Network Engineer, Trilogy (Remote) - $100,000/year USD

You're a DevOps engineer who prioritizes prevention over reaction. If you find satisfaction in dissecting complex legacy infrastructure, architecting efficient systems, and automating every manual process you find, this role will suit you. We need a DevOps and AWS infrastructure specialist who excels in high-pressure scenarios where 99.9% uptime is the baseline expectation. Your work will span a portfolio of acquired products, each with distinct characteristics, as you migrate them into a unified, scalable AWS environment while establishing monitoring and automation that reduce incidents significantly.
Most organizations ask you to maintain one stack. We're asking you to consolidate and refine several stacks without causing disruptions. Where others separate databases, we take a different approach, consolidating them strategically to enhance cost efficiency and management across our portfolio. This role isn't suited for someone interested in maintaining the status quo; it's designed for someone who identifies a fragmented, inconsistent environment and immediately envisions how to improve it.
Your scope includes infrastructure migrations, AI-powered automation, performance optimization, database transitions, and cost management. This means troubleshooting and resolving existing issues, planning and executing cloud migrations with minimal downtime, and using AI/ML-driven workflows to automate significant portions of your workload. You'll have genuine decision-making authority over infrastructure choices—no prolonged waiting for sign-offs from stakeholders unfamiliar with the technical details.
If you're a self-directed problem-solver who enjoys decoding complex systems and ensuring they operate seamlessly, this position will challenge and engage you. If you require continuous guidance, feel daunted by managing multiple technology stacks, or prefer starting fresh rather than creating structure from disorder, this role won't be a good fit. If you're prepared to assume responsibility for a high-impact infrastructure position with opportunities to build, refine, and automate at scale, submit your application now!
What You Will Be Doing

• Planning and executing infrastructure changes of significant complexity, including transitions from legacy environments to AWS cloud infrastructure and lift-and-shift migrations
• Designing and deploying monitoring strategies and creating automation for monitoring, deployment processes, and operational procedures
• Conducting system monitoring, backup operations, incident management, database migrations, database configuration, and cost optimization activities
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Spending your time in Jira and continuous status meetings - we prioritize individuals who deliver solutions, not just document issues
• Keeping outdated systems running indefinitely - you'll have the support to implement substantial improvements
• Waiting on bureaucratic approval processes - you'll possess the authority to implement immediate fixes when resolving incidents
• Being confined to narrow technical specializations - this position demands both wide-ranging knowledge and deep expertise
• Struggling for budget to deploy critical upgrades - we recognize the value of infrastructure investment
  

Network Engineer Key Responsibilities

• Drive reliability and standardization of cloud infrastructure across our expanding product portfolio by deploying comprehensive monitoring, automation, and AWS best practices.
  

Basic Requirements

• Deep AWS infrastructure expertise (this is our primary platform - experience with other cloud providers alone is insufficient)
• Experience scripting with Python and Bash for routine administrative operations
• Experience managing and migrating production databases across multiple engines (including MySql, Postgres, Oracle, MS-SQL)
• Experience with infrastructure automation (Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation)
• Linux systems administration expertise
  

About Trilogy
Hundreds of software businesses run on the Trilogy Business Platform. For three decades, Trilogy has been known for 3 things: Relentlessly seeking top talent, Innovating new technology, and incubating new businesses. Our technological innovation is spearheaded by a passion for simple customer-facing designs. Our incubation of new businesses ranges from entirely new moon-shot ideas to rearchitecting existing projects for today's modern cloud-based stack. Trilogy is a place where you can be surrounded with great people, be proud of doing great work, and grow your career by leaps and bounds.
There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!
Working with us
This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The compensation level for this role is $50 USD/hour, which equates to $100,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.
Crossover Job Code: LJ-5236-KE-Nairobi-NetworkEnginee.019
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