DevOps Engineer

Description

We are seeking a talented
Dev Ops Engineer
to join our Infrastructure Services team at Crossref.

• Location
  :
  Remote and global, to partially overlap with working hours in European time zones.
• Type
  :
  Full-time
• Remuneration
  : 85-90k USD or local equivalent. Note this is a general guide (as there is no universal currency) and local currency analysis will take place before the final offer.
• Reports to
  :
  Head of Infrastructure Services, Stewart Houten
• Timeline
  :
  Advertise in July-August and offer in September-October.

Crossref operates an open infrastructure that connects thousands of scholarly publishers, millions of research articles, and research objects to serve an increasingly diverse set of communities within scholarly publishing, research, funding, and beyond. Our system acts as the backbone for preserving and sharing the scholarly record. We offer a wide array of services to ensure that scholarly research metadata is registered, linked, and distributed.

When members register their content with us, we collect both bibliographic and non-bibliographic metadata. We process it so that connections can be made between publications, people, organizations, and other associated outputs. We preserve the metadata we receive as a critical part of the scholarly record. We also make it openly available across a range of interfaces and formats so that the community can use it and build tools with it.

We are looking for a skilled Dev Ops Engineer to contribute to a key component of the global scholarly research infrastructure. You will help maintain our infrastructure, adapt it to modern engineering principles, and evolve to meet the requirements of ever-changing scholarly communication. This is a hands‑on engineering role requiring deep Linux expertise, along with a strong focus on automation and observability.

You will work alongside developers and data scientists across the broader Technology team, supporting innovation, driving continuous improvement, and promoting transparent operations.

• Keep the system running by contributing to incident response and post‑incident reviews
• Continuously evaluate and improve infrastructure performance, security, and scalability
• Build and maintain automation tools and infrastructure‑as‑code to streamline deployments, configuration management, and operations
• Implement and enhance observability solutions, including monitoring, logging, and alerting, to ensure high system reliability and visibility
• Implement and promote best practices around scalable, cost‑controlled, and secure operations
• Collaborate with software developers and data scientists to integrate Dev Ops best practices into the development lifecycle
• Participate in architecture and design discussions with a focus on maintainability and reliability
• Maintain clear and comprehensive documentation for infrastructure systems, processes, and automation pipelines

• Deep Linux systems administration experience with containerized workloads
• Good knowledge of AWS or an alternative cloud provider
• Enthusiasm for infrastructure‑as‑code in Terraform, Open Tofu, or similar
• Experience in building and running CI/CD pipelines
• Fluency in scripting and automation (Python, Bash, Ansible)
• Familiarity with cloud‑native best practices
• Pragmatic approach to supporting legacy software
• Enthusiasm for maintaining clear documentation for infrastructure practices and runbooks
• Good communication skills and the ability to communicate technical concepts to a non‑technical audience
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills
• Willingness to learn new skills and work with a variety of technologies
• Ability to work independently while actively collaborating and consulting with others
• Self‑motivated, collaborative, and proactive, with a positive attitude and a preference for working in a small, distributed team

• Configuration management (Ansible, Puppet)
• JVM‑based programming languages (Java, Clojure, Kotlin)
• Relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL
• No‑SQL databases (Elastic Search, Redis, DynamoDB)
• Container management…