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