Infrastructure Technical Lead | Contract | Europe

Infrastructure Technical Lead | Contract | Europe Location: Fully remote within the EUDay Rate: Up to €525/dayDuration: 15 months My client is looking for an Infrastructure Technical Lead for a global cyber threat intelligence organisation’s team. This focus on operating and securing bare-metal and dedicated hosting infrastructure. Key Responsibilities:Administer production Ubuntu systems and troubleshoot networking and hardware issues.Manage dedicated hosting or colocation infrastructure.Automate provisioning and maintenance using scripts and Ansible.Improve monitoring, logging, patching, access controls and secrets handling.Translate compliance requirements into practical infrastructure changes.Technical Lead: guide technical decisions and support engineers while remaining hands-on. Requirements:Strong production Ubuntu administration experience.Dedicated hosting experience, such as Hetzner/OVH, or colocation environments.Strong routing, DNS, firewall and VPN troubleshooting skills.Physical server operations and hardware fault diagnosis.Scripting, Ansible and infrastructure observability experience. Desirable Skills:ZFS, WireGuard, KVM/QEMU, Podman, Grafana/ELK or VictoriaMetrics.Terraform, Kubernetes, CoreDNS/Cloudflare and familiarity with Go.Encryption, PKI, key rotation and certificate lifecycle management.SOPS, OpenBao/Vault and ISO 27001 or SOC 2 experience.Experience operating hundreds of hosts. If this is of interest, send in your application!