Senior Systems Engineer (f/m/d)

Overview:

We are seeking an experienced Senior Systems Engineer to join our growing infrastructure team. As we advance our AI stack and scale our infrastructure, you will play a pivotal role in designing, maintaining, and optimising our systems. Your expertise will help ensure high availability, security, and performance while enabling seamless deployment for our customers and internal teams.

As a key technical team member, you will drive improvements across our infrastructure. Your contributions will be instrumental in shaping the future of our AI-powered solutions.

Your Responsibilities:

• Be part of the design, development, and optimisation of the Pharia AI stack and the supporting infrastructure.

• Help define best practices and guide teams in writing Helm charts and deploying their artefacts efficiently.

• Maintain highly available Kubernetes (K8s) clusters on StackIT or similar cloud platforms.

• You know how to design, build and maintain Kubernetes Operators.

• Provide strategic guidance and hands-on assistance to customers for deploying and maintaining our products on their infrastructure.

• Ensure compliance with security and reliability best practices; represent the team in audits and respond to security questionnaires.

• Drive automation efforts and improve CI/CD pipelines to enhance deployment efficiency and system resilience.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align infrastructure with business and product goals.

Your Profile:

• Extensive experience in designing, deploying, and maintaining Kubernetes clusters in production environments.

• Automation & CI/CD Expertise: Proficiency in tools such as Helm, Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD, GitLab CI, and JFrog.

• Experience with Kubernetes Operators design and implementation.

• Strong programming skills in at least one language from our stack: Rust or Go.

• Deep understanding of security, reliability, and scalability best practices for infrastructure.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of contributing to a culture of learning and innovation.

• Experience working in fast-paced startup environments is a plus.

What You Can Expect From Us:

• Become part of an AI revolution!

• 30 days of paid vacation

• Access to a variety of fitness & wellness offerings via Wellhub

• Mental health support through nilo.health

• Substantially subsidised company pension plan for your future security

• Subsidised Germany-wide transportation ticket

• Budget for additional technical equipment

• Flexible working hours for better work-life balance and hybrid working model

• Virtual Stock Option Plan