Senior DevOps Engineer (Ref: 197453)

An early-stage, AI-driven technology company is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to help build and scale reliable, secure cloud infrastructure. This is a high-ownership role focused on infrastructure, automation and enabling engineering teams to deploy quickly and efficiently.

The company is building an AI-powered platform serving businesses across Europe, with a strong focus on innovation, automation and operational efficiency.

Location: Berlin, Germany

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable, secure cloud infrastructure.
• Own CI/CD pipelines end-to-end, driving continuous improvement and automation.
• Establish infrastructure-as-code practices across engineering teams.
• Collaborate with product and AI engineers to enable reliable and frequent deployments.
• Monitor system performance, manage incidents and lead post-mortems.
• Implement observability solutions across logs, metrics and traces.
• Maintain security and compliance standards across infrastructure.
• Balance immediate delivery with long-term architectural improvements.

Requirements

Experience & Mindset

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE or Cloud Infrastructure roles, ideally within a startup or scale-up.
• Proven experience owning infrastructure end-to-end and delivering measurable improvements.
• Comfortable working autonomously in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to simplify complex systems.
• Experience using AI coding tools such as Cursor, Copilot or Claude, with the ability to review and validate generated code.
• Experience in high-growth environments is advantageous.

Technical Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS or GCP.
• Containerisation and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes.
• CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, CircleCI or ArgoCD.
• Infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.
• Observability, monitoring, SLOs and incident management.
• Understanding of cloud security, authentication, secrets management and secure development practices.
• Python experience is advantageous.
• German language skills are a plus.

What’s on Offer

• High ownership and autonomy over infrastructure and technical decisions.
• Direct collaboration with senior engineering leadership and company founders.
• Access to advanced AI coding tools and internal resources supporting AI-driven development.
• Competitive salary and 28 days of annual leave.
• Choice of laptop and additional benefits, including pension, sports membership or public transport allowance.
• Modern Berlin office and a collaborative, ambitious engineering team.