Senior DevOps Engineer

About the role

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will own the infrastructure that runs Perspix in production — and inside customer perimeters. Our stack is built on Docker and Kubernetes, deployed on on-prem hardware and European private clouds. No hyperscaler dependency. Your job is to design, automate, and operate this stack for reliability, scale, and cost — while making customer deployments inside large industrial IT departments a non-event.

Key responsibilities

• Cluster operations: Run production Kubernetes clusters on on-prem hardware and private cloud — bare-metal, VMs, or hybrid setups.
• Automation & deployment: Build IaC (Terraform, Ansible) and GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux) pipelines for repeatable rollouts across environments.
• Image & supply-chain hygiene: Manage container images, registry, SBOMs, signing, and supply-chain provenance.
• Observability: Run Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and OpenTelemetry across the fleet — metrics, logs, traces.
• Security: Harden clusters, manage secrets, enforce network policies, and set up mTLS between services.
• Customer deployments: Work alongside customer IT and security teams to install Perspix inside their perimeter — often air-gapped or restricted-network environments.
• Documentation: Keep runbooks, architecture diagrams, and incident postmortems current.

Requirements

Education & experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years of hands-on DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineering experience, operating production Kubernetes.

Technical skills

• Kubernetes in anger: production experience with k8s, k3s, or kubeadm — on bare-metal, VMs, or private cloud, not just managed services.
• Containers: Docker, OCI image hygiene, multi-arch builds, image signing.
• IaC: Terraform, Ansible (or equivalent — Pulumi, Salt).
• GitOps: ArgoCD, Flux, or similar declarative deployment pipelines.
• Networking: ingress controllers, service mesh (Istio, Linkerd, or Cilium), mTLS, DNS.
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry.
• Automation language: comfort with at least one general-purpose language (Python, Go).

Soft skills

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills for cross-functional work.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Calm under incident pressure; bias toward writing things down.

Preferred

• Experience with bare-metal Kubernetes — provisioning, lifecycle management, hardware troubleshooting.
• Working with European cloud providers (Hetzner, OVH, IONOS, Scaleway) or pure on-prem deployments.
• Air-gapped or restricted-network rollouts inside large industrial IT departments.
• Security-review experience with enterprise buyers.

About Perspix.ai

Perspix.ai is a Karlsruhe-based AI company specializing in tailor-made AI solutions. Our focus is to create systems that process requirement documents and data more efficiently, transparently, and sustainably. We rely on cutting-edge technology and a deep understanding of our customers' challenges to deliver smart automation and analysis tools — simplifying complex processes and helping businesses operate in a resource-conserving, future-oriented way.

At Perspix.ai, we strive to make AI tangible for organizations of any size, so they can benefit from data-driven insight and thrive in an increasingly digital world.