Infrastructure Procurement Specialist; Fixed-term 10-month contract

Good analytics skills - necessary to evaluate offers, invoice accuracy and order fulfilment

Good negotiation skills - vital to negotiating vendor contracts

Working knowledge of server and data-center hardware: server CPUs (Intel Xeon / AMD EPYC), memory, storage media, RAID, networking gear (switches, NICs, transceivers), and rack

infrastructure — enough to read a spec sheet critically and challenge a vendor

Ability to compare hardware offers on a total-cost basis by sourcing public pricing and creating target pricing

Work that Matters:

millions of people trust Proton with their privacy. We answer only to our users — not advertisers, not investors with conflicting agendas, not governments. The work you do here is real, and the impact is measurable. (read more about our impact

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Stock Options:

at Proton, we all have the opportunity to be owners of the company. From day one, you have a real stake in what we're building. When Proton wins, you win.

We are looking for a Procurement Specialist, for our location in Skopje.

Your role will be to join the Proton Procurement team, responsible to serve the hardware, networking, and streaming infrastructure of the Proton infrastructure. As Proton scales up the procurement team is scaling up as well in order to serve the growing demands of the Proton Core and Proton VPN infrastructure teams. You would be part of the team that guarantees Proton's users are going to be served with an optimal and cost-efficient infrastructure. This includes monitoring potential flaws in servers that are already in use, following up with the infra team, and proactively focusing on establishing the long-term wellbeing of Proton VPN infrastructure. Together with the Procurement team that is already in place, you will be able to define strategies and create compelling solutions in regard to the demands of the Proton Team.

Own and execute strategic sourcing and vendor selection to serve the different particular

infrastructure needs

Taking part in Initial contact, screening, and establishment of a well-managed relationship with

Contributing to setting up and maintaining specifications, according to the analysis of the hardware