DevOps Engineer
Outstaff Hiring: Remote — Contract (Full-time, Long-term)
About the Role
We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to take ownership of cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, security, monitoring, and deployment architecture for an enterprise AI platform.
You will work closely with the CTO and engineering team to build and scale reliable infrastructure supporting AI-powered applications and agentic systems.
This is a hands-on role with significant ownership. You will help define infrastructure standards, improve deployment processes, and contribute to building the DevOps/Infrastructure function as the engineering organization grows.
Location: Remote (EU)
Engagement: Full-time / Long-term
Seniority: Senior / Lead Level
Responsibilities
- Own and develop GCP-based cloud infrastructure, including Cloud Run, GKE, IAM, DNS, VPCs, and Load Balancers.
- Design and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines supporting multiple applications and environments.
- Build and manage containerized and serverless production environments.
- Implement infrastructure automation using Terraform, Helm, and related Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
- Manage Kubernetes environments and deployment processes.
- Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Google Cloud Monitoring.
- Improve infrastructure reliability, scalability, performance, and availability.
- Implement security practices including access controls, secrets/key management, IAM, and environment isolation.
- Establish DevOps and infrastructure standards across engineering teams.
- Work directly with engineering leadership on infrastructure architecture and technical decisions.
- Mentor engineers and help grow the Infrastructure/DevOps team.
- Use modern AI development tools to improve engineering productivity and automation.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Cloud, or Infrastructure Engineering.
- At least 3 years in a technical leadership or infrastructure ownership role.
- Strong commercial experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Strong experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform and/or Helm.
- Strong knowledge of cloud-native and serverless architectures.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions and ArgoCD.
- Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or equivalent.
- Strong understanding of cloud networking, IAM, security, and access management.
- Experience building infrastructure from scratch or in zero-to-one environments.
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving environment with changing requirements.
- Strong ownership mindset and ability to work independently.
Nice to Have
- Experience working with AI/ML or Generative AI platforms.
- Familiarity with agentic AI workflows.
- Experience supporting RAG pipelines and vector databases.
- Familiarity with frameworks or architectures similar to LangChain.
- Experience supporting infrastructure for enterprise-scale AI applications.
- Previous experience in an early-stage or rapidly scaling technology company.
Tech Environment
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Kubernetes / GKE
- Cloud Run
- Terraform
- Helm
- GitHub Actions
- ArgoCD
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- ELK
- Google Cloud Monitoring
- Docker
- Java
- Python
- Go
- TypeScript
- Vector Databases
- AI / LLM infrastructure
What We Offer
- Long-term opportunity with a fast-growing technology company.
- Direct collaboration with senior engineering leadership.
- High level of technical ownership and influence over infrastructure architecture.
- Opportunity to build and improve infrastructure from an early stage.
- Work with modern cloud, DevOps, and AI technologies.
- Continuous learning and professional development opportunities.