Senior DevOps Engineer (Backend Oriented)

A Defense-Tech company developing advanced AI and real-world technology is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer (Backend Oriented) to take ownership of its infrastructure and deployment environment. The role combines hands-on DevOps with real backend development, Docker, and production on-premises environments.

What You’ll Do:

Design, build, and own production infrastructure across on-premises and cloud environments, including customer deployments, upgrades, remote management, and recovery.

Build and maintain Dockerized services and multi-container deployments using Docker Compose.

Own CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, release processes, and deployment strategy from development through production.

Build observability across the stack, including monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational practices.

Manage GPU-based workloads and ensure AI workloads run reliably on real hardware.

Contribute to backend services and APIs, improving performance, data processing, database access, and real-time event handling.

Own networking, secrets management, security hardening, and infrastructure reliability.

Work closely with backend, ML, and product teams to improve scalability, deployment, and operational excellence.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform, or Infrastructure Engineering.

Strong hands-on backend development experience, preferably with Python.

Deep hands-on production experience with Docker and Docker Compose.

Real-world experience operating production systems on-premises, ideally on physical servers.

Strong experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, and with CI/CD and IaC tools such as Terraform or Ansible.

Strong Linux, networking, and system-level troubleshooting skills.

Production experience with PostgreSQL and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Loki.