Senior Cloud Platform System Engineer
We’re looking for a Cloud Platform Engineer focused on infrastructure reliability and automation in a fully remote, globally distributed team. You’ll help keep production stable across regions and reduce manual work by building repeatable infrastructure using IaC. You’ll also have opportunities to work on automation and AI-enabled operations (e.g., self-service tooling, smarter alerting, knowledge assistants).
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).
- Optional/bonus: AI automation Projects.
WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR
- 2+ years as a System Administrator (or 1+ year as DevOps/SRE).
- Strong Linux administration and production troubleshooting.
- Scripting skills in Bash, Go or Python.
- Automation/IaC:
- Ansible (hands-on experience building reusable playbooks/roles). Terraform or similar IaC tools (acceptable if you are 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
*Please submit your resume and application in English.
WHO WE ARE
A Swiss company founded in Singapore in 2003, Acronis offers over twenty years of innovation with 15 offices worldwide and more than 1800 employees in 50+ countries. Acronis Cyber Protect is available in 26 languages in 150 countries and is used by over 20,000 service providers to protect over 750,000 businesses.
Our corporate culture centers on innovation, accountability, and impact. We encourage our people to think boldly, challenge conventional approaches, and take ownership of outcomes. As a member of our global “A-Team,” you’ll operate in a high-growth, fast-paced environment where resilience, adaptability, and a commitment to continuous improvement drive success.
OUR INTERVIEW PRACTICES
To ensure a fair and genuine hiring process, candidates are expected to participate in interviews without the use of AI tools, automated prompts, or third-party assistance. Interviews are designed to assess individual skills, experience, and communication style and we value authentic, real-time interaction.
Use of AI or external assistance during live interviews may result in disqualification. For roles where AI skills are being evaluated, permitted use of AI tools will be clearly communicated in advance. Candidates may be asked to disable virtual backgrounds or participate in in-person interviews. All employment offers are contingent upon successful completion of applicable criminal, education and identity background checks.
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