SysOps Engineer — Hardware & Secure Infrastructure
About RAAD
RAAD operates a global aerial intelligence network. Clients order high-resolution site imagery, thermal inspections, and 3D data through our platform; our pilot network captures it; and our processing and vision-model pipeline turns raw imagery into structured, georeferenced answers — often within hours. We run our own hardware end to end: capture fleets in the field, GPU processing clusters we built ourselves, and deployments that span public cloud, our own data centers, and secure on-prem environments inside client facilities.
We're growing fast across every region we operate in, and we're hiring people who want to help scale systems and operations that already work — and make them work at ten times the volume.
The role
RAAD is not a cloud-only company. We design and build our own servers from the ground up — GPU processing nodes, storage arrays, and edge appliances — and we deploy them everywhere our clients need them: our own racks, public cloud for burst capacity, and hardened on-prem installations inside secure client environments where data can never leave the building. Energy, defense-adjacent, and critical-infrastructure clients choose us because we can run the entire stack on hardware we control.
We're hiring a SysOps engineer with deep hardware experience to help scale this footprint as we add racks, regions, and secure deployments.
What you'll do
- Spec, build, burn-in, and deploy our server platforms — GPU compute, high-density storage, and networking — from component selection to racked-and-serving.
- Run our colocation and on-prem fleet: provisioning (PXE/Redfish), firmware and BIOS management, out-of-band access, capacity planning, and hardware lifecycle.
- Stand up secure on-prem installations at client sites: air-gapped and restricted-network deployments, disk encryption and key management, physical and network hardening to client security requirements.
- Operate the hybrid layer — our own metal for baseline load, cloud for burst — including networking, VPN/WireGuard meshes, and observability across both.
- Automate everything twice-done: Ansible/Terraform, image building, self-healing where hardware allows and runbooks where it doesn't.
- Carry real operational ownership, including participating in an on-call rotation for infrastructure that clients bet their projects on.
What you'll bring
- 6+ years operating physical infrastructure: you've built servers with your hands, debugged failed DIMMs and flaky NICs, and know your way around a datacenter cage.
- Strong Linux systems administration and network fundamentals (VLANs, BGP basics, firewalls).
- Experience with secure or regulated environments — restricted networks, encryption at rest, compliance-driven hardening.
- Fluency in infrastructure-as-code and configuration management; comfort writing Python or shell to close gaps.
- GPU cluster experience (drivers, CUDA stack, thermals, power budgeting) is a strong plus.
Benefits & perks
Competitive pay & equity
Strong base salary plus meaningful equity — everyone shares in what we're building.
Health, dental & vision
Comprehensive coverage for you and your dependents, tailored to your country.
Remote-first
Work from anywhere in your role's region. Async-friendly, documentation-driven culture.
Gear & home office budget
Top-spec hardware and a budget to build a workspace you actually enjoy.
Generous time off
Flexible PTO plus your local public holidays. We expect you to use it.
Learning & travel
Annual learning budget and team offsites — plus real field time with the operations your work powers.