CloudOps Network Engineer at Wrike - Remote Global — Columbus
Traveler-Friendly Insight
This role at Wrike is listed as "Anywhere in the World" but carries important caveats for digital nomads. Wrike operates a hybrid model — employees near hubs in Prague, Nicosia, Rennes, or Tallinn are expected in-office 1–3 days per week. If you're fully nomadic with no fixed base near these cities, clarify expectations with the recruiter before applying.
On-call duties are a firm requirement for this CloudOps/Network Engineer role. On-call rotations typically require you to be available within a short response window (often 15–30 minutes), which significantly restricts timezone freedom. Being in a compatible European or Middle Eastern timezone is strongly advisable.
For those who can anchor themselves near one of the hub cities while traveling the rest of the time, Wrike's distributed culture and Scrum-based async planning (biweekly and quarterly) offers decent flexibility between on-call windows.
- Lisbon, Portugal: Excellent timezone fit (WET/WEST), vibrant tech scene, D7 or Digital Nomad visa available — though no Wrike hub here means fully remote status needed.
- Tallinn, Estonia: A Wrike hub city — hybrid work possible, Digital Nomad visa available, moderate cost of living (~€2,000–€2,500/month for a comfortable lifestyle).
- Prague, Czechia: Another Wrike hub, good cost of living (~€1,800–€2,200/month), no EU Digital Nomad visa but EU work authorization applies for EU citizens.
No explicit equipment stipend or coworking allowance is mentioned. The SIM card with unlimited internet is a modest travel perk.
Headquarters: Cyprus - Remote
Wrike is the most powerful work management platform. Built for teams and organizations looking to collaborate, create, and exceed every day, Wrike brings everyone and all work into a single place to remove complexity, increase productivity, and free people up to focus on their most purposeful work.
Wrike is our people, not a place. As a distributed team, we own our growth, stay globally connected, and rely on the product we build to deliver impactful work alongside brilliant minds. You'll have real ownership over meaningful work, a global team that has your back, and the flexibility to do your best work your way. If that sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you.
Our vision: A world where everyone is free to focus on their most purposeful work, together.
About the Role
As a CloudOps Engineer at Wrike, you have advanced skills in supporting cloud and on-prem data center infrastructure with security in mind. You know how to work with containers, networking, monitoring, automation, and debugging a reasonably complex infrastructure. You feel comfortable defining your own work based on the team OKRs. You can also help others do so when necessary. You are used to proposing meaningful improvements to the existing infrastructure in alignment with architects and tech leads, and you can drive the execution.
In this specific role, you will take ownership of the design, implementation, and lifecycle management of our Network Infrastructure across hybrid environments. You bring deep, hands-on expertise in architecting resilient network topologies, configuring core routing and switching, managing firewalls, and securing connectivity between cloud providers and on-premise data centers.
Your Impact
- Keep our infrastructure and company information safe with reliable network security
- Keep our services running smoothly and fast for users around the clock
- Managing the Wrike product infrastructure
- Implementing reliable solutions to ensure a product uptime SLA of 99.9%
- Working with GCP, AWS and other cloud providers in the IaC paradigm
- Introducing and supporting new infrastructure services
- Actively participating in incident response and management, including on-call duties
- Developing and maintaining professional connections within and outside of the team
Your Qualifications
- Juniper/Cisco devices for underlying network infrastructure
- Kubernetes and ArgoCD
- Nginx, HAproxy, and Istio for load balancing
- GCP, AWS, and Cloudflare as main cloud providers
- Puppet, Ansible, and Terraform for Infrastructure as Code
- Python for automation
- Prometheus (VictoriaMetrics) and Zabbix for monitoring
- Graylog, Logstash, Fluentd for logging
- Jenkins and Gitlab-CI for building pipelines
- Upper Intermediate English skills
Standout Qualities
- Experience with enterprise-grade infrastructure and SaaS solutions
- Profound knowledge of network technologies, data transmission protocols, network architecture, and equipment
- Experience working with BGP, OSPF, EVPN, STP, IPsec protocols
- Familiarity with Linux, iptables, Nginx, HAproxy, and keepalive
- Understanding of information security principles and the ability to apply them to network architecture
- Sufficient scripting skills in Python/Bash or other scripting languages
- Strong analytical abilities and problem-solving skills
Team Dynamics
- Your manager will be Dmitrii Vlasov, SysOps Team Lead
- We have two dozen folks in the SysOps Department, consisting of four teams distributed in Prague, Nicosia, Rennes, and Tallinn
Our Work Style
- Scrum-based processes (daily standups, biweekly plannings, quarterly plannings)
- Hybrid mode (1–2 days per week)
- On-call shifts in production and development environments
Interview Process
- Introduction Call with a Recruiter
- Technical Interview
- Cultural Interview
Benefits & Perks
- 25 calendar days of paid vacation
- Sick Leave Compensation (5 Paid Uncertified Sick Days)
- Parental Leave: 18 Weeks Maternity / 4 Week Paternity
- 2 Volunteer Days
- Medical Insurance (Employees + Dependents)
- Hybrid Working Model
- School Allowance (Up to €600/month for school-aged kids)
- SIM card with Unlimited Internet Access for active employees
- Office Lunch Allowance (via Wolt) on Wednesdays & Thursdays
Your recruitment buddy will be Alexandra Vorobyova, Lead Recruiter.
Check out our LinkedIn Life Page, Company culture page, Instagram, Wrike Engineering Team, Medium, Meetup.com, Youtube for a feel for what life is like at Wrike.
To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/wrike-cloudops-engineer-network-engineer
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