About Gapstars
At Gapstars, we partner with some of Europe’s most ambitious tech companies from disruptive startups to fast-scaling scaleups, helping them build high-performing remote engineering teams.
Headquartered in the Netherlands, with talent hubs in Sri Lanka and Portugal, we are home to 275+ engineers who thrive on solving real-world challenges with modern technologies. Our teams work across domains, from networking and marketplaces to SaaS and AI delivering scalable solutions that drive meaningful outcomes.
If you’re looking for a company that combines technical excellence, strong culture, and room to grow, welcome to Gapstars.
The Role
We are looking for an experienced Network Engineering lead to help us build best-in-class, web hosting infrastructures within Europe. You will be building and operating the critical infrastructure behind hundreds of thousands of online services. Together with an international team of like-minded professionals, you will be continuously striving for improvements to our environment. Together with your team, you will be responsible for:
● Designing and building a scalable network stack, closely integrated with the host (KVM, Cloud Stack, OpenStack)
● The security, reliability, and performance of our network services
● Advocating and adopting infrastructure as code best practices (or defining them).
● Continuous improvement of our practices, processes, and technology stack.
● Sharing success and learning from failure. We support a blameless culture.
● Participating in on-call rotations for incident response.
Our main technology stack:
● Automation: GitLab CI/CD, Bash, Python, Ansible, Salt, Kubernetes
● Network: IPv6-first, EVPN, VXLAN, FRR, Cumulus Linux, Juniper
● Cloud infrastructure: CloudStack, KVM, Ceph, or OpenStack
8+ years of relevant work experience
Expert-level knowledge of network administration at scale in a Linux environment
Experience working with Cisco routers and routing products.
Experience working with Juniper switches, especially data center environments.
Strong scripting and automation skills such as Python, Ansible, Puppet, etc.
Designing and building a scalable network to be closely integrated with the KVM, CloudStack/OpenStack
Working with Ansible for network automation.
Previous Experience with BGP Migration, moving/ transfer peering.
Experience with DNS such as BIND / PowerDNS.
"Gapstars is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on race, national origin, gender, disability, or age. Your personal information collected during the application process is handled following our privacy policy and used exclusively for recruitment and hiring purposes only"
