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. Include a sentence about the chipmunks in your email — otherwise our bot filter will discard your application. Apply now