Senior DNS Infrastructure Engineer
Verda is a Helsinki-headquartered full-stack AI cloud provider offering on-demand GPU compute, clusters, serverless containers, storage, APIs, and related AI infrastructure.
Funding history
About Verda
Formerly DataCrunch, Verda operates European AI cloud infrastructure for the full AI lifecycle, from prototyping and distributed model training to scalable inference. It manages data-center infrastructure, hardware, cloud-platform services, and an in-house AI Lab.
Skills
About the Role
You will take full ownership of the DNS ecosystem built on PowerDNS and scale it for resilience and automation. You will build an API-driven DNS architecture where zones, delegations and records are managed as code, work with networking on Anycast, and document and evangelize DNS practices across SRE and platform teams.
Requirements
- Proven experience architecting, tuning and operating PowerDNS (Authoritative, Recursor, dnsdist) at scale
- In-depth knowledge of DNS internals (TSIG, DNSSEC automation, EDNS, SOA timers)
- Understanding of MySQL/PostgreSQL backends and BGP/Anycast
- 5+ years managing infrastructure as code with SaltStack or Ansible
- Clear communication of complex DNS topics to teams and leadership
Responsibilities
- Shape, scale and maintain the global PowerDNS authoritative and recursive infrastructure
- Use dnsdist for load balancing, query filtering and denial-of-service mitigation
- Drive a GitOps model for DNS with SaltStack and Ansible
- Design automated subdomain delegation and tenant isolation architectures
- Scale DNS globally with BGP Anycast in partnership with the networking team
- Write internal documentation and runbooks and act as DNS evangelist
Benefits
- Cash and equity compensation
- Local benefits