DevOps & Platform Engineer (German Speaking) – Remote 6‑Month Contract

About the role

You will own and evolve a cloud‑based AI platform, taking it from pre‑launch to a reliable, enterprise‑ready SaaS product. The role is fully remote and requires German language skills to support the client’s international team.

Key responsibilities

• Own and evolve the cloud platform architecture.
• Manage infrastructure as code using Terraform.
• Maintain development, staging, and production environments.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar).
• Deploy backend, frontend, and AI services.
• Operate infrastructure for AI agents and Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows.
• Manage PostgreSQL, Redis, object storage, and networking.
• Improve monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Strengthen security, IAM, secrets management, and backups.
• Troubleshoot production incidents.
• Define operational standards and runbooks.

Required profile

• 5+ years as a DevOps, Platform, SRE, or Cloud Engineer.
• Strong Terraform and Infrastructure‑as‑Code experience.
• Production cloud platform experience (Scaleway is a plus).
• Deep knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.
• Solid PostgreSQL administration skills.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar).
• Familiarity with managed cloud services.
• Experience with AI agent or RAG infrastructure is a plus.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, IAM, TLS, and secrets management.
• Pragmatic mindset with a strong sense of ownership.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Required skills

• Terraform
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• GitHub Actions (or similar CI/CD tool)
• Scaleway (or other major cloud providers)
• Cloud security, IAM, TLS, secrets management
• Monitoring and logging tools