IT Engineer (60-100%)

What You Are Going To Do

• Software Provisioning and Management: provisioning, configuring, and maintaining software licenses across the Open Home Foundation’s IT infrastructure. This includes SaaS like Google Suite, Figma, Office 365, or 1Password.
• Security/Risk Management: Identifying, assessing, and mitigating security risks to the Open Home Foundation’s IT systems and data. Implementing security policies and procedures and monitoring for and responding to security incidents.
• Vendor Management: Managing relationships with third-party vendors who provide IT products and services. This includes negotiating contracts, managing vendor performance, and ensuring vendors meet SLAs.
• Hardware Inventory Management: Tracking and managing the Open Home Foundation’s IT Equipment, including computers. This includes maintaining an accurate inventory of hardware assets, tracking hardware lifecycles, and managing hardware disposal.
• Troubleshooting/Support: Providing technical support to Open Home Foundation employees experiencing problems with their IT systems. This includes diagnosing and resolving technical problems and providing guidance and training to employees.
• System Administration: Track and apply upgrades and security fixes for self-hosted software. This includes Discourse forums, and other non-SaaS software used by OHF.

What You Need To Have

• Five years experience in IT Management: A proven track record of successfully managing IT operations and projects, ideally within a startup or small to medium-sized tech companies.
• Expertise in Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 Administration: Hands-on experience managing and maintaining both Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) and Microsoft 365 environments, including user account management, permissions, security, and troubleshooting.
• Professional Fluency in English: Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• European Residency: You must be currently based and eligible to work within Europe.

It would be great if you also have

• Experience working with remote, distributed teams
• A passion for smart homes and automation
• Experience as a Home Assistant user
• Affinity for open-source software

What We Offer You

The Open Home Foundation is a fully remote organization that uses Remote to employ people from all over the world. You will be a normal salaried employee in your country.

This can be a part-time or full-time position for 24-40 hours per week. Because we are a fully remote company, there is no fixed schedule. For the purpose of team communication, we do try to ensure at least 3 hours of overlap in the workday. You will be part of our Back Office Department, and your team manager is based in Switzerland.

Core to the establishment of the Open Home Foundation was the well-being of the people building the future of the smart home. We will provide all the benefits required by the country you reside in. However, we also want to make sure all our employees, regardless of country of origin, get at least a minimal set of benefits, including:

• Five weeks (twenty-five days) of paid time off.
• Fourteen days of paid sick leave if your country/laws treat them as unpaid.
• Six weeks of paid and six weeks of unpaid parental leave to be used in the first year after birth. We will provide the missing days if your country/laws do not provide such compensation.
• A budget for your work hardware once you start. After three years, you may keep this equipment for personal use.
• A monthly smart home budget to ensure you keep up-to-date with the latest that smart homes offer.
• A 50% contribution to your internet connection fee at your home workspace.
• If you are currently working on Home Assistant-related side projects, you can spend work time maintaining it.

When first offering a position to a new member, the Open Home Foundation aims to provide a total compensation package that matches the 75th percentile for the new hire’s role, seniority, and local market rates. For a full-time IT Engineer in our primary operating countries, the approximate yearly compensation will be the following:

• Netherlands: 74000 EUR
• Germany: 70000 EUR
• UK: 70000 GBP
• Spain: 51000 EUR
• France: 62000 EUR
• Other countries: compensation can be discussed during the first interview.

These figures may be adjusted based on experience, qualifications, and work hours.

About Us

The Open Home Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Switzerland, with the objective of fighting for the fundamental principles of privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart homes. It does this by supporting the development of open-source projects, and open connectivity and communication standards.

A big part of this is Home Assistant, the biggest open-source project in number of contributors, but the Open Home Foundation also owns or collaborates with other projects important to promoting privacy, choice, and sustainability in the smart home, like:

• Open hardware tools (e.g., ESPHome, ESP Web Tools)
• Open standards (e.g., Python Matter Server, Z-Wave JS, ZigPy, BTHome, Improv Wi-Fi)
• Open voice (e.g.,Rhasspy,Wyoming Protocol,Piper)

Compensation Range: €51K – €74K