Senior DevOps Engineer

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join an exciting project for our Fortune 500 client. The role involves building a repeatable deployment framework for enterprise AI and data applications. You will work on existing apps and make them portable, secure, scalable, and deployable within client-owned environments. You will define the deployment architecture, production hardening standards, CI/CD model, observability patterns, and environment templates required to move AI- and data-heavy applications from internal use to client production environments.

This is a remote-first contract position with a required overlap of US working hours (2-6 PM CET).

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, repeatable deployment frameworks for AI, data, and cloud-native applications.

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automated environment provisioning, and deployment workflows to ensure consistency across environments.

• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines that enable reliable, automated delivery across development, testing, staging, and production.

• Standardize application packaging and deployment models to enable seamless delivery into customer environments with minimal customization.

• Define and implement best practices for secrets and configuration management, identity and access management (IAM), networking, secure connectivity, observability, logging, monitoring, alerting, and release management.

• Improve production readiness by strengthening application resilience, scalability, security, runtime governance, and operational excellence.

• Observability Improvements: Enhance monitoring for services to improve system reliability.

• Scripting & Automation: Develop, implement, and maintain scripts to automate processes and reduce manual efforts.

Work Conditions

• Type: Full-time 3-month contract with high posibility of extension

• Start Date: ASAP

• Location: Remote (99%) in Europe; must be able to travel freely within Europe for workshops.

• US Time Zone Overlap: Required (2 PM - 6 PM CET)

• Contract with European LLC

• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or Platform Engineer, or Site Reliability Engineer.

• Experience with Azure cloud services, ideally Azure, with an understanding of infrastructure and networking concepts.

• Proven experience deploying enterprise web, data, or AI applications to production.

• Strong hands-on expertise with CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), containers, observability, secrets management, and secure deployment practices.

• Experience in productionizing prototypes, analytics, or AI solutions into scalable, reliable applications.

• Strong understanding of scalability, reliability, security, and operational best practices.

• Solid working knowledge of tools such as:

  • GitHub (including GitHub Actions and managing own action runners)

  • Terraform

  • Kubernetes

  • CloudBees Jenkins

  • SonarQube

  • GitHub Copilot

  • Grafana, Datadog..

  • Related technologies (Git, Maven, npm).

• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

• Excellent communication skills, ability to work in a team environment, and a commitment to continuous improvement.

Preferred Experience

• Familiarity with deploying analytics and AI applications, including APIs, services, data platforms, and AI-powered solutions.

• Experience preparing enterprise applications for secure, production-ready client deployments.

• Experience deploying applications across diverse customer environments and technology stacks.

• Exposure to data-intensive and AI-driven products with a focus on performance, scalability, and portability.