrator / DevOps Engineer
The Nym team is a world-class mix of privacy experts, engineers, and thinkers spread across the Globe. We believe that user privacy underpins democratic freedoms in a networked world, and we're proud to help roll back the surveillance society.
Nym is at the forefront of privacy technology, we are now seeking a skilled Sys-Admin / DevOps Engineer to come on-board, who shares our passion for privacy-preserving products and decentralisation.
This role requires a junior engineer with a holistic understanding of the web security, self-hosted systems and day-to-day working on Linux. The individual should love making things run perfectly, whilst ensuring the highest levels of systems security across the business.
In Your First Month, You Might:
- Gain an understanding of Nym's current infrastructure and self-hosted systems.
- Handle hardware maintenance, networking, and infrastructure automation.
- Identify pain points and propose long-term improvements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Handle hardware maintenance, networking, and system monitoring.
- Prepare groundwork and business readiness for security audits (Security audits will not be implemented by you).
- Automate processes using Terraform, Kubernetes (k8s), and scripting.
- Improve containerization and deployment workflows.
- Work alongside engineering and operations teams to ensure smooth performance.
- Take ownership of external systems relationships, hardware procurement, and maintenance.
Key Experience:
- 1+ years of experience (can include internship) as a SysAdmin, SRE, DevOps, or similar.
- Strong networking and hardware maintenance skills.
- Proficiency in infrastructure automation and monitoring.
- Experience with Kubernetes (k8s), Terraform, and containerization.
- Ability to work fast and efficiently in a startup environment.
- Comfortable taking ownership and responsibility without micromanagement.
- Experience with cryptographic key management, including multi-sig and secret management.
- Based in EU or Schengen zones
What We Offer You:
- A diverse and collaborative team of 50+, interested in learning and solving problems together.
- 6 weeks annual leave plus national holidays.
- Yearly learning and development allowance.
- IT hardware package tailored to your role.
- Remote working (with a bias towards in-person meetups periodically).
- A competitive salary.
- Department
- Engineering
- Locations
- Switzerland, Europe, Neuchâtel, London
- Remote status
- Hybrid
KEY BENEFITS
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IT Infrastructure
We strive for excellence on a daily basis, your hardware shouldn't hold you back.
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Generous Annual Leave Allowance
We are actively anti-burnout at Nym.
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Market Leading Compensation
We want everyone to be able to afford to live the life they want outside of work.
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Fully Remote / Flexi Working
Work when you want, how you want as long as key deadlines are hit.
INTRODUCING NYMVPN
Everything we do online leaves a trace.
Traditional VPNs can't protect our patterns of communications. With the emergence of AI, everything about who we are and what we do online, from browsing habits to financial transactions, is traceable.
NymVPN is the only VPN built to make you truly anonymous in what you do online.
System-Administrator / DevOps Engineer
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