DevOps & Platform Engineer - German Speaking - Remote Work - 6 Month Rolling Contract

The successful candidate will have ownership of my clients platform infrastructure and help take the AI platform from pre-launch to a reliable, enterprise-ready SaaS product.

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Your work enables the engineering team to deliver AI features quickly while keeping the platform secure, scalable, and easy to operate.

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Project Responsibilities

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Own and evolve our cloud platform

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Manage infrastructure with Terraform

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Maintain development, staging, and production environments

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Build and improve CI/CD pipelines

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Deploy backend, frontend, and AI services

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Operate infrastructure for AI agents and RAG workflows

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Manage PostgreSQL, Redis, object storage, and networking

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Improve monitoring, logging, and alerting

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Strengthen security, IAM, secrets, and backups

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Troubleshoot production issues

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Define operational standards and runbooks

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Must-haves

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5+ years as a DevOps, Platform, SRE, or Cloud Engineer

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Strong Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience

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Experience operating production cloud platforms (Scaleway is a plus)

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Strong Docker and Kubernetes experience

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Strong PostgreSQL administration experience

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Experience building CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar)

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Experience operating managed cloud services

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Experience supporting AI agent or RAG infrastructure is a plus

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Strong knowledge of cloud security, IAM, TLS, and secrets management

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Pragmatic mindset with a strong sense of ownership

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Excellent communication and collaboration skills

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Nice-to-have

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MongoDB and OpenSearch

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Vector databases (Qdrant, Weaviate, Milvus, Pinecone, pgvector)

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OIDC or identity infrastructure

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Infisical, PostHog, Oh Dear, or similar tooling

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AI / LLM platform experience

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GDPR-conscious cloud environments

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Enterprise security and compliance experience