Sovereign Engineering Platform SRE (DevOps Engineer) (m/f/d)

Job ID: 744000143255889

Sovereign Engineering Platform SRE (DevOps Engineer) (m/f/d)

Košice

Professional

Regular

Deutsche Telekom System Solutions Slovakia

Your Task

This role involves designing, building, and operating the secure infrastructure foundation used by Meridian engineering teams for AI-assisted software development, model experimentation, repository analysis, CI/CD execution, and controlled handover work in isolated or sovereignty-sensitive environments. This infrastructure and operations role centers on Kubernetes-based engineering platforms, GitOps, private registries, internal model endpoints, observability, access control, and reliable operations for AI-enabled SDLC workloads. The candidate should enable engineering velocity while preserving security, auditability, and operational discipline.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate Kubernetes environments that host AI engineering tools, internal model gateways, retrieval components, workflow services, CI/CD runners, and documentation services
• Implement GitOps and Infrastructure as Code patterns for reproducible provisioning, configuration, policy enforcement, platform upgrades, and disaster recovery readiness
• Manage private registries, package mirrors, secrets, identity integration, network segmentation, storage classes, backup routines, and controlled connectivity models
• Provide observability for engineering workloads, including metrics, logs, traces, GPU and CPU utilization, service health, cost signals, and operational runbooks
• Work with software, security, and architecture teams to ensure the platform supports AI-assisted SDLC workflows without creating uncontrolled data exposure or audit gaps
• Work with platform tooling such as Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD, Crossplane, GitLab runners, Jenkins agents, private registries, and internal package mirrors
• Work with AI platform components such as vLLM, Ollama, OpenAI-compatible gateways, Qdrant or similar vector stores, Open WebUI, Continue-compatible endpoints, and workflow services
• Utilize observability and operations stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, ELK/OpenSearch, Alertmanager, SRE runbooks, and incident management tooling
• Implement security and governance components such as Vault, Keycloak, network policies, RBAC, admission controls, image scanning, SBOM tooling, and audit logging
• Maintain infrastructure awareness covering GPU-backed nodes, CPU-only fallback, storage performance, network isolation, proxy patterns, on-premise environments, and dedicated landing zones

Your Profile

We are seeking a highly skilled Platform Engineer / SRE with extensive Kubernetes expertise, strong infrastructure operations background, and experience supporting AI-enabled engineering workloads in secure, sovereignty-sensitive environments.

Must Have Skills

• 5+ years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, or operations roles
• Strong Kubernetes expertise
• Strong Linux expertise
• Proven experience building and operating production-grade engineering platforms
• Experience with GitOps
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code
• Experience with observability
• Experience with operational runbooks
• Hands-on skills in Terraform
• Hands-on skills in Ansible
• Hands-on skills in Helm
• Hands-on skills in Python or shell scripting
• Hands-on skills with CI/CD runners
• Hands-on skills with private registries
• Hands-on skills in secure configuration management
• Good understanding of networking
• Good understanding of storage
• Good understanding of secrets management
• Good understanding of access control
• Good understanding of monitoring
• Good understanding of backup
• Good understanding of disaster recovery
• Good understanding of operational hardening in high-security environments
• Comfortable supporting AI-enabled engineering workloads in sovereignty-driven contexts
• Experience with isolation and controlled data handling
• Experience ensuring reliability and auditability in secure environments

About Us

Our brand Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Slovakia entered the life of Košice region in 2006 under the name of T-Systems Slovakia and ever since has been inextricably linked with the region when became one of the founding members of Košice IT Valley. We have managed to grow from scratch to the second largest employer in the eastern part of the country with more than 3900 employees. Our goal is to proactively find new ways to improve and continuously transform into the type of company providing innovative information and communication technology services.

Benefits

We believe in balance between work and personal life. An attractive and extensive work-life balance portfolio guarantees lasting motivation for employees and thus a better quality of life, promotes physical and mental well-being and contributes to a positive work environment.

We offer over 25 different benefits to improve personal and professional life in these areas:

• Financial benefits
• Benefits with focus on learning and development
• Benefits with focus on health and sport
• Benefits with focus on family and work-life balance
• Other benefits

For more information about our benefits: Benefits

Salary:

• Final salary is negotiable
• Base salary will not be lower than €2,100 gross
• Base salary depends on seniority level and previous experience
• Variable part and other financial benefits provided in addition to base salary

Company Policies

• Remote working possibility is only available within Slovakia due to European taxation regulation

Job Benefits

Financial

• Base salary not lower than €2,100 gross
• Variable compensation component
• Additional financial benefits

Work-Life Balance

• Attractive and extensive work-life balance portfolio
• Over 25 different benefits to improve personal and professional life
• Remote working possibility (within Slovakia)

Professional Development

Benefits with focus on learning and development

Lifestyle & Wellness

• Benefits with focus on health and sport
• Programs promoting physical and mental well-being

Family Support

Benefits with focus on family and work-life balance