<div class="show-more-less-html__markup show-more-less-html__markup--clamp-after-5 relative overflow-hidden"> <p><strong>Senior Infrastructure &amp; Security Engineer | Early-stage AI Pioneer | Frankfurt</strong></p><p><br/></p><p><strong>About the Company</strong></p><p>An ambitious European AI pioneer co-founded by industry veterans from Apple, Aleph Alpha, and Amazon is building next-generation collaborative AI infrastructure. Operating at the intersection of high-density bare-metal compute and sovereign enterprise security, they are creating a high-performance datacenter environment designed to power complex, large-scale AI workloads.</p><p><br/></p><p><strong>About the Role</strong></p><p>An innovative infrastructure specialist is seeking a sharp, security-minded <strong>Senior Infrastructure &amp; Security Engineer</strong> to help build out a high-performance colocation environment and ensure robust end-to-end security.</p><p><br/></p><p>The position involves deploying a blend of bare-metal Linux servers and high-density NVIDIA GPU nodes designed for enterprise workloads. Security is the top priority, requiring an engineer who thoroughly understands physical hardware, network engineering, and system hardening.</p><p><br/></p><p><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></p><ul><li><strong>Hardware Setup:</strong> Rack, cable, network, and provision physical bare-metal servers and GPU nodes within a colocation environment.</li><li><strong>System Hardening:</strong> Establish strict defence-in-depth security including firewalls, segmented VLANs, zero-trust access, SSH hardening, and OS-level security policies.</li><li><strong>Secure Self-Hosted Tools:</strong> Harden and manage internal tooling (such as GitHub Enterprise, Nextcloud, chat platforms, and n8n) alongside dedicated customer environments.</li><li><strong>Monitoring &amp; Backups:</strong> Implement comprehensive log auditing, SIEM/intrusion detection, real-time alerting, and automated offsite backups.</li></ul><p><br/></p><p><strong>What You’ll Need</strong></p><ul><li><strong>Bare-Metal &amp; Datacenter Expertise:</strong> Proven systems administration and data centre experience covering L2/L3 networking, IPMI/iDRAC, switch configuration, RAID, and Linux OS deployment.</li><li><strong>Security-First Mindset:</strong> Treating security as a fundamental baseline rather than an afterthought, backed by deep knowledge of network isolation, VPNs (WireGuard/Tailscale), firewall policies, and system auditing.</li><li><strong>Core Linux Admin &amp; Automation:</strong> Expert-level Linux proficiency (Ubuntu, Debian, or RHEL; systemd, storage, Bash scripting) combined with Infrastructure as Code (Ansible, Terraform) for bare-metal OS provisioning and automated configuration management.</li><li><strong>Hands-On Capability:</strong> A strong preference for working directly with hardware and a commitment to running clean, stable, and highly secure systems.</li></ul><p><br/></p><p><strong>Nice-to-Haves</strong></p><ul><li><strong>Compliance Standards:</strong> Practical experience aligning environments with TISAX, SOC 2, or ISO 27001 standards.</li><li><strong>Tooling Integration:</strong> Familiarity with hosting n8n or LiteLLM gateways securely.</li><li><strong>AI Hardware:</strong> Prior experience managing NVIDIA GPU drivers, CUDA environments, and enterprise GPU nodes.</li></ul><p><br/></p><p><strong>Interested? Apply directly through LinkedIn, or send your CV to george@eu-recruit.com</strong></p><p><br/></p><p><em>By applying to this role you understand that we may collect your personal data, store and process it on our systems. For more information please see our Privacy Notice (https://eu-recruit.com/about-us/privacy-notice/)</em></p> </div>