Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Overview

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own the design, reliability, and evolution of InteractiveAI’s production infrastructure. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on ensuring our platform is secure, scalable, observable, and fast to ship. You’ll guide a small, high-impact team of DevOps/SRE engineers, raising standards for uptime, deployment velocity, and operational excellence across cloud and hybrid environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and evolve InteractiveAI’s core infrastructure (networking, compute, storage, Kubernetes, CI/CD) to support rapid product delivery


• Build and operate cloud-agnostic environments (Kubernetes) across VPC, on-prem, and hybrid deployments


• Implement and maintain CI/CD for services and infrastructure (GitOps preferred), enabling safe and frequent deployments


• Define “gold standards” for reliability: SLOs/SLIs, incident response, on-call practices, runbooks, and postmortems


• Establish robust observability (metrics, logs, traces) with actionable alerting and performance monitoring


• Drive infrastructure-as-code across environments (Terraform/Pulumi/CloudFormation), including strong review/testing practices


• Own security fundamentals: secrets management, IAM, network segmentation, vulnerability management, and compliance readiness


• Improve developer productivity with internal tooling, self-service environments, and paved paths


• Optimize costs and capacity planning across clusters and workloads (including bursty inference/agent workloads)


• Mentor and grow a small DevOps team, fostering ownership, quality, and pragmatic execution

Required Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure roles


• Proven track record operating production systems with strong reliability and incident management practices


• Strong expertise with Linux, networking fundamentals, and cloud infrastructure patterns


• Deep knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)


• Experience building and owning CI/CD pipelines for microservices and infrastructure


• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation)


• Strong scripting/coding ability (Python, Bash, Go, or similar)


• Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, etc.)


• Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure)

Additional Requirements (Nice to Have):

• Experience with service mesh, API gateways, or ingress at scale (Istio/Linkerd, NGINX, Envoy, etc.)


• Familiarity with security & compliance practices (GDPR, ISO 27001, SOC 2 readiness)


• Experience supporting GPU clusters or high-throughput compute workloads (a plus for AI platforms)


• Exposure to MLOps/LLM serving infrastructure and performance/cost optimization


• Prior experience leading or mentoring engineers (formally or informally)

Benefits

• Competitive base salary (€90,000/yr to €110,000/yr) + performance bonuses


• Access to equity/share plan as it rolls out


• Private health insurance


• Flexible work setup + travel when needed (hybrid in Lisbon or Madrid)


• 23 days PTO (excluding local public holidays)

About You

• Proactive & Strategic: You anticipate scaling challenges and design systems that won’t collapse under growth.


• Technical Leader: You raise the bar with strong engineering fundamentals, clarity, and high standards.


• Accountable & High-Ownership: You take responsibility for uptime, security, and delivery outcomes.


• Builder Mentality: You move fast in ambiguity while keeping production safe and predictable.


• Collaborative Partner: You communicate clearly, build trust across teams, and balance pragmatism with long-term vision.